The chapter concludeth with an exhortation to their liberality, backed with a heap of arguments.
1. It would be an evidence of their love to God, to their afflicted brethren, and to the apostle.
2. It would be a proof of it to those messengers of the churches, and to the churches whose messengers they were.
3. It would evidence that the apostle had not, to Titus and others, boasted on their behalf in vain.
2 CORINTHIANS 8:24 evndeiknu,menoi Since it is now generally recognized by New Testament grammarians that, in accordance with Semitic idiom, occasionally the Greek participle functions as the imperat...
Verse 2 Corinthians 8:24. _WHEREFORE SHOW YE TO THEM, AND BEFORE THE CHURCHES_, c.] Seeing they are persons every way _worthy_ in themselves, and coming to you on such an _important_ occasion, and so...
WHEREFORE SHOW YE TO THEM ... - By a liberal contribution in the cause in which they are engaged and for which they have come among you now, furnish the evidence that you love me and the Christian cau...
II. THE MINISTRY OF GIVING. CHAPTER S 8-9 1. The Examples and Principles of Giving. CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Grace of God Manifested in the Churches of Macedonia. (2 Corinthians 8:1)_ 2. The Great Examp...
2 Corinthians 8:16. Paul commends the three messengers who are going to Corinth on the business of the collection. One of these was Titus, and he looked on the matter in the same way as Paul. There we...
AN APPEAL FOR GENEROSITY (2 Corinthians 8:1-15)...
Thanks be to God who has put into the heart of Titus the same earnestness for you as there is in mine. His earnestness is proved by the fact that he not only welcomed my invitation, but that also, wit...
SHEW. Greek. _endeiknumi_. See Romans 2:15. BEFORE. Literally unto (Greek. _eis)_ the face of. PROOF, or evidence. Greek. _endeixis_. See Romans 8:25. BOASTING. Greek. _kauchesis_. See R
_before the churches_ To which they belong, and of which they are the representatives, 2 Corinthians 8:19_; 2 Corinthians 8:23_. The spirit shewn by the Corinthians would of necessity be reported by t...
ἘΝΔΕΊΞΑΣΘΕ (אCD2D3KLP, f Vulg. Syrr. Copt. Arm. Aeth.) rather than ἐνδεικνύμενοι (BDFG, d e g): but the reading is doubtful. CHAPS. 8, 9. THE COLLECTION FOR THE POOR SAINTS AT JERUSALEM; THE PALESTIN...
23, 24. Summary, briefly commending all three of the delegates...
_PROVIDING FOR HONEST THINGS 2 CORINTHIANS 8:19-24:_ The churches chose this brother to help administer their gifts. It was Paul's goal to avoid any blame in this matter. He did not want anyone to fin...
ΈΝΔΕΙΞΙΣ (G1732) доказательство, свидетельство. ΚΑΥΧΉΣΕΩΣ (G2746) _gen. sing._ похвальба. ΈΝΔΕΙΚΝΎΜΕΓΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΈΝΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G1731) показывать, доказывать, предъявлять доказательства,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Carefulness (2 Corinthians 8:16-24) 16 But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus 1, Titus 17For he not only accepted our appea...
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf. SHOW YE. So 'Aleph (') C. But B Delta G f g read '(continue) manifesting [ endeiknume...
7 Is it not remarkable that Macedonia, poverty stricken, in the midst of extreme affliction, deterred from contributing by Paul, entreats for the privilege as a favor, while Corinth, undoubtedly far r...
_(A) 8:1-9. THE EXAMPLE OF MACEDONIA_ 1-5. Paraphrase. 'I wish you to know how liberally and spontaneously the Churches of Macedonia have contributed to the relief of their fellow-disciples in Jerusa...
PARAPHRASE. 'The zeal of Titus on your account causes us great thankfulness to God, (17) for he did not need my suggestion, but was eager to return to you. (18) With him we send our fellow-labourer, w...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 V1 Brothers, we want to tell you about the kindness that God showed to the churches in Macedonia. V2 Even when they wer...
WHEREFORE SHEW YE TO THEM. — In adding “before the churches” (literally, _in the face of the churches_)_,_ St. Paul appeals, as he has done throughout the chapter, to that natural love of praise which...
CHAPTER 21 THE FRUITS OF LIBERALITY. 2 Corinthians 8:16; 2 Corinthians 9:1 (R.V) THIS long passage has a good many difficulties of detail, for the grammarian and the textual critic. Where it seems n...
HE COMMENDS TO THEM TITUS AND TWO UNNAMED COMPANIONS, WHO, BEARING THIS LETTER WITH THEM, ARE SENT TO GATHER THE COLLECTION AT CORINTH....
τὴν οὖν ἔνδειξιν κ. τ. λ.: _shew ye therefore_ (if we read ἐνδεικνύμενοι the exhortation is indirect, as at Romans 12:9-21) _unto them in the face of the Churches the demonstration of your love, sc._,...
“THINGS HONORABLE” BOTH TO GOD AND MEN 2 Corinthians 8:16 Those who handle the gifts of the Church should be extremely careful that all their financing be above the slightest suspicion. The Apostle s...
The apostle now turned to the subject of the collection for the saints at Jerusalem, concerning which he had written in his previous letter 1 Corinthians 16:1). He cites the example of the churches in...
VERSE 24 Since the messengers deserved their trust, Paul asks the Corinthians to show their love in the collection of the gift. He wanted them to show it because he knew they had it and had confidentl...
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the (o) churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf. (o) All the churches in whose presence you are in will be witnesses of this your go...
REFLECTIONS What a lovely view those Churches of Macedon exhibit, of the real love of Christ, in their hearts, in their liberal attention to the wants of Christ's members. Not only in proportion to th...
(16) But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. (17) For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. (18...
He mentions two things in the close: “See that our brethren behold your love,” and secondly, “Take care, that it be not in vain that I have boasted of you.” For αὐτούς (_to them_,) appears to me to be...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
WHEREFORE SHOW YE TO THEM, AND BEFORE THE CHURCHES,.... This is the conclusion of the apostle, upon summing up the characters of these messengers; and his exhortation is, that since they were persons...
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf. Ver. 24. _Wherefore show ye_] As by an ocular demonstration, or as by pointing the fing...
_Whether any inquire_, &c. As if he had said, If any be not yet satisfied, but desire to know more of those persons, and inquire concerning _Titus, he is my partner_ In my cares and labours; _and fell...
THE PROOF OF YOUR LOVE; by furnishing them with a liberal contribution. OUR BOASTING; our commendation of your liberality....
WHEREFORE SHOW YE TO THEM, AND BEFORE THE CHURCHES, THE PROOF OF YOUR LOVE, AND OF OUR BOASTING ON YOUR BEHALF. Having named the motives which should incite the Corinthians to take up the matter of th...
Commendation of Titus and his companions:...
Chapter s 8 and 9 deal with the subject of proper care for poor saints on the part of the assembly. The wisdom and delicacy with which the apostle writes is both admirable and beautiful. He avoids abs...
16-24 The apostle commends the brethren sent to collect their charity, that it might be known who they were, and how safely they might be trusted. It is the duty of all Christians to act prudently; t...
Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf. [As a final commendation, and as one calculated to stop the mouths of all objectors,...
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‘Show you therefore to them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.' Thus to such honoured men they are to show, as it were in the presence of the chur...
HE IS SENDING THREE REPRESENTATIVES TO SEE TO THE COLLECTION AND TO THEIR SPIRITUAL WELFARE, ONE OF WHOM IS TITUS WHOM THEY KNOW WELL (2 CORINTHIANS 8:16). Three was the number of completeness from wh...
2 Corinthians 8:24. Shew ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying in your behalf. ‘By the reception you give to these honoured messengers, shew th...
THE PROOF OF YOUR LOVE (την ενδειξιν της αγαπης υμων). There is a word here for pastors and deacons who try to protect the churches from the denominational representatives of kingdom causes.IN THE...
The apostle is writing concerning a certain collection which was being made for the poor saints of Jerusalem. It was from Jerusalem that the gospel had spread into Greece, and, therefore, those who ha...
CONTENTS: Collection for the poor. Exhortation concerning the grace of giving. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Those who truly love the Lord Jesus Who became poor for our sakes, mak...
2 Corinthians 8:1. _Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God._ Better to say, It is requisite that I should apprise you of the grace that God has conferred on the churches of Macedonia...
SHOW YOUR LOVE TO THEM. These men will eventually report back to the churches they represent. The conduct of the Corinthian church will be proof of all the good things Paul has said about them!...
_But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus._ THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR MINISTERIAL CARE 1. We may look up, and give thanks to God for what they are. 2. We may look...
CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts the Corinthians to imitate the generosity of the Macedonian Christians in sending alms to the poor at Jerusalem. II. He points (ver. 9) to the exampl...
_Therefore shew ye to them._ Show to Titus and his companions that signal love which becomes you and your generous love, as well as my boasting of you....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Observe: 1. 2 Corinthians 8:1 to 2 Corinthians 9:15 is one continuous section, concerned with the _completion_ of the Corinthian contribution to Paul’s great Jerusalem Christian Poor...
EXPOSITION Liberality shown by the Macedonian Churches (2 Corinthians 8:1). He is sending Titus to receive their contribution for the Church of Jerusalem, and he invites them to give according to the...
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit [or we would bring to your remembrance] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their...
2 Corinthians 7:14; 2 Corinthians 8:8; 2 Corinthians 9:2...
THE GRACE OF GIVING 2 Corinthians 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our Lord lifts Christian liberality out of the mire of coercive necessity, into the realm of grace. As introductory to this sermon on giving...
Before the churches — Present by their messengers....