Verse 17. _HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD._] Instead of boasting or exulting even in your own success in preaching the Gospel, as none can be successful without the especial blessing of...
BUT HE THAT GLORIETH - He that boasts. Whatever may be the occasion of his boasting, whether in planting churches or in watering them; whether in his purposes, plans, toils, or success. Paul himself d...
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)...
Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
GLORIETH. Same as boast, 2 Corinthians 10:8. The quotation is from Jeremiah 9:24. LORD. App-98....
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...
_But he that glorieth_ See note on 2 Corinthians 10:8. This passage occurs in 1 Corinthians 1:31, where it is prefaced by the words -it is written." It is in fact a paraphrase of Jeremiah 9:24. Meyer...
Ὁ ΔῈ ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΣ. _But_, even in reference to a man’s own work in his own proper sphere, there is only one right way of glorying; _he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord_, who assigned him the wor...
_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...
ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться. Subst. part. подчеркивает особенность, ΚΑΥΧΆΣΘΩ _aor. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ....
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...
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...
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...
10:17 Lord. (d-10) See 1 Corinthians 1:31 ....
PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
(_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 Corinthi...
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...
HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. — Better, _He that boasteth,_ the English translators having again yielded to their besetting weakness for variation. On the general meaning of the phrase,...
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 ε...
ὁ δὲ καυχώμενος κ. τ. λ.: _but he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord_, a quotation from the O.T. (see reff.) used before by St. Paul (_cf._ also Romans 15:18; 1 Corinthians 3:7). _For not he tha...
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 a...
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 17 This rule comes from Jeremiah 9:23-24. Paul gave all the glory for his success to the Lord, unlike those challenging him....
(6) But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (6) He somewhat moderates that which he spoke of himself, and in so doing also prepares the Corinthians to hear other things, witnessing that he s...
(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...
17._But he that glorieth _This statement is made by way of correction, as his glorying might be looked upon as having the appearance of empty boasting. Hence he cites himself and others before the jud...
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...
BUT HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. Not in himself, nor in his outward circumstances of life, or inward endowments of mind; not in his natural or acquired parts; not in his wisdom, knowle...
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Ver. 17. _Glory in the Lord_] _See Trapp on "_ 1Co 1:31 _"_...
_But he that glorieth_ Whether it be of planting or watering the churches; _let him glory in the Lord_ Not in himself, but in the power, love, and faithfulness of the Lord, who only can render any man...
IN THE LORD; acknowledging him as the Author of all good....
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
BUT HE THAT GLORIES, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD....
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...
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...
But we have none of us any thing to glory in, neither I Paul who plant, nor Apollos who watereth; whether God maketh use of us as the first planters of the gospel, or as instruments to carry on the wo...
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. [Paul here gives the rule of boasting as condensed from Jeremiah 9:23-24. Paul's enemies had not observed this rule; he had. In 2 Corinthians 10:5 he a...
1 Clement Let us therefore, brethren, be of humble mind, laying aside all haughtiness, andpride, and foolishness, and angry feelings; and let us act according to that which iswritten (for the Holy Sp...
2 Corinthians 10:17 But G1161 glories G2744 (G5740) glory G2744 (G5737) in G1722 LORD G2962...
‘But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.' In context this is not just a general statement, true and right though such a general statement might be. It is applicable to what he has been saying....
2 Corinthians 10:17. BUT HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. So often had he to speak of “glorying” (sixteen times, says Stanley, in this section), that he here finds it needful to remind his...
Paul quotes Proverbs 27:2....
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 inf...
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...
BUT AS. Paul paraphrases Jeremiah 9:23-24. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:31_. MacKnight_ understands this: "If, then, any teacher boasteth, let him boast of his having performed his duty in the manner the L...
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...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:17 Paul supports his boasting as an apostle (vv. 2 Corinthians 10:12) by citing...
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 o...
_But he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord._ Let him glory in truth as before the Lord. Secondly, and better, to glory in the Lord is to glory with the glory given by the Lord, which alone commen...
_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...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 1 Corinthians 1:31; Galatians 6:13; Galatians 6:14;...
These words are. seasonable exhortation to all the ministers of the gospel. 1. To take heed that they glory not in themselves, or in any services or performances of their own. As it is the highest ac...