Commentary Critical and Explanatory
2 Corinthians 11:11
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Love is often offended at its favours not being accepted, as though the other party wished to be under no obligation to the offerer.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Love is often offended at its favours not being accepted, as though the other party wished to be under no obligation to the offerer.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:11. _WHEREFORE_] Why have I acted thus? and why do I propose to _continue_ to act thus? is it _because I love you not_, and will not permit you to contribute to my support? _God...
WHEREFORE ... - It is not because I do not love you. It is not from pride, or because I would not as willingly receive aid from you as from any other. It is not because I am more unwilling to be under...
2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_ 2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7) 3. His Boastings of Labors a...
A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render se...
LOVE. Greek. _agapao._ App-132. KNOWETH. Greek. _oida._ App-132....
_Wherefore? because I love you not_?] See 2 Corinthians 11:7 and note. The same ironical tone is adopted. -Can you suppose that _this_is a proof of my indifference towards you?" And then the Apostle s...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΊ; ‘_Why_ am I so firmly resolved never to accept maintenance from you?’ Is it because I care too little about you to wish to be under any obligation to you, or dislike you too much to accept any...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
ΔΙΆ ΤΊ (G1223; G5101) почему? ΟΊΔΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G3617) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ Об этом слове _см._ ND, 344-56....
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15) 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT?] This was the reason his enemies gave for his independence of the Corinthians. GOD KNOWETH] that I love you....
_(B) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_ St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT.. — This then had been said. Some of the Corinthians were jealous, or affected to be jealous, of the preference shown to the Macedonians in receiving gifts from them. With an em...
CHAPTER 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in nothing inf...
διατί; ὅτι οὐκ ἀγ. κ. τ. λ.: _wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth, i.e._, that I _do_ love you....
HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS 2 Corinthians 11:10 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts with himself...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences w...
VERSE 11 Some wondered why he did this. Perhaps they suggested that it was out of a lack of love. Paul calls God as his witness that this was not true....
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
11._Is it because I love you not? _Those that we love, we treat with greater familiarity. Lest the Corinthians, therefore, should take it amiss, that he refused their liberality, while he allowed hims...
In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT?.... Why did the apostle do this? why did he take nothing, and resolve to take nothing of the Corinthians, for preaching the Gospel to them? why did he determine, tha...
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. Ver. 11. _Because I lose you not?_] It should be a minister's care to preserve in the hearts of his people an opinion of his love to them. For if they...
_As the truth of Christ is in me_ As sure as I am a true Christian, and an apostle. The expression has the nature of an oath. See on Romans 9:1. _No man shall stop me of this boasting_ For I will rece...
BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? and therefore am unwilling to seem to be under obligation to you?...
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:...
WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? GOD KNOWETH....
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
Can you possibly interpret my not being chargeable to you, as proceeding from a want of love in me to you? God knoweth the contrary....
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth....
2 Corinthians 11:11 Why G1302 Because G3754 not G3756 love G25 (G5719) you G5209 God G2316 knows G1492
‘As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I love you not? God knows.' And ‘as the truth of Christ is in him'. That is what matt...
PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 11:1). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Paul's mini...
2 Corinthians 11:11. WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? GOD KNOWETH....
GOD KNOWETH (ο θεος οιδεν). Whether they do or not. He knows that God understands his motives....
CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor of Damascus. CONCLUS...
2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
WHY DO I SAY THIS? When Paul refused to be paid by the Corinthian church, the false apostles said it proved he did not love them! But Paul does love them and affirms it by saying that _God knows I do!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:9 Paul refused to accept money from the Corinthians because he had to distinguish his ministry from that of the false apostles. They labored in Corinth out of gr...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4) to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out that they had bestowed no...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:7. OR.—Turning to another topic. OFFENCE.—Lit. “_Sin_.” FREELY.—_I.e. “without charge_.” Cf. Philippians 4:12. 2 Corinthians 11:8
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING. EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He is not afraid of comparisons ...
Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven. Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they so often did,...
2 Corinthians 11:10; 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 12:2; 2 Corinthians 12:3;...
Do I refuse to receive anything of you, because I love you not? God knoweth that is not the case....