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2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but, being absent, am bold toward you;
Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but, being absent, am bold toward you;
CHAPTER X. _The apostle vindicates himself against the aspersions cast on_ _his person by the false apostle; and takes occasion to mention_ _his spiritual might and authority_, 1-6. _He shows them...
NOW I PAUL MYSELF BESEECH YOU - I entreat you who are members of the church not to give me occasion for the exercise of severity in discipline. I have just expressed my confidence in the church in gen...
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....
A WARNING TO THOSE WHO MISUNDERSTAND AND MISREPRESENT PAUL. The abruptness and emphasis of the opening words, as well as their want of connexion with what precedes, are best explained on the hypothesi...
It is I Paul who call upon you--and I am doing it in the gentleness and the sweet reasonableness of Christ--I, who, as you say, am a poor creature when I am with you, but a man of courage when I am ab...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
BESEECH. Greek _parakaleo._ App-134. BY. Greek. die. App-104. 2 Corinthians 10:1. MEEKNESS. Greek. _praotes._ See 1 Corinthians 4:21. GENTLENESS. Greek _epieikeio._ Only here and...
2 Corinthians 10:1-6. St Paul's intention of overcoming all opposition to the Gospel 1. _Now I Paul myself_ "Until now, Paul has addressed himself preeminently to the better intentioned in the Christ...
1. ΠΡΑΥ̓́ΤΗΤΟΣ (אBFGP) rather than πραότητος (א3CDKL). 1. ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ΔῈ ἘΓῺ ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ. It is putting too much meaning into αὐτός to suppose that here the Apostle ceases to dictate and writes the remainder o...
_PAUL STATED HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1-6:_ False teachers at Corinth accused Paul of being a coward when he was with them and brave when he was far away from them. Paul wanted it unde...
ΑΎΤΌΣ ΔΈ ΈΓ "теперь я сам". Павел теперь привлекает внимание к личному вопросу (EGT). В защиту подлинности глав с 10 по 13 _см._ Hughes, ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) молить, ΠΡΑΥ...
NOW I PAUL, &C.— St. Paul having finished his exhortation to liberality in the collection for the Christians at Jerusalem, he resumes his former argument, and prosecutes the main purpose of this epist...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Spiritual (2 Corinthians 10:1-6) 10 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of ChristI who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you whe...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: I PAUL MYSELF - no longer "we," "us," "our" (2 Corint...
5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
NOW I PAUL] If this is not the beginning of the 'severe' letter, it is evidently the beginning of a new subject. Possibly one leaf of the MS containing this letter was lost at an early date; and this...
(_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...
X. (1) NOW I PAUL MYSELF BESEECH YOU. — His thoughts, as has been said, have travelled back to Corinth. The stinging words which Titus had reported to him (see Note on 2 Corinthians 10:10) vex his sou...
CHAPTER 22 WAR. 2 Corinthians 10:1 (R.V) THE last four Chapter s of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians stand as manifestly apart as the two about the collection. A great deal too much has been ma...
HE BEGS THEM NOT TO FORCE HIM TO EXERT HIS AUTHORITY WITH SEVERITY WHEN HE COMES. He first expresses the hope that their conduct will be such as to admit of his being “meek and gentle” when he arrives...
αὐτὸς δὲ ἐγὼ Παῦλος κ. τ. λ.: _now_ (δέ marks a transition to a new subject, as at 2 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 15:1) _I Paul myself_ (αὐτὸς ἐγὼ, calling attention to a specially personal matter a...
MIGHTY WITH SPIRITUAL WEAPONS 2 Corinthians 10:1 Paul here makes his defense. Some who resisted his authority spoke disparagingly of his weak body and uneloquent speech. Why should they yield so abso...
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 1 Most of the earlier part of this letter has been addressed to that part of the church loyal to Paul. The apostle now turns to deal with his accusers. He had included Timothy in previous though...
Now (1) I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and (a) gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: (1) He returns to the defence of his apostlesh...
Who in presence indeed am lowly. [1] Literally, humble, (see Luke i. ver. 48.) that is, of a mean aspect, as to exterior appearances, and my speech contemptible, without the ornaments of human eloquen...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Humilis sum, _Greek: tapeinos._...
(1) Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: (2) But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I...
CONTENTS The Apostle enters upon this Chapter with one of the most endearing Expressions of Entreaty, to enforce what he wrote to them, in holding forth the Meekness, and Gentleness, of Christ. And h...
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...
Having finished his exhortation, he now proceeds partly to refute the calumnies with which he had been defamed by the false apostles, and partly to repress the insolence (740) of certain wicked person...
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...
NOW I PAUL MYSELF BESEECH YOU,.... The apostle having said what was necessary and proper to stir up the Corinthians to a liberal contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem, returns to the vindicati...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence _am_ base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: Ver. 1. _By the meekness and gentleness_] Whom in tho...
_Now_, &c. Hitherto St. Paul's discourse, in this epistle, was chiefly directed to those at Corinth who acknowledged his apostleship, and who had obeyed his orders, signified to them in his former let...
MEEKNESS AND GENTLENESS OF CHRIST; which Paul wished them to imitate. BASE-BOLD; weak and contemptible, as my enemies say, in my bodily presence; but assuming great boldness in my absence. See verse 2...
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...
IN PRESENCE: Or, in outward appearance...
1-6 While others thought meanly, and spake scornfully of the apostle, he had low thoughts, and spake humbly of himself. We should be aware of our own infirmities, and think humbly of ourselves, even...
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 Paul entreateth the Corinthians not to leave him cause to exert against them that spiritual power, with which he was armed, and meant to chastise those who...
[The two previous parts of this epistle have been mainly addressed to that portion of the congregation at Corinth which was loyal to the apostle. This third part, however, is especially addressed to h...
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PAUL BEGINS HIS DEFENCE. WHEN HE COMES AMONG THEM HE WILL PROVE HIS STRENGTH AND INDEED THEY ALREADY HAVE EVIDENCE OF IT IN THEIR OWN CONVERSION (2 CORINTHIANS 10:1). ‘Now I Paul myself entreat you by...
2 Corinthians 10:1. NOW I PAUL MYSELF: ‘Hitherto I have addressed you for the most part as associated with others in the work of the Lord; but understand me now as speaking exclusively in my own perso...
NOW I PAUL MYSELF (Αυτος δε εγω Παυλος). Cf. Galatians 5:2. Paul now turns to the third part of the epistle in Chapter s 2 Corinthians 10:10-13 in which he vigorously defends himself against the acc...
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...
I, PAUL. With this verse, Paul begins a strong warning to the false teacher (or teachers) and the group that followed him. Up to this point, he had been writing to those who accepted him as an apostle...
_Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ._ THE MEEKNESS AND GENTLENESS OF CHRIST These words recognise Christ’s character as an accepted standard of appeal among the Co...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 Paul’s Appeal to the Rebellious Minority in Corinth. In the third major section of his letter, Paul directly appeals to those who are still rejecting his gospe...
_Now I Paul myself beseech you._ Hitherto I have pleaded the cause of others, the poor; now I am going to speak for myself. I beseech you to observe my admonitions and the precepts which, as your Apos...
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...
_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 16:21; 1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 Corinthians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 4:10;...
I Paul myself. "This emphatic stress on his own person is the fit introduction to the portion of the epistle which, beyond any other part of his writings, is to lay open his individual life and charac...
Now I Paul myself — — A strongly emphatical expression. Who when present am base among you — So, probably, some of the false teachers affirmed. Copying after the meekness and gentleness of Christ, ent...
Observe here, 1. The charge brought in unjustly against St. Paul by the false apostles, namely, that when he was present with the Corinthians, he was low and humble enough to some degree of baseness;...