2 Corinthians 13:12

_GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

11-14 Here are several good exhortations. God is the Author of peace and Lover of concord; he hath loved us, and is willing to be at peace with us. And let it be our constant aim so to walk, that separation from our friends may be only for a time, and that we may meet in that happy world where parting will be unknown. He wishes that they may partake all the benefits which Christ of his free grace and favour has purchased; the Father out of his free love has purposed; and the Holy Ghost applies and bestows....

Verse 2 Corinthians 13:12. _GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH A HOLY KISS._] Use every means by which a _good understanding_ may be brought about. Let the _spirit_ of _friendship_ live among you, and encourage its continuance by every _friendly act_. Romans 16:16, Romans 16:16....

GREET - Salute; see the note, Romans 16:3. WITH AN HOLY KISS - note, Romans 16:16....

CONCLUDING APPEALS AND EXHORTATIONS, EXPOSITION 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1 THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AM COMING TO YOU. I have thrice formed the intention, though the second time I had to forego my plan (2 Corinthians 1:15). IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. The quotation is from Deuteronomy 19:15. It has been explained as a reference to _examinations _which he intended to hold on his arrival at Corinth. It is much more probable that St. Paul is representing his separate visits as separate _attestations _to the truths which he preache

GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS. Romans 16:16....

4. STILL ABSENT - YET COMING. THE CONCLUSION. CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Being Absent; Expecting to Come. (2 Corinthians 13:1 .)_ 2. The Conclusion. (2 Corinthians 13:11 .) He speaks in conclusion of his coming to them. “This third time I am coming to you.” And when he comes again he will not spare them. He reminds them once more of their doubtings about Christ speaking in him and using him as an apostle. They themselves were proof of this. If it were that Christ had not spoken to them through him (by preaching the Gospel), then Christ also did not dwell in them. But if Christ really was in them then it was an evidence that Christ had spoken by him. Notice that part of the third verse and the fourth verse are parenthetical. Leaving out the parenthetical words

The closing verses betray no trace of the passionate anxiety, the mingled self-abasement end self-assertion, which have marked the preceding Chapter s. Their precepts appear to be addressed to a people among whom calm has been established, and so to belong more naturally to chs. 1- 9, the last of Paul's letters to the Corinthians. [107] [107] 2 Corinthians 2:3 seems to presuppose 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 1:23 looks back to 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Corinthians 2:9 and...

A WARNING, A WISH, A HOPE AND A BLESSING (2 Corinthians 13:1-14) 13 For the third time I am coming to you. Everything will be established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. To those who have already sinned and to all others I have already said, and I now say, just as I said it when I was with you on my second visit, now I say it while I am absent, that if I come to you again, I will not spare you. I will take decisive action because you are looking for a proof that Christ really is speaking in me, Christ who is not weak where you are concerned, but who is powerful among you. True, he was crucified in weakness, but he is alive by the power of God. Keep testing yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Keep proving yourselves. Or do you not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you--unless in any way you are rejected? But we pray to God that you should do no evi

GREET. Salute. Greek. aspazomai. See Acts 20:1. WITH. Greek. _en_. App-104....