He was crucified through weakness. That is, he took upon him our weak and infirm nature, in which he was made capable of suffering, and of laying down willingly his life for us on the cross. But he liveth again by the power of God, of his divine power. --- We also are weak in him, like him liable to sufferings, undergoing sufferings by his example; but we shall live with him by the power of God, of which you have also a share. (Witham)
2 CORINTHIANS 13:4 evn auvtw|/ {A} Under the influence of the following su.n auvtw|/, several witnesses replace evn auvtw|/ with su.n auvtw|/ (a A F G 1311 2495 itg, r syrp copb...
Verse 2 Corinthians 13:4. _FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS_] It is true Christ was crucified, and his crucifixion appeared to be the effect of his _weakness_; yet even this was not so; h...
FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS - Various modes have been adopted of explaining the phrase “through weakness.” The most probable explanation is that which refers it to the human nature wh...
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...
FOR. For indeed. THOUGH. Most of the texts omit. THROUGH. out. of Greek. _ek._ App-104. LIVETH. App-110. BY. oat of. Greek. _ek,_ as above. POWER. Greek. _dunamis_. App-172. Compare Ephesians 1:1...
_For though he was crucified through weakness_ Chrysostom observes that these words were a great difficulty to the weaker sort. But he explains them by John 11:3-4; Philippians 2:27; 1 Timothy 5:23, w...
ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ἘΣΤΑΥΡΏΘΗ (אBDFGKP, d g Copt. Aeth.) rather than καὶ γὰρ εἰ ἐστ. (א3AD2D3L, f Vulg. Syrr. Arm. Goth.): also ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ (אABDLP, Latt. Goth.) rather than καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἡμεῖς (some cursives, f...
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...
1–4. The abrupt opening sentences, without connecting particles, mark the sternness of the tone....
_LIVING BY THE POWER OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1-4:_ Paul warned these brethren that he was coming to Corinth for a third time. He was concerned that he might come and find the spiritual condition unfav...
ΚΑΙ ΓΆΡ (G2532; G1063) ибо даже (Hughes), ΈΣΤΑΥΡΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΤΑΥΡΌΩ (G4717) распинать, ΖΉ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить, έκ из. Предлог здесь используется в причинном значении...
DISCOURSE: 2046 THE POWER OF THE RISEN SAVIOUR 2 Corinthians 13:4. _Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with hi...
CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS,— _With appearance of weakness, yet he liveth with the manifestation of the power of God._ The meaning of the place is this: "Though Christ in his crucifixion appeared weak...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Maturation Through Submission (2 Corinthians 13:1-4) 13 This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesse...
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. THOUGH. So A C Vulgate, Hil...
14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...
13:4 in (f-8) by (f-13) _ Ek_ , characterizing the principle on which it took place....
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...
THROUGH WEAKNESS] i.e. in the human weakness he assumed of his own accord: cp. Philippians 2:6....
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...
FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS... — The better MSS. give another reading, without the contingent or concessive clause: _For even He was crucified._ St. Paul seems to see in Christ the hi...
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...
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....
(_ a_) καὶ γὰρ ἐσταυρώθη κ. τ. λ.: _for He was crucified through weakness_ (_cf._ Philippians 2:8; 1 Peter 3:18; ἐκ indicating that it was His self-assumed ἀσθένεια which made the Passion possible), _...
“PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES” 2 Corinthians 13:1 Once more Paul refers to the charge that his ministry was characterized by weakness. This deeply wounded him. He admitted that in his personal appearance an...
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 4 Christ was crucified because of weakness, man's. He was raised in power, God's (Romans 4:24; 64; 8:11; 1 Peter 121). Because of Christ, Paul had suffered trials and the weaknesses of man. But,...
For though he was crucified through (b) weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. (b) Regarding that base fo...
(2) I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not s...
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...
4._For though he was crucified. _He speaks, with particular intention, of Christ’s abasement, with the view of intimating indirectly, (949) that nothing was despised in him, but what they would have b...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS,.... Of the human nature; for the nature which Christ assumed was in all things like to ours, excepting sin; it was subject to all sinless infirmities; it...
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Ver. 4. _Crucified through wea...
_I told you before_ As you will remember; _and foretel you_ now, _as if I were present_ That is, I declare what you ought to regard as much as if I spake it personally to you; _and being absent_ In bo...
THROUGH WEAKNESS; as a man in apparent weakness; abstaining from exercising his power for deliverance. ARE WEAK IN HIM; have fellowship with him in the weakness which he manifested when among men, an...
A CONCLUDING ADMONITION AND GREETINGS. Paul announces his determination to use all severity, if necessary:...
FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS, YET HE LIVETH BY THE POWER OF GOD. FOR WE ALSO ARE WEAK IN HIM, BUT WE SHALL LIVE WITH HIM BY THE POWER OF GOD TOWARD YOU. Paul here follows his usual met...
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...
IN HIM: Or, with him...
1-6 Though it is God's gracious method to bear long with sinners, yet he will not bear always; at length he will come, and will not spare those who remain obstinate and impenitent. Christ at his cruc...
He had before said, that Christ in him was _not weak, but mighty; _ here he showeth, that there was a time when Christ himself was weak, in a low and contemptible state, in which state _he was crucifi...
for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. [The apostle here gives the...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus He suffered shame on earth, while He is higher than all glory and praise in heaven; who, "though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by divin...
2 Corinthians 13:4 For G1063 G2532 though G1487 crucified G4717 (G5681) in G1537 weakness G769 yet G235 li
‘Seeing that you seek a proof of Christ that speaks in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you, for he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we als...
2 Corinthians 13:4. FOR [1] HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS, YET HE LIVETH THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD. There was a great principle involved in the death of Christ, over and above its more immediate ob...
BUT WE SHALL LIVE WITH HIM THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD (αλλα ζησομεν συν αυτω εκ δυναμεως θεου). So real is Paul's sense of his union with Christ....
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
FOR EVEN THOUGH. The world sees the _cross_ as evidence of weakness. From a human point of view, the whole idea of a crucified Savior is _"offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles"_ (1 Corin...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 13:3 Following the pattern of Christ’s own WEAKNESS (2 Corinthians 1:5;...
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 15:43; 1 Corinthians 2:3; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 3:22;...
He was crucified through weakness — Through the impotence of human nature. We also are weak with him — We appear weak and despicable by partaking of the same sufferings for his sake. But we shall live...