George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Corinthians 13:10
We write this for the edification of Christ's mystical body, and to cause all men to enter; not for its destruction, and to compel many to abandon it.
We write this for the edification of Christ's mystical body, and to cause all men to enter; not for its destruction, and to compel many to abandon it.
Verse 2 Corinthians 13:10. _THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS_] I only threaten you now, by this epistle, to put you on your guard, and lead you to reformation before I visit you that I may not then hav...
THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS ... - This is a kind of apology for what he had said, and especially for the apparently harsh language which he had felt himself constrained to use. He had reproved them...
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 comi...
WARNINGS IN VIEW OF A VISIT. This closing chapter starts from a vivid realisation of that which is only too likely to be the situation when he arrives for the third time. With increased emphasis, 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 alr...
THEREFORE. On account of (Greek. _dia_. App-104.) this. LEST. in order that Greek. _hina)_... not (Greek. _me_. App-105). USE SHARPNESS. act severely. USE. Greek _chraomai._ See Acts 27:3, SHARPNES...
ΧΡΉΣΩΜΑΙ. (אABKL) rather than χρήσομαι (DFGP). Against overwhelming evidence (אABDFGP) the Rec. places ὁ κύριος after ἔδωκέν μοι (KL). 10. He writes in order that, if possible, his fears (2 Corinthia...
1–10. The letter hastens to a conclusion. He reminds them, 1. what they have to expect from him in this third visit (1–4); 2. what they owe to themselves, seeing that their estimate of him and his tre...
_DO NOTHING AGAINST THE TRUTH 2 CORINTHIANS 13:8-10:_ Paul's one desire was to follow the truth and not fight against it. Let us develop that same attitude that says, "We cannot do anything against th...
ΆΠΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΠΕΊΜΙ (G548) отсутствовать, ΠΑΡΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΑΡΕΊΜΙ (G3918) присутствовать, ΆΠΟΤΌΜΩΣ (G664) _adv. отadj._ отрубленный, срезанный; остро, сурово (RWP; BAGD)....
THEREFORE I WRITE, &C.— Dr. Heylin translates this passage very well from 2 Corinthians 13:5. _Try yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof. Are you so little acquainted w...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Maturation Through Self-Examination (2 Corinthians 13:5-10) 5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that J...
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. THEREFORE - beca...
10 Edification should ever be the aim of God's servant in dealing with His erring saints. All other means should be exhausted before sharpness and, severity should be used. They are a last resort, and...
13:10 authority (h-21) Or 'power;' it is _ exousia_ , 'title,' not mere competency. see Note, Matthew 10:1 . overthrowing. (i-34) See ch. 10.8....
TO EDIFICATION, AND NOT TO DESTRUCTION] RV 'for building up, and not for casting down.' _(E) 13:11-14. CONCLUSION AND BENEDICTION_ The Apostle gives them his parting greeting, and bids them try to l...
The Apostle announces a third visit, and exhorts them to repentance. He expresses his desire for their growth in grace. PARAPHRASE. '(1) This is the third visit I am about to pay you. On this occasion...
PARAPHRASE. 'We pray to God that you may lead a pure and holy life, not to do us credit, but because it is right, even though we be like false apostles. (8) For our authority is given us to advance wh...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 V1 This will be my third visit to you. If you accuse anyone, two or three witnesses must speak in evidence. V2 I said...
THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS BEING ABSENT... — The words speak of an inner conflict, in which love has triumphed, not without pain, over feelings of bitterness and indignation. The storm has passed,...
CHAPTER 28 CONCLUSION. 2 Corinthians 13:1 (R.V) THE first part of this chapter is in close connection with what precedes; it is, so to speak, the explanation of St. Paul's fear 2 Corinthians 12:20 t...
διὰ τοῦτο ταῦτα κ. τ. λ.: _for this cause I write these things, i.e._, this letter, _while absent that I may not when present_ (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 2:3) _deal sharply_ (we must understand ὑμῖν after χ...
2 Corinthians 13:1-10. IF HE COMES AGAIN, HE WILL NOT SPARE: CHRIST IS HIS STRENGTH: LET THE CORINTHIANS SEE TO IT THAT HE BE THEIRS ALSO....
HOW TO BE BUILT UP 2 Corinthians 13:7 None can really injure the truth or stop its victorious progress. As well try to stop the sunrise. We often help others most in our weakness, because then we rel...
In view of his intention to visit them again the apostle urged them to personal examination. They were to test themselves, and to prove themselves whether they were in the faith. The reason for his ap...
VERSE 10 While he was away from them, Paul wrote to them hoping they would change. The authority and power he had was intended for use in making congregations grow. He would hate to have to use that p...
(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (6) But I trust that ye shall know tha...
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...
10._According to the power _In the _first _place, he arms the strictness of which he speaks, with the authority of God, that it may not appear to be thunder without lightning, or a rashly excited onse...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS BEING ABSENT,.... Assuring them of his power and authority, expressing his concern for their welfare, earnestly desiring that they might be kept from evil, and perform g...
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Ver. 10. _And not t...
_Now I pray God that ye do no evil_ To give me occasion of showing my apostolical power; _not that we should appear approved_ I desire not to appear approved by miraculously punishing you; _but that y...
NOT TO DESTRUCTION; not for the purpose of destroying you, but of delivering you from sin, and thus promoting your salvation....
Paul appeals to his readers to stand approved of Christ:...
THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS BEING ABSENT, LEST, BEING PRESENT, I SHOULD USE SHARPNESS, ACCORDING TO THE POWER WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN ME TO EDIFICATION, AND NOT TO DESTRUCTION. In opposition to t...
It is essential that Paul should repeat that this was the third time he was coming to them. Such emphasis was needed to awaken proper exercise. For the second time he had not come, in order to spare t...
7-10 The most desirable thing we can ask of God, for ourselves and our friends, is to be kept from sin, that we and they may not do evil. We have far more need to pray that we may not do evil, than t...
The apostle here lets them know with how much tenderness he dealt with them; and whereas they might have charged him with sharpness in his letters, he assures them, that he therefore had so wrote, tha...
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down. [Here Paul ampl...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V -he, the preacher of a most gentle god? Yea, he even declares that "the Lord hath given to him the power of using sharpness in their presence!"[593]...
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‘For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.' The verse con...
2 Corinthians 13:10. FOR THIS CAUSE I WRITE THESE THINGS WHILE ABSENT, THAT I MAY NOT WHEN PRESENT DEAL SHARPLY, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITY WHICH THE LORD GAVE ME FOR BUILDING UP, AND NOT FOR CASTING...
THAT I MAY NOT WHEN PRESENT DEAL SHARPLY (ινα παρων αποτομως χρησωμα). Late adverb from αποτομος, curt, cut off. In N.T. only here and Titus 1:13....
2 Corinthians 13:10 The Christian View of the Perfectibility of Man. I. One of the general ideas naturally arising at the repetition of such words would be that in futurity is the greatness of man,...
CONTENTS: Closing exhortations of Paul to the Corinthians. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The great burden of God's faithful representatives is that the Gospel they preach m...
2 Corinthians 13:1. _This is the third time I am coming to you._ Compare the following texts. Acts 18:1; Acts 20:2; Acts 21:13. The difficulty here is re
THAT IS WHY. This is the reason for Paul's strongly worded letter, and for what he writes in this Second Letter. It would be no pleasure to him to punish them, and in effect _show off his_ authority a...
CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. There were some at Corinth who had abandoned themselves to impurity, others who were proud and contentious (xi. 20, 21), others given to other sins, and dispose...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 13:1.—[Good paraphrase, exhibiting connection of thought, from Stanley: “Once, twice, thrice, as in the Mosaic Law of the three witnesses; by my first visit—by this Epis...
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 ...
Now he said, This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. [For] I told you before, and foretell you [I'm telling you again], as if...
1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:2; 2 Corinthians 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:20;...
Use sharpness [α π ο τ ο μ ω ς χ ρ η σ ω μ α ι]. Rev., more literally and correctly, deal sharply, thus giving the force of the adverb. For sharply see on the kindred ajpotomia severity, Romans 11:22....
As if the apostle had said, "Verily. write thus to you, being absent, purposely, to reclaim you, lest being present,. should be forced to use some sharpness towards you, according to the power which t...