What does 2 Corinthians 10:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's lineh of things made ready to our hand."
Verse 16. _TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE_ REGIONS _BEYOND YOU_] He probably refers to those parts of the _Morea_, such as _Sparta_, c., that lay _southward_ of them and to _Italy_, which lay on the _wes...
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU - What regions are referred to here can be only a matter of conjecture. It may be that he wished to preach in other parts of Greece, and that he designed...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
PREACH THE GOSPEL Greek. _euangetizo._ App-121. IN. unto. Greek. _eis,_ as above. BEYOND. Greek. _huperekeina._ Only here. ANOTHER MAN'S. Greek. _allotrios,_ as in 2 Corinthians 10:15. LINE. Same...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out. Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely, because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...
_SEEKING TO BE APPROVED OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15-18:_ Paul did not brag about the work others had done in the kingdom. He did not try to take credit for their work. His desire was that these brethre...
ΎΠΕΡΈΚΕΙ ΝΑ (G5238) перед; то есть "земли, которые лежат перед вами" (BAGD; RG, 297). ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΣΑΣΘΑΙ _aor. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΩ (G2097) провозглашать благую весть, проповедовать евангелие,...
DISCOURSE: 2038 THE FAITHFUL MINISTER’S DESIRES 2 Corinthians 10:15. _Having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the Gospe...
NOT BOASTING, &C.— That is, "Not intermeddling, or assuming to myself an authority to meddle, or any honour for doing so." St. Paul here visibly taxes the false Apostle for coming into a church conver...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. TO - i:e., so as to preach ... beyond you (and) not to boast, etc. IN ANO...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinth...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU. — It is clear, from Romans 15:19, that he is thinking (1) of Western Greece, (2) of Rome, (3, and chiefly) of Spain. There, apparently, he could hope to...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
VERSE 16 Paul intended to go on and establish churches in other lands needing the gospel when he finished at Corinth. he did not need to seize someone else's work as his opponents had done....
To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in (n) another man's line of things made ready to our hand. (n) In countries which other men have prepared and cultivated with the...
The words, measure, rule, &c. signify through the whole of this chapter a share, or an allotment of any place to cultivate. St. Paul never gloried like the persons whom he is here blaming, that he ent...
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
_CONCERNING THE COLLECTION_ ‘For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: not boasting...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU,.... Here the apostle clearly expresses what he hoped for, and explains what he meant by being enlarged according to rule; namely, that he should be at l...
To preach the gospel in the _regions_ beyond you, _and_ not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. Ver. 16. _In the regions beyond you_] This was a piece of the braggadocio...
_We stretch not_, &c. In preaching at Corinth, we do not, like the false teacher, go out of our line, as _not reaching to you; but we are come_ even _as far as you_ By a gradual, regular process, havi...
TO PREACH; that is, so as to preach, as the result of this enlargement. BEYOND YOU; to the heathen farther west, who had never heard the gospel. IN ANOTHER MAN'S LINE; in another man's field of labo...
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
LINE: Or, rule...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his m...
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU; the apostle here expoundeth what he meaneth by the term magnified, or _enlarged, _ in the preceding verse, viz. to have a door opened to preach the gosp...
so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand. [Though God gave us so vast a bishopric, we indeed filled so mu...
2 Corinthians 10:16 gospel G2097 (G5670) in G1519 beyond G5238 you G5216 not G3756 boast G2744 (G5664) in G1722 mans G245 sphere G2583 of G1519 accomplishment G2092 preach - Romans 15:24-28 rule - 2...
‘For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not to you, for we came even as far as to you in the gospel of Christ, not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, bu...
EVEN UNTO THE PARTS BEYOND YOU (εις τα υπερεκεινα υμων). Compound adverb (υπερ, εκεινα, beyond those places) used as preposition. Found only here and in ecclesiastical writers.THINGS READY TO OUR H...
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own in...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
THEN WE. (1) It was the special mission of the apostles to proclaim the Good News in areas where it had not yet gone; (2) They were not to neglect any country, but to proceed from country to country....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
2 Corinthians 10:13; Romans 15:24...
In another man's line [ε ν α λ λ ο τ ρ ι ω κ α ν ο ν ι]. Line is the word previously rendered rule. He will not boast within the line drawn for another; in another's field of activity. 155...
In the regions beyond you — To the west and south, where the gospel had not yet been preached....