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2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:2. _I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU_, c.] The apostle evidently alludes either to the שושבינים _shoshabinim_ or _paranymphs_ among the Hebrews, whose office is largely explained in the n...
FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU - This verse expresses the reason why he was disposed to speak of his attainments, and of what he had done. It was because he loved them, and because he feared that they were...
2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_ 2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7) 3. His Boastings of Labors a...
A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Would that you would bear with me in a little foolishness--but I know that you do bear with me. I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband, I wished to present a...
JEALOUS. Gr _. zeloo_ See Acts 7:9, GODLY. of God. App-98. It means. great jealousy. Compare Acts 7:20. JEALOUSY. Greek. _zelos._ See Acts 5:17, HAVE. Omit. ESPOUSED. Greek. _harmoza._ Only
_with godly jealousy_ Literally, WITH A JEALOUSY OF GOD, i.e. either (1) which comes from Him, or (2) which is pleasing in His sight, or (3) as Chrysostom, with the jealousy with which God is jealous,...
1–6. These verses are introductory, apologizing for the folly of glorying, to which a godly zeal on their behalf impels him. At the beginning, middle, and end of this section he calls attention to the...
ΖΗΛΩ͂ ΓᾺΡ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΖΉΛΩΙ. This explains the second half of 2 Corinthians 11:1 : because his feeling for them is of so lofty a character, he is sure that they will not refuse him toleration, however...
_PAUL CONTINUED HIS SELF-DEFENSE -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-4:_ Paul's concern for the Corinthians was tremendous. Therefore, he desired that they would bear with him as he explained and defended his apost...
ΖΗΛΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΛΌΩ (G2206) ревновать, ΖΉΛΟΣ (G2206) ревность. Это слово произошло от метафоры, связанной с браком (Barrett; Martin). Здесь _dat._ средства или образа действия, ΉΡΜΟΣΆΜΗ...
DISCOURSE: 2040 GODLY JEALOUSY THE DUTY OF MINISTERS 2 Corinthians 11:2. _I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin...
THAT I MAY PRESENT YOU AS A CHASTE VIRGIN— This is greatly illustrated by recollecting, that there was an officer among the Greeks, whose business it was to educate and form young women, especially th...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Unarticulative (2 Corinthians 11:1-6) I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 2I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to...
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. FOR I AM JEALOUS. The justification of his self-commendat...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
GODLY JEALOUSY] lit. 'the jealousy of God.' I HAVE ESPOUSED YOU] cp. Ephesians 5:25; 2 John 1:1; 2 John 1:13; Revelation 19:7;...
_(B) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_ St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU... — The word is used with the same sense as in the nearly contemporary passage of Galatians 4:17, and the whole passage may be paraphrased thus: “I court your favour with a...
CHAPTER 24 GODLY JEALOUSY. 2 Corinthians 11:1 (R.V) ALL through the tenth chapter there is a conflict in the Apostle's mind. He is repeatedly, as it were, on the verge of doing something, from which...
ζηλῶ γὰρ ὑμᾶς κ. τ. λ.: _for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy_ (_cf._ Zechariah 1:14, and for Θεοῦ ζήλῳ _cf._ Acts 22:3; Romans 10:2; this “jealousy” of St. Paul is on behalf of God); for I...
HE BEGS THEM TO BEAR WITH HIM IF HE STATES HIS CLAIMS AT LENGTH; IT IS NECESSARY TO DO SO BECAUSE OF THEIR READINESS TO ACCEPT NOVEL TEACHING....
“A GODLY JEALOUSY” 2 Corinthians 11:1 As the Bridegroom's friend, Paul was eager to bring the Corinthian church to the Bridegroom of souls. But false teachers disturbed the purity and simplicity of t...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences w...
VERSE 2 Paul was not jealous because of a selfish desire for gain. Rather, he wanted them to be faithful to God. Also, he says that he arranged an engagement for the Corinthian church with Christ. The...
For I am jealous over you with (a) godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may (b) present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ. (a) He speaks as one who woos them, but yet as on...
With the jealousy of God, or that came from God: it may also signify a great, or godly jealousy. --- To present you, that is, the Church of Corinth, a chaste virgin to Christ, as the whole Catholic Ch...
(1) Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. (2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you...
illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
2._For I am jealous _Mark why it is that he acts the fool, for _jealousy _hurries a man as it were headlong. “Do not demand that I should show the equable temper (796) of a man that is at ease, and no...
In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU WITH GODLY JEALOUSY,.... He lets them know it was not so much on his own account, or at all with any selfish views, or for any secular interest of his own, that he was so con...
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present _you as_ a chaste virgin to Christ. Ver. 2. _For I am jealous_] _q.d._ My dear love to you pu...
WITH GODLY JEALOUSY; I am exceedingly anxious for your good. ESPOUSED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND; he had been the means of uniting them to Christ....
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
1-4 The apostle desired to preserve the Corinthians from being corrupted by the false apostles. There is but one Jesus, one Spirit, and one gospel, to be preached to them, and received by them; and wh...
Jealousy is a passion in a person which makes him impatient of any rival or partner in the thing or person beloved. The apostle tells them, that he was _jealous over them, _ and thereby lets them know...
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ....
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Directly in point is the instance of the apostle, who says, writing the Corinthians: "For I have espoused you to one man, that I may present you as a chast...
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‘For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.' He stresses that he is concerned for them like a father for h...
PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 11:1). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Paul's mini...
2 Corinthians 11:2. FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU WITH A GODLY JEALOUSY: FOR I BETROTHED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, THAT I MIGHT PRESENT YOU AS A PURE VIRGIN TO CHRIST. The apostle here speaks, like the Baptist,...
WITH A GODLY JEALOUSY (θεου ζηλω). Instrumental case of ζηλος. With a jealousy of God.I ESPOUSED (ηρμοσαμην). First aorist middle indicative of αρμοζω, old verb to join, to fit together (from αρμ...
CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor of Damascus. CONCLUS...
2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
JUST AS GOD IS. Paul feels the same jealousy which God feels (Exodus 20:5) because in converting them to Christ he had promised them in marriage to _one man only,_ that is, to Christ. Compare Revelati...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:2 As their “father” in the faith (see 1 Corinthians 4:15;...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4) to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out that they had bestowed no...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:1.—Small change of rendering, “_a bit of foolishness_,” because of small variation of reading. “For, on my own principle (2 Corinthians 10:18), _it is_ foolishness.”...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING. EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He is not afraid of comparisons ...
Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven. Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they so often did,...
1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Colossians 1:28; Ephesians 5:27;...
I am jealous [ζ η λ ω]. The translation is correct. The word is appropriate to the image which follows, in which Paul represents himself as the marriage - friend who has betrothed the bride to the bri...
For — The cause of his seeming folly is expressed in this and the following verse; the cause why they should bear with him, 2 Corinthians 11:4....