Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Corinthians 8:4
Bringing what they had freely collected amongst themselves to the apostles, and importuning them to receive it at their hands, and to take upon them the work of distributing it.
Bringing what they had freely collected amongst themselves to the apostles, and importuning them to receive it at their hands, and to take upon them the work of distributing it.
Verse 2 Corinthians 8:4. _PRAYING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY_] We had not to _solicit_ _them_ to this great act of kindness; they even _entreated us_ to accept their bounty, and to take on ourselves the ad...
PRAYING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY - Earnestly entreating me to receive the contribution and convey it to the poor and afflicted saints in Judea. AND TAKE UPON US THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MINISTERING TO THE S...
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, 9. THE COLLECTION FOR POOR CHRISTIANS AT JERUSALEM. Paul attached the highest importance to this collection, to which he seems to have invited all the Gentile churches to contribute....
Brothers, we want you to know about the grace of God which was given in the Churches of Macedonia. We want you to know that even when they were going through a severe test of their faith when things w...
AN APPEAL FOR GENEROSITY (2 Corinthians 8:1-15)...
PRAYING. Asking. Greek. _deomai._ App-134. WITH. Greek. _meta_. App-104. INTREATY. exhortation. Greek. _paraklesis._ See Acts 4:36, and Acts 13:15, THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE. The texts omit, and read,...
_intreaty Monestynge_, Wiclif; _instaunce_, Tyndale. _Exhortation_, Rhemish. See note on ch. 2 Corinthians 1:3. _that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship_ A more literal renderi...
4. After εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους the Rec. and A.V. follow some cursives and inferior authorities in adding δέξασθαι ἡμᾶς to fill up the sense. 4. The A.V. is here misleading. What is meant is not what the Ma...
3–5. The main clause in this long sentence is ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ἜΔΩΚΑΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΚΥΡΊΩΙ: _totam periochae structuram sustinet_ (Bengel). Of this self-sacrifice four things are stated: (1) it was to the extent of the...
_FIRST GAVE THEMSELVES TO THE LORD 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1-6:_ Paul made known to these brethren that he considered both the opportunity to give and their willingness to give to be of the grace of God. Phil...
ΠΑΡΑΚΛΉΣΕΩΣ (G3874) _gen. sing._ мольба, просьба, ΔΕΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΔΈΟΜΑΙ (G1189) просить, молить, КОΙΝΩΝΊΑ (G2842) содружество, товарищество (TDNT). ΔΙΑΚΟΝΊΑ (G1248) служение...
DISCOURSE: 2032 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR 2 Corinthians 8:1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia; how that in a great trial of affliction the ab...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Privilege of Giving Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 8:1-6. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; 2 how that...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Commitment (2 Corinthians 8:1-7) 8 We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedonia, 2for in a severe test of aff...
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; THEY (WERE) WILLING - rather supply from , 'According to their power ... yea, and beyond their power...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
8:4 grace (i-12) The 'grace' here is not the collection, but the grace and favour shown to the poor in the gift. Instead of Paul having to press this grace on the Macedonians, they beg of him the gra...
_(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...
THE MINISTERING] On the collection see Intro. The RV gives a better meaning: 'Beseeching us with much intreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints.' They desir...
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...
PRAYING US WITH MUCH INTREATY... — The words “that we would receive” are not in the Greek, which literally runs: _asking of us the grace_ (or _favour_)_ and fellowship in the ministry of the saints, i...
CHAPTER 20 THE GRACE OF LIBERALITY. 2 Corinthians 8:1 (R.V) WITH the eighth chapter begins the second of the three great divisions of this Epistle. It is concerned exclusively with the collection wh...
αὐθαίρετοι μετὰ πολλ. παρακ. κ. τ. λ.: _of their own accord begging of us with much entreaty_ (the constr. is clumsy but perhaps unbroken; we should expect ἔδωκαν after αὐθαίρετοι, but the verb is fou...
THE LIBERALITY OF THE MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AN EXAMPLE TO CORINTH....
STIMULATING TO LIBERALITY 2 Corinthians 8:1 Surely the plea for a generous gift of money toward the collection which Paul was making for the poor saints in Jerusalem, could not have been more tenderl...
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 4 They then begged Paul to deliver the money to those in need in Jerusalem....
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the (d) gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. (d) He calls that "gift" which other men would have called a burd...
Begging of us the grace, &c. We may translate, benevolence, or charity, meaning their charitable alms or contributions. It also may be called a grace, a favour, or a charity, which they did for the po...
(1) Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; (2) How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abound...
4._Beseeching us with much entreaty. _He enlarges upon their promptitude, inasmuch as they did not only not wait for any one to admonish them, but even _besought _those, by whom they would have been a...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
PRAYING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY,.... They not only gave freely, being unasked by the apostles; but they sought to them, and earnestly entreated them, THAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE THE GIFT; the beneficence,...
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and _take upon us_ the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. Ver. 4. _Receive the gift_] Gr. χαριν, the grace, _i.e._ the alms; it...
_For to their power_, &c. According to their ability, _yea, and beyond their_ ability; _they were willing of themselves_ Without our soliciting them. This, as Macknight justly observes, is no hyperbol...
PRAYING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY-MINISTERING TO THE SAINTS; according to another and a more literal rendering, Asking of us with much entreaty the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints...
PRAYING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE THE GIFT, AND TAKE UPON US THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MINISTERING TO THE SAINTS....
PAUL'S TACTFUL APPEAL AND RECOMMENDATION. The example of the Macedonian churches:...
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...
1-6 The grace of God must be owned as the root and fountain of all the good in us, or done by us, at any time. It is great grace and favour from God, if we are made useful to others, and forward to a...
beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:...
2 Corinthians 8:4 imploring G1189 (G5740) us G2257 with G3326 much G4183 urgency G3874 we G2248 receive G1209
A PLEA CONCERNING THE PAYING OF THEIR ‘DEBT' TO THE JERUSALEM CHURCH BY MEANS OF ‘THE COLLECTION' WHICH WAS TO BE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE EXTREME POVERTY OF THE SAINTS IN THAT CHURCH AND WHICH WOULD ITS...
‘For according to their power, I bear witness, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering...
2 Corinthians 8:3. FOR ACCORDING TO THEIR POWER, YEA, AND BEYOND THEIR POWER, _THEY GAVE _ OF THEIR OWN ACCORD. 2 Corinthians 8:4. BESEECHING US WITH MUCH ENTREATY. The apostle would hardly let them g...
BESEECHING US WITH MUCH INTREATY IN REGARD OF THIS GRACE (μετα πολλης παρακλησεως δεομενο ημων την χαριν). Literally, "with much intreaty begging of us the favour and the partnership in the ministry...
Although this is rather a practical than a spiritual chapter, I hope that we shall get profit out of it by the teaching of the Spirit of God who inspired Paul to write it. Paul was writing to the chur...
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...
THEY BEGGED US. "This is how eager they were to have a part in this good work, and they looked at it as being a privilege!" As Jesus freely gave himself, so Christians are to share with needy brothers...
_The grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia._ THE GRACE OF LIBERALITY I. True liberality is a Christian grace--as truly a grace as knowledge, diligence, and love. What light this throws...
_How that in a great trial … the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty._ THE POVERTY OF THE MACEDONIANS The condition of Greece in the time of Augustus was one of desolation and distress. It...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 8:2 NOT AS WE EXPECTED. God’s grace was shown since the Macedonians gave even though they were poor. GAVE THEMSELVES FIRST TO THE LORD. The Macedonians recommitted...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1 Paul’s Appeal to the Repentant Church Regarding the Collection. In view of 2 Corinthians 7:2, Paul encourages t
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...
_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...
1 Corinthians 16:1; 1 Corinthians 16:15; 1 Corinthians 16:3; 1 Corinthians 16:4;...
Praying us - that we would receive the gift and take upon us the fellowship [δ ε ο μ ε ν ο ι η μ ω ν τ η ν χ α ρ ι ν κ α ι τ η ν κ ο ι ν ω ν ι α ν]. Rev., beseeching us, etc., in regard of this grace...
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...
Praying us with much entreaty — Probably St. Paul had lovingly admonished them not to do beyond their power....