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2 Corinthians 10:2
but I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
but I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:2. _SOME, WHICH THINK OF US AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO_ _THE FLESH._] As it is customary for _cowards_ and _overbearing men_ to _threaten_ the _weak_ and the _timid_ when _pr...
THAT I MAY NOT BE BOLD - I entreat you so to act that I may not have occasion to exercise the severity which I fear I shall be compelled to use against those who accuse me of being governed wholly by...
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...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
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...
BESEECH. pray. Greek. _deomai._ App-134. NOT. Greek. _me_ App-105. THAT. the. CONFIDENCE. Greek. _pepoithesis._ App-150. THINK. reckon. BE BOLD. dare, as 12. Greek. _tolmao. Tharreo_ expresses "c...
_I beseech you, that I may not be bold_ Literally, I ENTREAT THE NOT BEING BOLD. Compliance or non-compliance with this request rested entirely with the Corinthians. The word here translated _beseech_...
ΔΈΟΜΑΙ ΔῈ ΤῸ ΜῊ ΠΑΡῺΝ ΘΑΡΡΗ͂ΣΑΙ, YEA, _I beseech_ you _that I may not_ WHEN PRESENT SHOW COURAGE. The δέ follows up the παρακαλῶ: _I exhort, yea, I beseech_. The A.V. misses a point in having ‘beseech...
_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...
ΔΈΟΜΑΙ (G1189) _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ просить, молить, ΠΑΡΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΑΡΕΊΜΙ (G3918) присутствовать. Наречное использование _part._: "когда я присутствую". ΘΑΡΡΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf....
AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE FLESH— "As if in my conduct and ministry I regulated myself by carnal considerations, by low and mercenary views....
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...
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. BUT - resumin...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH] i.e. in a worldly spirit. His enemies declared that he was one who sought his own advantage and tried to gain popularity by whatever methods seemed best at the moment. When he...
(_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...
BUT I BESEECH YOU... — There is, of course, an implied warning, almost a menace, in the entreaty. He would fain be spared the necessity for boldness when he and those of whom he speaks meet face to fa...
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...
δέομαι δὲ τὸ μὴ παρὼν κ. τ. λ.: _nay_ (_sc._, “however that be,” δέ recommencing the sentence) _I beseech you, that I may not_ (the use of the article with μή and the inf. is somewhat unusual; but _cf...
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 2 Paul pleaded with them to change so he might again come to them gently. He did not want to use the power God had given him to prove his spirituality and disprove the charges that he served onl...
But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked (b) according to the flesh. (b) As tho...
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...
I beg of you now to hear my apology, that I may not be obliged to make us of my authority, when present among you, which they say I have abused, and usurped over you. There is in this discourse a litt...
(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...
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...
2._I beseech you, that I may not be bold, when I am present. _Some think, that the discourse is incomplete, and that he does not express the matter of his request. (746) I am rather of opinion, howeve...
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...
BUT I BESEECH YOU, THAT I MAY NOT BE BOLD WHEN I AM PRESENT,.... That is, he entreated them that they would so behave for the future, that he might have no occasion, when he came among them, to use th...
But I beseech _you_, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. Ver. 2. _That...
_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...
BE BOLD; called to exercise his apostolical authority and enforce painful discipline. AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; were governed by a worldly policy, after the manner of selfish men....
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...
THINK: Or, reckon...
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...
It is true, (saith the apostle), when I have been with you I have made it my business to behave myself with all obliging sweetness, not using that authority which I might have used; and I beseech you,...
yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh. [Hitherto the apostl...
2 Corinthians 10:2 But G1161 beg G1189 (G5736) present G3918 (G5752) not G3361 bold G2292 (G5658) confid
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 10:2. YES, I BESEECH YOU, THAT I MAY NOT WHEN PRESENT SHEW COURAGE WITH THE CONFIDENCE WHEREWITH I RECKON TO BE BOLD AGAINST SOME, WHICH RECKON OF US AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE FLE...
I BESEECH (δεομα). So here, but παρακαλω in verse 2 Corinthians 10:1. Perhaps, "I beg" suits the new turn here.THAT I MAY NOT WHEN PRESENT SHOW COURAGE (το μη παρων θαρρησα). Articular infinitive...
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...
DO NOT FORCE ME. "If you continue your present actions, I will be forced to take harsh measures with you when I come in person!" WORLDLY MOTIVES. This group accused Paul of the things they themselves...
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...
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 4:19; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Corinthians 12:13; 2 Corinthians 12:20;...
But I beseech you [δ ε ο μ α ι δ ε]. In ver. 1, parakalw is used for beseech. It is doubtful whether the two words can be strictly distinguished as indicating different degrees of feeling. It may be s...
Do not constrain me when present to be bold — To exert my apostolical authority. Who think of us as walking after the flesh — As acting in a cowardly or crafty manner....