What does 2 Corinthians 4:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
Verse 17. _FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION_, c.] Mr. Blackwall, in his sacred classics, has well illustrated this passage. I shall here produce his paraphrase as quoted by _Dr. Dodd_: "This is one of the mo...
FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION - This verse, with the following, is designed to show further the sources of consolation and support which Paul and his fellow-laborers had in their many trials. Bloomfield re...
5. THE CHARACTER OF THE TRUE MINISTRY. CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Gospel of the Glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:1)_ 2. The Treasure in Earthen Vessels; Weakness and Power. (2 Corinthians 4:7) 3. Resurre...
It is true that the splendid character of this ministry is for the present obscured by the earthly and physical conditions under which it is discharged. Paul is conscious that this disability is speci...
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)...
OUR LIGHT, &c. Literally the momentary lightness of our affliction. LIGHT. Greek. _elaphros._ Only here and Matthew 11:30. Compare "lightness", 2 Corinthians 1:17. AFFLICTION. Greek. _thlipsis_ as i...
_For our light affliction, which is but for a moment_ Literally, FOR THE MOMENTARY LIGHTNESS OF OUR AFFLICTION. The argument is advanced another step. Not only have we this inner fount of strength and...
16–18. He has just said how his _faith_ sustains him. Without using the word, he now expresses his steadfast _hope_. The balanced antitheses, verse by verse, give this passage something of the rhythm...
_AN ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18:_ Paul would never give up. He did not just become exhausted and wearied and faint. There was resistance to his message, but he would not faint. He si...
ΠΑΡΑΥΤΊΚΑ (G3910) кратковременный. Обозначает короткий промежуток текущего времени, имеется в виду время до завершения жизни или прихода Господа (Plummer; Windisch). ΈΛΑΦΡΌΣ (G1645) легкий, не тяжелы...
DISCOURSE: 2016 THE CHRISTIAN’S EXPERIENCE IN AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 4:17. _Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while w...
FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION,— This is one of the most emphatical passages in St. Paul's writings; in which he speaks as much like an orator as an Apostle. The lightness of the trial is expressed by Το ελ...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's View Of His Ministry Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 4:7-18. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from...
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; WHICH IS BUT FOR A MOMENT, [ to (G3588) parautika (G3910)] - 'which is but for...
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
4:17 light (c-5) Lit. 'the momentary lightness of our.'...
1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God. 1, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim it b...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 God in his *mercy has given us this work to do. As a result, we do not lose hope. V2 We do not do things in secret a...
FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION... — More accurately, _the present lightness of our affliction._ This is at once more literally in accord with the Greek, and better sustains the balanced antithesis of the cl...
CHAPTER 12 THE VICTORY OF FAITH. 2 Corinthians 4:7 (R.V) IN the opening verses of this chapter Paul has magnified his office, and his equipment for it. He has risen to a great height, poetic and spi...
HE IS SUSTAINED BY A GLORIOUS HOPE....
THE INWARD LIFE TRIUMPHANT OVER AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 4:7 Few men have been more conscious of their weakness than was the Apostle. The earthen vessel had become very cracked and scratched, but the...
Continuing about the ministry, the apostle said, "We faint not," "we have renounced the hidden things of shame," "we preach... Christ Jesus as Lord." Hearing, some perish because "the god of this worl...
A PROPER VIEW OF SUFFERING Since he believed death would be followed by a resurrection, and his suffering brought God glory, Paul did not give up hope and quit fighting. While the physical body was g...
For our (p) light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of (q) glory; (p) Afflictions are not called light, as though they were light in them...
_Worketh. In the Greek, Greek: katergazetai, which the English Bible of the year 1577 falsely renders by prepareth, unwilling to allow, with the apostle, that tribulation worketh eternal glory. The ar...
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the d...
_AN ESTIMATE OF SUFFERING_ ‘Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at th...
17._Momentary lightness. _As our flesh always shrinks back from its own destruction, whatever reward may be presented to our view, and as we are influenced much more by present feeling than by the hop...
Having received this ministry of righteousness and of the Spirit, the foundation of which was Christ glorified beheld with open face, he not only used great boldness of speech, but his zeal was not ab...
FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION,.... The difference between the present and future state of the saints is here expressed, the disparity between them shown, and the influence the one has upon the other. The p...
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding _and_ eternal weight of glory; Ver. 17. _For our light affliction_] Here we have an elegant antithesis, and a...
_For which cause_ Because of which abounding grace that supports us; _we faint not_ Under any of our present pressures; _but though our outward man_ The body; _perish_ Be worn out and brought to dust...
How the apostle rose above every handicap:...
Chapter s 4 and 5 now show some of the precious, practical results of this ministry, seen in those entrusted with it; for it is such a ministry itself that works powerfully in them to enable them to c...
13-18 The grace of faith is an effectual remedy against fainting in times of trouble. They knew that Christ was raised, and that his resurrection was an earnest and assurance of theirs. The hope of t...
The apostle in these words wonderfully lesseneth his own, and the rest of the apostles, and all other Christians sufferings for the gospel: he calleth them LIGHT, not that they were so in themselves,...
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly [Literally, in excess unto excess: a Hebraism: a method of expressing intensity by repetition of the same wo...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh says: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for as a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the thing...
2 Corinthians 4:17 For G1063 our G2257 light G1645 affliction G2347 which G3588 moment G3910 working G2716 (G5736) us G2254 far G2596 G5236 exceeding G1519 G5236 eternal G166 weight G922 glory G1391...
CONSIDERATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO COVENANTS (2 CORINTHIANS 4:12) Having been described as earthen vessels, the practical application of this is now made. As earthen vesse...
2 Corinthians 4:17. FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION, WHICH IS BUT FOR THE MOMENT only temporary and but momentary, WORKETH FOR US MORE AND MORE EXCEEDINGLY AN ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY; WHILE WE LOOK that is,...
OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION WHICH IS FOR THE MOMENT (το παραυτικα ελαφρον της θλιπεσεως ημων). Literally, "the for the moment (old adverb παραυτικα, here only in N.T.) lightness (old word, in N.T. only he...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the wor...
CONTENTS: Truth taught, commended by the life. The preaching of the Lordship of Christ. The suffering of true ministers with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: A steadfast adherence...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Seeing we have this ministry,_ of grace and reconciliation to a guilty world; the ministry of righteousness, not of condemnation; the ministry of life, and not of death; we have li...
For WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY_._ Dual manhood I. There is a duality in Christian manhood. The apostle was not only a great...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 Earlier, Paul’s suffering was a burden too heavy to carry (2 Corinthians 1:8). Now it is a LIGHT MOMENTARY AFFLICTION in view of the ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY BE...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. From what was said in the last chapter of the glory and honour belonging to the office of a preacher of the Gospel, S. Paul proceeds to assert that he discharges...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 4:8.—“Pressed for room, and still having room” (Stanley). “Perplexed, but not utterly perplexed” (Beet). Apparent, not real, contradiction to 2 Corinthians 1:8 (same wo...
EXPOSITION The glory of the gospel ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), which sustains the hearts of Christ's ministers among all weaknesses and trials (2 Corinthians 4:7), especially by the faith in things...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), What ministry? Pointing people to Jesus Christ. as we have received mercy, we faint not; But [we] have renounced the hidden things of dish...
1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 1:8; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18;...
Our light affliction which is but for a moment [τ ο π α ρ α υ τ ι κ α ε λ α φ ρ ο ν τ η ς θ λ ι ψ ε ω ς η μ ω ν]. Lit., the present light (burden) of our affliction. Worketh [κ α τ ε ρ γ α ζ ε τ α ι]...
Our light affliction — The beauty and sublimity of St. Paul's expressions here, as descriptive of heavenly glory, opposed to temporal afflictions, surpass all imagination, and cannot be preserved in a...
Still our apostle proceeds in assigning reasons why all the afflictions which himself and others met with, were not only tolerable, but joyous; namely, because, 1. His afflictions were light: 2. Bec...