The apostle here brings another proof of the sincerity of his preaching, viz. the success with which it is attended: And he says, if there be any who have not yet received it, that is their own fault. For had they been as eager to receive it, as we have been to announce it to them, the whold world had long since been converted. (Theodoret)
Verse 2 Corinthians 4:3. _BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID_] κεκαλυμμενον. _Veiled_; he refers to the subject that he had treated so particularly in the conclusion of the preceding chapter. If there be a _ve...
BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID - Paul here calls it his gospel, because it was that which he preached, or the message which he bore; see note, Romans 16:25. The sense here is, “if the gospel which I preach...
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. Resurrec...
In this paragraph the apostle recurs to the thought of 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 1:12; a ministry of such surpassing splendour demanded in himself and his comrades unflinch...
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)...
Since therefore this part of God's service has been given to us, even as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have refused to have anything to do with hidden and shameful methods. We d...
IF. App-118. GOSPEL, Compare App-140. HID. hid (Greek. _kaluptd,_ to cover or veil) also. Compare James 5:20; 1 Peter 4:8, and See 2 Corinthians 3:13. HID. Same verb. TO.
_But if our gospel be hid_ Literally, BUT IF OUR GOSPEL, TOO, BE HIDDEN or VEILED (see last chapter). The Apostle here refers to an objection: "You say that a vail lay upon the hearts of the Jews when...
2 Corinthians 4:1-6. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED As between the first and second Chapter s, the division between the third and fourth is badly made. Chapter 3 should have continued to 2 Corinthians 4:6...
ΕἸ ΔῈ ΚΑῚ ἜΣΤΙΝ ΚΕΚΑΛΥΜΜΈΝΟΝ. _But if_ (2 Corinthians 4:16) _our Gospel is_ VEILED, _it is_ VEILED IN _them that are_ PERISHING (chiasmus). The perf. part. indicates that it has been and remains veile...
_BLINDED TO THE TRUTH 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1-4:_ Paul felt that God had been kind in entrusting him with the work of preaching the gospel. His concept was that what he was doing was a ministry. The ministr...
ΕΊ (G1487) если; с _ind._ предполагает реальность условия, ΚΑΊ (G2532) даже, даже если. С этим оборотом иногда передает некий оттенок презрения, принижает тему (RG, 1026). ΚΕΚΑΛΥΜΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass....
IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID, &C.— _If our Gospel be under a veil too, it is veiled to those that are lost_—who wilfully reject it, and perish thereby. This has an evident reference to what was said above, co...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Machination (2 Corinthians 4:1-6) 4 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refu...
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: BUT IF - however, even if (as I grant is the case). HID - rather (in reference to 2 Corinthians 3:13) [ kekalummenon (G2572)], 'veiled.'...
6 The covenant of the letter is the law of Moses which was engraven in stone, to symbolize its unyielding sternness. There is no reference to the letter of Scripture. It is the law that kills, just as...
4:3 lost; (h-15) Or 'that perish,' as ch. 2.15....
ARE LOST] RV 'are perishing.' If some will not let the light of the gospel shine into their hearts, it is their own fault....
PARAPHRASE. 'If our gospel is not understood by any, it is only by those (4) whose minds are dulled by sin. (5) For the subject of our preaching is not ourselves, but Christ. (6) As God at first creat...
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 bo...
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...
BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID, IT IS HID TO THEM THAT ARE LOST. — Better, in both cases, as keeping the sequence of thought, _has been veiled,_ instead of “is hid,” and _among them that are perishing._ (Se...
CHAPTER 11 THE GOSPEL DEFINED. 2 Corinthians 4:1 (R.V) IN these verses Paul resumes for the last time the line of thought on which he had set out at 2 Corinthians 3:4, and again at 2 Corint
HE DELIVERS WITH FRANKNESS HIS MESSAGE OF CHRIST THE TRUE LIGHT....
εἰ δὲ καὶ κ. τ. λ.: _but even if our gospel_ (_sc._, the good news we preach; see reff.) _is veiled_ (returning again to the metaphor of 2 Corinthians 3:12-18), _it is veiled in them, that are perishi...
GOD'S GLORY REFLECTED IN CHRIST 2 Corinthians 4:1 The servant of Christ must never forget that he once needed and obtained mercy. This will sustain him in many an hour when heart and flesh fail. His...
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...
PAUL AND THE FALSE TEACHERS In 2 Corinthians 3:6, Paul had said he was a minister of the new covenant. Knowing that he had tried to destroy Christianity, Paul was ever thankful for God's mercy which a...
(2) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (2) An objection: many hear the Gospel, and yet are no more enlightened by it than by the preaching of the Law. He answers, "The fault i...
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; (2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God dec...
_THE HIDDEN GOSPEL_ ‘But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.’ 2 Corinthians 4:3 If the Gospel be hidden, why is it hidden? A thing may be ‘hidden’ and made invisible to the eye f...
3._But if our gospel is hid _It might have been an easy thing to pour calumny upon what he had said as to the clearness of his preaching, because he had many adversaries. That calumny he repels with s...
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...
BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID,.... When the Gospel is called ours, the meaning is, not that ministers are the authors or subject of it; but it is so styled, because they are intrusted with it; it is preach...
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: Ver. 3. _To them that are lost_] It is a sign of a reprobate goat,John 8:43; John 8:47 "Sensual, having not the Spirit," Judges 1:19. The de...
_But if our gospel also_, (so it is in the original,) _be hid_ Κεκαλυμμενον, _veiled_, as well as the law of Moses; _it is veiled to them that are lost_ Εν τοις απολλυμενοις, _in those that are perish...
IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID; literally, veiled, in allusion to the veil in the hearts of the unbelieving Jews; that is, so hid that men do not see its glory. All such are still in their lost condition, unenl...
THE GOSPEL-MESSAGE OF LIGHT AND LIFE. Paul uses frankness in delivering his message:...
BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID, IT IS HID TO THEM THAT ARE LOST;...
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...
1-7 The best of men would faint, if they did not receive mercy from God. And that mercy which has helped us out, and helped us on, hitherto, we may rely upon to help us even to the end. The apostles...
The apostle calls the gospel _his gospel, _ because of his instrumentality in the promoting and publishing of it. His meaning is: If the doctrine of the gospel, which I am an instrument to preach, be...
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:...
2 Corinthians 4:3 But G1161 if G1499 our G2257 gospel G2098 is G2076 (G5748) veiled G2572 (G5772) is...
SUCH A MINISTRY AS HAS BEEN DEPICTED MAKES CLEAR THAT ITS MINISTERS ARE NOT CORRUPT BECAUSE IT IS CONDUCTED IN GOD'S GLORIOUS LIGHT AND REVEALS THE UNMATCHABLE GLORY OF GOD IN JESUS CHRIST EVEN THOUGH...
IT IS VEILED IN THEM THAT ARE PERISHING (εν τοις απολλυμενοις εστιν κεκαλυμμενον). Periphrastic perfect passive of καλυπτω, to veil in both condition (first class) and conclusion. See on 2 Corinthi...
2 Corinthians 4:3 The Gospel the Manifestation of God. I. St. Paul speaks of the gospel or good news being hid from those to whom it was proclaimed. St. Paul is not declaring what may be the conseque...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the mini...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ Stern was the labour of the apostles, but they felt that their work was so all-important, so divi...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;--_ We are sometimes ready to faint, but we cast our fainting spirits into the arms of God, and our...
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 t...
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 IF. False teachers speak to confuse the hearer (1 Timothy 6:3-5). If the Good News is hidden, it is only because the hearer has made himself a veil from prejudice and evil desires!...
_But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost._ THE HIDDEN GOSPEL I. What is our gospel? You may call it either “God’s news” or “good newsy” for “God” and “good” are one and the same thi...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Paul explains why he does not become discouraged in his ministry, despite his many afflictions (2 Corinthians 4:1,...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:3 IF OUR GOSPEL IS VEILED refers to the hardened heart that makes it impossible for some to recognize Jesus as the Messiah (see...
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_ N.B. A _continuous outpour_ of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, _from_ 2 Corinthians 2:17 _to_ 2 Corinthians 6:10. 2
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 4:1. THIS MINISTRY.—Viz. that in 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:6; and more definitely expounded at the end of this long section, in...
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 disho...
1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Timothy 1:11; 2 Corinthians 2:15;...
Hid [κ ε κ α λ υ μ μ ε ν ο ν]. Rev., veiled, in accordance with the imagery of ch. 3....
But if our gospel also — As well as the law of Moses....
As if he had said, We preach the gospel plainly; but if men do not understand and believe it, will not embrace and obey it, it is not an argument of the gospel's obscurity, but of our hearers' incredu...