For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
Ver. 13. It is to God] i.e. When to the world we seem mad of pride and vain glory, yet then we respect only God's glory.
It is for your sakes] i.e. For your learning, that we are more modest and sparing in commending our apostleship. It is a good rule, Quicquid agas, propter Deum agas, do all for God's sake.
Verse 2 Corinthians 5:13. _BESIDE OURSELVES_] Probably he was reputed by some to be _deranged_. Festus thought so: _Paul, thou art beside thyself;_ _too much learning hath made thee mad_. And his enem...
FOR WHETHER WE BE BESIDE OURSELVES - This is probably designed to meet some of the charges which the false teachers in Corinth brought against him, and to furnish his friends there with a ready answer...
6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Cons...
The emphasis is on the opening words of 2 Corinthians 5:11. Among the clouds of misrepresentation to which he was exposed was the sneering assertion that in some unworthy sense he persuades or gets ro...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
So then, it is because we know the fear of the Lord that we keep on trying to persuade men, but to God we are already known through and through, and I hope that in your conscience, too, we will come t...
WHETHER, or whether. Greek. _eite_. App-118. BESIDE OURSELVES. See Acts 2:7 (amazed). BE SOBER. be of sound mind. Greek. _sophroneo._ Here, Mark 5:15.Luke 8:35.
_For whether we be besides ourselves_ Literally, WERE beside ourselves, i.e. when we were with you. The reproach of madness was afterwards cast upon St Paul by Festus (Acts 26:24), and may well have b...
The Christian Ministry one of Reconciliation 11. _the terror of the Lord_ i.e. "His to-be-dreaded judgment." Beza. This translation is due to the Geneva Version, following Beza and Calvin (Wiclif, _d...
ΕἼΤΕ ΓᾺΡ ἘΞΈΣΤΗΜΕΝ, ΘΕΩ͂Ι· ΕἼΤΕ ΣΩΦΡΟΝΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ, ὙΜΙ͂Ν. For _whether we_ went mad (it was) FOR _God_; _or whether we are in our right mind_, (it is) FOR YOU. The change from aorist to present must be mar...
_THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS US 2 CORINTHIANS 5:11-15:_ Judgment is pictured as the "terror of the Lord." Certainly coming judgment should cause us to persuade men to repent and to live righteous li...
ΈΞΈΣΤΗΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G1839) выходить из себя, быть вне себя. Это слово обозначает неуравновешенность (Windisch). ΘΕΦ _dat. от_ ΘΕΌΣ (G2316) Бог; _dat._ преимущества, ΣΩΦΡΟΝΟΎΜΕΝ _...
WHETHER WE BE BESIDE OURSELVES,— From this verse to ch. 2 Corinthians 6:12. St. Paul gives another reason for his disinterested carriage in preaching the gospel; and that is, his love to Christ, who b...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Frustration of the Human Soul (2 Corinthians 5:6-15) 6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7for w...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ Motivating Forces Scripture 2 Corinthians 5:11-17 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manife...
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. BE, [ exesteemen (G1839)] - 'have been' in your opinion. The contrast is between the single act (the...
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
5:13 God; (b-10) Or 'for God;' that is, he was as a fool for God's glory. But the sense is, I think, 'If he lost the blessed calculations of love which was his path towards men, it was to be out of hi...
The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...
PARAPHRASE. 'Seeing, then, that we realise the awe inspired by Christ our judge, we try to convince men of our faithfulness and unselfishness: to God, indeed, our sincerity is already manifest, and al...
BESIDE OURSELVES] His enemies declared that he was mad; probably owing to his enthusiasm and vehemence in preaching: cp. Acts 26:24....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 We know this. Our body is like an *earthly tent. If our *earthly tent falls down, we will have a permanent building....
FOR WHETHER WE BE BESIDE OURSELVES. — The recollection of one sneer leads on to another. This also had been said of him, and the intense sensitiveness of his nature made him wince under it. Some there...
CHAPTER 14 THE MEASURE OF CHRIST'S LOVE. 2 Corinthians 5:11 (R.V) THE Christian hope of immortality is elevated and solemnized by the thought of the judgment-seat of Christ. This is no strange thoug...
εἴτε γὰρ ἑξέστημεν κ. τ. λ.: _for whether_ (see on 2 Corinthians 1:6 for constr.) _we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you_ (note the _dat. commodi_)....
REITERATION OF HIS SINCERITY OF PURPOSE....
CONSTRAINED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 5:11 It was of small importance in Paul's eyes what his critics thought of him. He desired only to please his supreme Lord, whether he lived or died, w...
The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Mas...
VERSE 13 Some opposing him might say he was mad. Yet, his madness was all directed in God's service. Even if they saw a sane part of him also, it was aimed at the strengthening of the church. So, they...
(7) For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause. (7) The meaning is: even when I am mad (as some men think of me), while I seem as a fool to boa...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Sive enim mente excedimus, Deo, sive sobrii sumus, vobis, _Greek: eite gar exestemen, theo eite sophronoumen, umin. See Annotation on Mark iii. 21. p. 147. [There is an applicable anno...
(12) For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. (13) For whether w...
13._Whether we are beside ourselves. _This is said by way of concession; for Paul’s glorying was sane, or it was, if we may so term it, a sober and most judicious madness; (542) but as he appeared foo...
What then is the effect of the possession of life in Christ as applied to death and judgment, the two natural objects of men's fears, the fruit of sin? If our bodies are not yet transformed; and if th...
FOR WHETHER WE BE BESIDES OURSELVES,.... As some took them to be, and as Festus thought the Apostle Paul was, because of the doctrines they preached, and the self-commendation they were obliged to ent...
_For whether we be beside ourselves_ As they affirm we are, because we expose ourselves to so many sufferings, and even to the danger of imprisonment and death, by persevering in our work of preaching...
BE BESIDE OURSELVES; go, as some think, beyond all reasonable bounds in our efforts. WHETHER WE BE SOBER; go, as some maintain, to the extreme of caution and prudence. FOR YOUR CAUSE; for the sake o...
PAUL AN AMBASSADOR OF CHRIST. The love of Christ his ruling motive:...
FOR WHETHER WE BE BESIDE OURSELVES, IT IS TO GOD; OR WHETHER WE BE SOBER, IT IS FOR YOUR CAUSE....
Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...
9-15 The apostle quickens himself and others to acts of duty. Well-grounded hopes of heaven will not encourage sloth and sinful security. Let all consider the judgment to come, which is called, The t...
It should seem, that some amongst the Corinthians, amongst other reproaches, had reproached Paul for a madman; either taking advantage of the warmth and fervour of his spirit, or of those ecstasies in...
For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you. [Paul could not appeal to the approval of his character in the sight of God without bringing to hi...
2 Corinthians 5:13 For G1063 G1535 ourselves G1839 (G5627) God G2316 if G1535 mind G4993 (G5719) you...
GOD'S MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION (2 CORINTHIANS 5:11 TO 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2). Having spoken of God's work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of the Chri...
‘For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is to you.' Indeed some of his opponents may say that they were mad. Probably this has reference to his constant...
2 Corinthians 5:13. FOR WHETHER WE ARE BESIDE OURSELVES, IT IS UNTO GOD; OR WHETHER WE ARE OF SOBER MIND, IT IS UNTO YOU: ‘If tarried away by the glory of the message with which we are burdened, we at...
WHETHER WE ARE BESIDE OURSELVES (ειτε εξεστημεν). Second aorist active indicative of εξιστημ, old verb, here to stand out of oneself (intransitive) from εκστασις, ecstasy, comes as in Mark 5:42. It...
2 Corinthians 5:13 Paul's Passion for Christ. I. The Apostle affirms that the distinctive inspiration of his passionate fervour and entire consecration is the person and mission of Jesus Christ "The...
2 Corinthians 5:9. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done...
1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens._ Is not this grand courage on the part of...
CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens._ The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house ma...
ARE WE REALLY INSANE? Some said this about Jesus (Mark 3:21 and note). _MacKnight_ thinks the false teachers accused Paul of being insane because of the risks and dangers he placed himself in for the...
_For we commend not ourselves again unto you._ PAUL’S SELF-COMMENDATION 1. St. Paul has been magnifying his ministry. It had been, he says, a ministry of the Spirit, not of the letter (2 Corinthians...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:13 IF WE ARE BESIDE OURSELVES... IF WE ARE IN OUR RIGHT MIND. This possibly responds to some Corinthians calling Paul crazy. Paul’s motivation is to please Christ...
CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...
_For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause._ The Greek verb translated _beside ourselves_ denotes a rapt state, when the mind is carried out of its...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...
EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:...
This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five. Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, vari...
1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 11:1;...
We are beside ourselves [ε ξ ε σ τ η μ ε ν]. See on Luke 24:22; Acts 2:7; and on the kindred ekstasiv astonishment, Mark 5:42. Some such charge appears to have been made, as at Acts
For if we are transported beyond ourselves — Or at least, appear so to others, treated of, 2 Corinthians 5:15, speaking or writing with uncommon vehemence. It is to God — He understands (if men do not...
The holy apostle was sometimes so zealously transported and carried forth in his high actings for Jesus Christ, that the false apostles represented him as. frantic person, crazy, mad, and what not; "B...