That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Ver. 9. Terrify you by letters] As the false apostles object against me. Aspersions must be carefully cleared, when the fruit of a man's ministry is thereby impeached and impeded.
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:9. _THAT I MAY NOT SEEM_, c.] This is an elliptical sentence, and may be supplied thus: "I have not used this authority nor will I add any more concerning this part of the subje...
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM ... - The meaning of this verse seems to be this. “I say that I might boast more of my power in order that I may not appear disposed to terrify you with my letters merely. I do not...
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...
THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina._ TERRIFY. Greek. _ekphobeo._ Only here....
_that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters_ Literally, by means of THE letters, i.e. this and the two former. See note on 1 Corinthians 5:9. The connection of thought is not clear at fi...
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...
ἽΝΑ ΜῊ ΔΌΞΩ ὩΣ ἊΝ ἘΚΦΟΒΕΙ͂Ν ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΤΩ͂Ν ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΩ͂Ν. The construction is uncertain; but it is very forced to make 2 Corinthians 10:9 the protasis of 2 Corinthians 10:11, with 2 Corinthians 10:10 as a
_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...
ΔΌΞΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ (G1380) являться, казаться. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель или результат, ΏΣΆΝ = ΏΣ (G5613) ΆΝ (G302) как будто бы (М, 167). ΈΚΦΟΒΕΊΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΈΚΦΟΒΈ...
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...
_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...
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. Billroth: 'I say this (that our authority is for your edification, not destruction) lest I should seem to frighten you.' But what Paul wish...
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...
(_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...
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...
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...
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS. — The logical sequence of thought is: “I say this” (_i.e.,_ that my sentence of delivery to Satan will not be a hollow form) “in order that I...
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...
ἵνα μὴ δόξω κ. τ. λ.: _that I may not seem as if I would scare you by my letters_. It is best to take these words with εἰς οἰκοδομήν of the preceding verse; his purpose in writing so severely is not t...
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 9 Paul could back his strong letters with power if it was necessary when he arrived....
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...
9_That I may not seem to terrify_. Again he touches on the calumny which he had formerly refuted, (2 Corinthians 10:2,) that he was bold in his writings, while in their presence his courage failed him...
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...
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS. Here seems to be something wanting, which is to be supplied, The sense is, though I might lawfully boast of the superior authority which we ap...
_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,...
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM; supply at the beginning of this verse, And this I say, in respect to my not being ashamed. TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS; by empty threats in my letters, which I have no power to fulfil...
Paul's authority is powerful:...
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS....
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...
This was one imputation upon the apostle, as we may learn by the next verse. I tell you, saith the apostle, that I have an authority, and a further authority than those who vilify me can pretend unto:...
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters....
Tertullian On Modesty Come, now, if he had not "wholly saddened" so many persons in the first Epistle; if he had "rebuked" none, had "terrified"[150]...
2 Corinthians 10:9 lest G3363 seem G1380 (G5661) to G5613 G302 terrify G1629 (G5721) you G5209 by...
‘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 10:9. THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY MY LETTERS that is, ‘by my letters only, and at a distance:' ‘Some seem to think that though I can write terrifying letters, I will...
AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY MY LETTERS (ως αν εκφοβειν υμας δια των επιστολων). This use of ως αν with the infinitive is seen in the papyri (Moulton, _Prolegomena_, p. 167) and it is not αν in the...
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...
TO APPEAR. Paul writes, not to frighten them, but to build them up! Compare Galatians 4:20....
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 10:9 ABSENT... PRESENT. See note on v. 1. ⇐...
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; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 10:10...
That I may not seem. The construction is abrupt. Probably something is to be supplied, as I say this in order that I may not seem, etc....
I say this, that I may not seem to terrify you by letters — Threatening more than I can perform....
Our apostle here goes on, vindicating himself from the aspersions and reflections which the false teachers cast upon him. They told the Corinthians, that St. Paul's letters were indeed severe and auth...