What does 2 Corinthians 12:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will comea to visions and revelations of the Lord."
2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 kauca/sqai dei/ {A} The difficulty of understanding the meaning of the verse led at an early date to various scribal emendations. The original text appears to be preserved in î46...
CHAPTER XII. _St. Paul mentions some wonderful revelations which he had_ _received from the Lord_, 1-5. _He speaks of his suffering in connection with these_ _extraordinary revelations, that his c...
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT - It is not well; it does not become me. This may either mean that he felt and admitted that it did not become him to boast in this manner; that there was an impropriety in his doi...
3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apo...
A SPECIAL REVELATION AND ITS SEQUEL. By an account of a great spiritual experience which he had enjoyed, Paul explains the reason why he has been called on to suffer, and the Divine interpretation of...
I must continue to boast. It is not good for me to do so, all the same I will come to visions and revelations given to me by the Lord. I know a man in Christ, who, fourteen years ago--whether it was i...
NOT. Greek. _ou_. App-105. GLORY. Greek. _kauchaomai._ See Romans 2:19. I WILL. But. will. TO. unto. Greek. _eis_. App-104. VISIONS. Greek. _optasia._ See Acts 26:19 REVELATIONS. Greek. _apokalup...
2 Corinthians 12:1-6. The Visions and Revelations vouchsafed to St Paul 1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come_ The Greek text here is in the most utter confusion. Out of the...
1. The text of this difficult verse is in exceptional confusion, the result of accidental mistakes and conjectural emendations. About ΕἸΣ ὈΠΤΑΣΊΑΣ … ΚΥΡΊΟΝ there is no doubt; but in the first half of...
_A VISION OF PARADISE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-6:_ Paul felt that there was nothing to be gained by his boasting. He said that he would only tell them about the visions and revelations that he had received...
ΚΑΥΧΆΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться. Дополнительный _inf._ при последующем безличном гл. _Praes._ указывает на последующее действие: "я должен продолжать хвастаться" (Ma...
I WILL COME TO VISIONS, &C.— The Apostle's speaking of his _visions_ and _revelations,_ which, indeed, did him the highest honour, could not be a proof that he was determined not to vindicate himself:...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Weaknesses in the Body (2 Corinthians 12:1-10 12 I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2I know a man...
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. He illustrates the 'glorying in infirmities' (2 Corinthians 11:30). He gave one instance which mig...
20 Paul's patient and forbearing behavior among them was in striking contrast to the course of his detractors. They treated the Corinthians like slaves, while Paul served them like a slave. They devou...
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT, etc.] RV 'I must needs glory though it is not expedient'; i.e. in self-defence....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
XII. (1) IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO GLORY. I WILL COME... — The English “doubtless” corresponds to a Greek illative particle. _To boast, then, is not expedient for me._ The MSS., however...
CHAPTER 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are partly connected with its form, partly with its substance: it will...
With Tisch., W.H. and the R.V. we adopt the reading (see crit. notes): καυχᾶσθαι δεῖ · οὐ συμφέρον μέν, ἐλεύσομαι δὲ κ. τ. λ.: _I must needs glory, though it is not expedient_ (_sc._, my opponents dri...
THE SECRET OF STRENGTH 2 Corinthians 12:1 It is a sublime phrase- _a man in Christ._ We reach our full stature only when we are in Him. We are but fragments of manhood until the true man is formed i...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...
Because of the false teachers, Paul continued boasting, though such would not ordinarily be desirable. The visions of which he spoke would have been given by God, while revelations were used to expose...
It (1) is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. (1) He continues in his purpose, and because those braggarts boasted of revelations, he reckons...
_If I must glory. St. Paul in the whole of this discourse shews the repugnance he had of speaking in his own praise, and that if he did it, it was only through constraint, and for the advantage of the...
CONTENTS Paul is here speaking of Visions and Revelations, with which the Lord favored him. He speaks of his Infirmities. 2 Corinthians 12:1 (1) It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I wil...
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...
1._It is not expedient for me to glory _Now, when as it were in the middle of the course, he restrains himself from proceeding farther, and in this way he most appropriately reproves the impudence of...
Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT DOUBTLESS FOR ME TO GLORY,.... Though it was lawful for him to glory, and was necessary in the present circumstances of things, in vindication of himself, and to preserve the Corin...
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. Ver. 1. _It is not expedient for me_] Because it carries a show at least of pride and folly; and Chr...
After enumerating, in the former chapter, his almost incredible labours and sufferings for the gospel, the apostle, in this, proceeds to speak of some visions and revelations that had been made to him...
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO GLORY; for him to state further with regard to his labors and sufferings. REVELATIONS; which the Lord made to him of the glories of heaven....
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO GLORY. I WILL COME TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS OF THE LORD....
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
1-6 There can be no doubt the apostle speaks of himself. Whether heavenly things were brought down to him, while his body was in a trance, as in the case of ancient prophets; or whether his soul was d...
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 12 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Paul showeth that, though he had been favoured with visions and revelations, 2 CORINTHIANS 12:5 yet for commendation of his apostleship he chose rather to g...
I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. [I feel constrained to go on with my boosting, though I recognize that it is not expedient for m...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third Hear, then, the parables of the tower; for I will reveal all to you, and give me no more trouble in regard to revelation: for these revelations have an end, for they h...
2 Corinthians 12:1 is G4851 doubtless G1211 not G3756 profitable G4851 (G5719) me G3427 boast G2744 (G5738) G1063 come G2064 (G5695) to G1519 visions G3701 and G2532 revelations G602 Lord G2962 exped...
‘I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.' His glorying must necessarily go on in order to combat his opponents, even though in other ci...
_Visions and_ _Revelations,_ 1 - 10. 2 Corinthians 12:1. I MUST NEEDS GLORY, THOUGH IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT; [1] BUT I WILL COME TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS: ‘Distasteful it is to continue in a strain so...
I MUST NEEDS GLORY (καυχασθα δε). This is the reading of B L Latin Syriac, but Aleph D Bohairic have δε while K M read δη. The first is probably correct. He must go on with the glorying already beg...
2 Corinthians 12:1 Visions and Revelations. The words carry us at once to an age of miracle. They place us in the midst of a time when the eye and the ear were each occasionally opened to sights and...
CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to b...
2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
I HAVE TO BOAST. Paul personally feels the whole thing of boasting is a waste of time! Yet he must go on with it, because he must destroy false arguments and pull down proud obstacles. ABOUT VISIONS A...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity, Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corin...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11, 2 Corinthians 12:12)...
It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...
1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 John 5:20; 2 Corinthians 11:16; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 8:10; Acts 18:9; Acts 22:17
Revelations [α π ο κ α λ υ ψ ε ι ς]. See on Revelation 1:1....
It is not expedient — Unless on so pressing occasion. Visions are seen; revelations, heard....
That is, "I acknowledge it neither decent nor advantageous, with respect to myself, to go on in farther boasting and glorying; but since it may be necessary with respect to you,. will declare what vis...