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2 Corinthians 10:8
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed,
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed,
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:8. _FOR, THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST_, c.] I have a greater authority and spiritual power than I have yet shown, both to _edify_ and to _punish_ but I employ this for your _edificati...
FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST ... - If I should make even higher claims than I have done to a divine commission. I could urge higher evidence than I have done that I am sent by the Lord Jesus. OF OUR AUT...
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....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
THOUGH. if. App-118. BOAST. glory. Greek. _kauchaonmai_. See Romans 2:17. OF. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104. AUTHORITY. Greek. _exousia._ App-172. LORD. App-98. A: HATH GIVEN. gave. FOR. Gr...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
_boast_ The word is translated -glory," -rejoice," elsewhere. See note on ch. 2 Corinthians 1:12. _somewhat more_ Literally, SOMEWHAT IN EXCESS. _edification_ Literally, BUILDING UP. The English word...
8. It is not easy to decide between ἘΆΝ ΤΕ (אCDKLP, f Vulg.) and ἐάν (BFG 17, Chrys.). 8. Evidence, put hypothetically (ἐάν), but with confidence (indic. apodosis), that he is a minister of Christ, at...
_PAUL REASONED WITH THE CORINTHIANS 2 CORINTHIANS 10:7-11:_ Paul's critics were saying that you could just see that they belonged to Christ. He wanted it understood that he belonged to Christ just as...
ΈΆΝ ΤΕ ΓΆΡ (G1437; G5037; G1063) ибо если. Об использовании частиц здесь _см._ Thrall, 96; BD, 229f; Barrett, ΠΕΡΙΣΣΌΤΕΡΌΝ _сотр. от_ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΌΣ (G4053) обильный; _сотр._ еще более обильно, ΚΑΥΧΉΣΩΜΑΙ...
SOMEWHAT MORE— See ch. 2 Corinthians 11:23. The next clause contains another reason insinuated by the Apostle for his forbearing any severity for the present towards them. _I should not be ashamed,_ i...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Sanctioned (2 Corinthians 10:7-11) 7 Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ'S, let him remind himself that as he is Christ'S, so ar...
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 'For even though I boast somewhat exce...
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...
10:8 overthrowing, (a-28) See ch. 13.10....
PARAPHRASE. 'You are too much influenced by appearances. My opponents say that I do not act as an Apostle of Christ, do they? Be sure that I am just as devoted a servant of Christ as any who assert th...
(_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...
FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE OF OUR AUTHORITY. — Literally, _somewhat too much_ — perhaps as quoting a word that had been used of him. In referring to his “authority,” it scarcely admits of...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος ε...
ἐάν τε γὰρ καὶ περισσότερόν κ. τ. λ.: _for even if I should glory somewhat abundantly_ (or, perhaps, “somewhat _more_ abundantly,” _sc._, than I have already done in 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; but the comp...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak a...
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 8 Paul knew that he could boast in his authority over against theirs and his boast would be backed up. He would not fall to his shame. However, God gave him that great power to build up the chur...
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...
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
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...
8._For though I should boast more largely of my authority_. It was a sign of modesty, that he put himself into the number of those, whom he greatly excelled. At the same time, he was not disposed to s...
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...
FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE OF OUR AUTHORITY,.... Than as yet he had done, or used to do; or rather the sense is, should he boast of a greater authority than the false apostles, or even th...
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: Ver. 8. _And not for destruction_] If it...
_For though I should boast somewhat more_ Than I do, or they can do; _of our_ apostolical _authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification_ To bring sinners to repentance and faith in Christ,...
OUR AUTHORITY; as inspired apostles. I SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED; for the result will show that I have power to do according to my words....
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...
7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved...
Here is a remarkable maxim, a rule from which all ecclesiastical superiors ought to measure their actions: God hath given to no superiors a power for DESTRUCTION of the flock, but only for EDIFICATION...
For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:...
2 Corinthians 10:8 For G1063 even G2532 G1437 G5037 boast G2744 (G5667) somewhat G5100 more G4055 about
‘For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame, that I may not seem (or ‘l...
2 Corinthians 10:8. FOR THOUGH I SHOULD GLORY SOMEWHAT MORE ABUNDANTLY OF OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD (the Lord Christ, Ephesians 3:7-11) GAVE FOR BUILDING YOU UP, AND NOT FOR CASTING YOU DOWN, I SH...
SOMEWHAT ABUNDANTLY (περισσοτερον τ). Comparative, "somewhat more abundantly" than I have, in order to show that he is as true a minister of Christ as his accusers are. Concessive (conditional) cla...
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...
FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED. "I have made no threat that I cannot fulfill! When I come in person, I will make everything I said in that letter come true!" TO BUILD YOU UP. No apostle would work to destroy th...
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...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:8 FOR BUILDING YOU UP AND NOT FOR DESTROYING YOU. “Building up” the church is a common Pauline description of new covenant ministry (see...
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...
2 Corinthians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 12:6; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 13:2;...
I should not be ashamed — As having said more than I could make good....
As if the apostle had said.. have not only an equal power and authority with those which despise me (the false teachers) but. have an authority and power which they cannot, dare not, will not pretend...