2 Corinthians 3:2
What meaning of the 2 corinthians 3:2 in the Bible?
What does 2 Corinthians 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:"
What does 2 Corinthians 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:"
2 CORINTHIANS 3:2 h`mw/n (2) {A} Although u`mw/n is read by several witnesses (a 33 88 436 1881 ethro), in view of the overwhelming support for h`mw/n (î46 A B C D G K P Y 614 1739 _Byz Lect_ it vg...
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:2. _YE ARE OUR EPISTLE_] I bear the most ardent love to you. I have no need to be put in remembrance of you by any epistles or other means; _ye are written in my heart _- I have...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE - compare 1 Corinthians 9:2. This is a most beautiful and happy turn given to the whole subject. The sense is plain. It is, that the conversion of the Corinthians, under the faithfu...
4. THE MINISTRY OF THE NEW COVENANT IN CONTRAST WITH THE OLD. CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Epistle of Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:1)_ 2. The True Sufficiency. (2 Corinthians 3:4) 3. The Old and New Ministry Co...
2 Corinthians 3:1 to 2 Corinthians 4:10. THE SPLENDOUR OF THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY IN SPITE OF ITS OUTWARD LOWLINESS. 2 Corinthians 3:1. One of the charges laid against Paul had probably been that of ov...
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely you do not think that we need--as some people need--letters of commendation neither to you or from you? You are our letter, written on our hearts, k...
WRITTEN. Cr. _engrapho._ Only here and 2 Corinthians 3:3. IN. Greek. _en_, App-104. KNOWN. Greek _ginosko._ App-132. READ. Greek _anaginosko._ There is. _Paronomasia_ here, App-6. OF. by. Greek. _...
_Ye are our epistle_ See note on last verse. _written in our hearts_ -Others bear their letters of commendation in their hands, we in our consciences, being fully aware that the existence of the Churc...
1–6. These opening verses deal with a difficulty which had been growing at Corinth. He was so often obliged to speak of himself and his authority, that he laid himself open to the sneering reminder th...
_EPISTLES WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS 2 CORINTHIANS 3:1-5:_ At the close of 2 Corinthians two Paul said some good things about himself. "For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved,...
ΕΓΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΗ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΈΓΓΡΆΦΩ (G1449) вписывать, надписывать. _Adj. part._ в роли praed. _adj._ ΚΑΡΔΊΑΙΣ ΉΜΏΝ (G2588) в наших сердцах. Ссылка на собственное сердце Павла (Baird) или сер...
DISCOURSE: 2005 CHRISTIANS ARE EPISTLES OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 3:2. _If are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE, &C.— "I may well say, that you are yourselves our epistle, the best recommendation from God himself; his testimonial, as it were, written upon _your hearts,_ in the glorious change...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 It Dooms The Soul (2 Corinthians 3:1-6) 3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2You y...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: OUR LETTER - of recommendation. WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS - not borne merely in the hands. Though this living letter be written b...
21 The operation of God's Spirit is here seen under three distinct figures: the anointing, the seal, and the earnest. Prophets and priests and kings were anointed for their office. They were anointed...
3:2 read (d-11) The Greek means also 'well known;' a thing read of all, not private. There is a play on words, giving force to the statement. 'read' being a compound of 'know.' see ch. 1.13....
PARAPHRASE. 'In speaking thus highly of my motives I am not writing a letter to commend myself, nor do I need (like these opponents of mine) letters of recommendation either to you or from you. (2) Yo...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 V1 But we are not trying to recommend ourselves. And we do not need letters to recommend us, like some people. V2 You ar...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS. — This is an answer. They, the Corinthian converts, are written on his heart. In his thoughts and prayers for them he finds his true commendatory letter, and...
CHAPTER 8 LIVING EPISTLES. 2 Corinthians 3:1 (R.V) "ARE we beginning again to commend ourselves?" Paul does not mean by these words to admit that he had been commending himself before: he means that...
THE CORINTHIANS ARE ST. PAUL'S “EPISTLE OF COMMENDATION”....
THE SAVOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 3:1 Paul, in 2 Corinthians 2:14, imagines himself as part of his Master's procession passing through the world. First he is a ca...
The apostle declared that the Church is the supreme credential of the power of the ministry. The Corinthian Christians are "known and read of all men." This, however, was not the deepest truth. They w...
PAUL'S LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION It seems Paul was criticized for using personal examples in his first epistle. The apostle makes it clear that he needs neither boasting nor letters of commendation as...
_You are our epistle, better, and of greater force, than any commendatory epistle, written and engraven in my heart, by the love and affection I bear you. You may also be looked upon as the epistle of...
(1) Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? (2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and re...
2._Ye are our Epistle. _There is no little ingenuity in his making his own glory hinge upon the welfare of the Corinthians. “So long as you shall remain Christians, I shall have recommendation enough....
These words give rise to an exposition of the gospel in contrast with the law, which the false teachers mixed up with the gospel. He gives this exposition with the most touching appeal to the heart of...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE,.... Here a reason is given why they stood in no need of letters of commendation, to or from the church at Corinth, because that church was their living epistle, and which was much...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Ver. 2. _You are our epistle_] The fruitfulness of the people is the preacher's testimonial; as the profiting of the scholar is th...
_Do we begin again_ While we thus speak and avow our integrity; _to commend_ Or recommend; _ourselves_ As some insinuate we do? Is it needful to do so? have we nothing but our own word to recommend us...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE; his letter of commendation, which all could read. He says here, "written in our hearts," because he wishes thus to express the place which the Corinthian converts have in his affec...
THE GLORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT MINISTRY. The apostle's letter of commendation:...
Did the Corinthians assume that Paul was merely commending himself or defending himself in penning the last verse of chapter 2? It was not so; but necessity demanded that they should recognize that he...
1-11 Even the appearance of self-praise and courting human applause, is painful to the humble and spiritual mind. Nothing is more delightful to faithful ministers, or more to their praise, than the s...
Your Christianity, and embracing of the gospel of Christ, your fiath and holiness, are instead of an epistle to me, to let the world know, both with what faithfulness, and with what blessing of God, a...
Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;...
2 Corinthians 3:2 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) our G2257 epistle G1992 written G1449 (G5772) in G1722 our G2257 hearts G2588 known G1097 (G5746) and G2532 read G314 (G5746) by G5259 all G3956 men G444...
‘Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men, it being reve...
2 Corinthians 3:2. YE ARE OUR EPISTLE. ‘Your conversion is our letter recommendatory' not needing to be carried about and produced with the hand, but WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS. Cf. 1 Corinthians 9:2, “The...
YE ARE OUR EPISTLE (η επιστολη ημων υμεις εστε). Bold turn. Paul was writing in their hearts.KNOWN AND READ (γινωσκομενη κα αναγινωσκομενη). Play on the word. Literally true. Professing Christian...
2 Corinthians 3:1 I. There is a peculiar writing on the tablet of the Christian's soul. The old covenant, with its precepts and penalties, was engraven upon slabs of stone; but the new covenant, with...
CONTENTS: The ministry of Christ accredited. Its spiritual and glorious character. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Moses. CONCLUSION: True ministers are Christ's instruments, for He is t...
2 Corinthians 3:1. _Do we begin again to commend ourselves?_ A happy mode of recovery, as though he had slidden unawares into self-applause, when contrasting his ministry with that of false teachers....
YOU YOURSELVES. The existence of the messianic community at Corinth is the only credential which Paul needs! WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS. _MacKnight_ says it is best to understand this as the letter itself...
_Do we begin again to commend ourselves?_ or need we … epistles of commendation? A PASTOR’S CLAIM 1. The voluntary relations of men are founded upon mutual confidence, and even those which are invo...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 3:1 Paul makes it clear that, as an apostle, he was called to mediate the Spirit in fulfillment of the new covenant. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagNa...
CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul asserts that he does not seek or need the praise of men, as the Judaising false apostles sought it: the fruit of his preaching is, he says, sufficient co...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ N.B. A _continuous outpour_ of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, _from_ 2 Corinthians 2:17 _to_ 2 Corinthians 6:10. 2 Corinthians 3:1.—_...
EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need (2 Corinthians 3:1). His sufficiency comes from God (2 Corinthians 3:4), who has made him minister of a cove...
Shall we turn tonight to the third chapter of II Corinthians. Paul the apostle, it seemed, had the detractors to his ministry, men that followed him around seeking to discredit him. There are always t...
1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 9:1; 1 Corinthians 9:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:11; 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 7:3; Philippians 1:7;...
Our epistle. The figure which follows is freely and somewhat loosely worked out, and presents different faces in rapid succession. The figure itself is that of a commendatory letter representing the C...
Ye are our recommendatory letter — More convincing than bare words could be. Written on our hearts — Deeply engraven there, and plainly legible to all around us....