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 a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowly Saviour.
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:7. _DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE?_] Do not be carried away with _appearances_; do not be satisfied with _show_ and _parade_. _IF ANY MAN TRUST TO HIMSELF...
DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE? - This is addressed evidently to the members of the church, and with reference to the claims which had been set up by the false teachers. There can b...
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...
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...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
LOOK ON. Greek. _blepo._ App-13. OUTWARD APPEARANCE. Greek. _prosopon,_ as in 2 Corinthians 10:1. IF. App-118. ANY MAN. any one. Greek. _tis_. App-123. TRUST. Greek. _peitho._ App-150. OF. from....
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...
ἘΦʼ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂ (אBL 21, Latt.) rather than ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ (CDFGKP). After the first ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ DFG, dfg add δοῦλος, which is correct as a gloss, and after ΚΑῚ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ D3KL, Copt add Χριστοῦ. 7. ΤᾺ ΚΑΤᾺ ΠΡΌΣΩΠΟΝ...
_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...
ΚΑΤΆ ΠΡΌΣΩΠΟΝ (G2596; G4383) судя по лицу; то есть "перед вашим лицом" ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act._ или, скорее, _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) смотреть. "Смотрите на то, что перед вашими глазами...
_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...
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...
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. Do ye rega...
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...
10:7 appearance? (l-7) See ver. 1....
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...
(_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...
DO YE LOOK, etc.] RV 'Ye look at the things that are before your face.' AS HE _is_ CHRIST'S, EVEN SO _are_ WE] St. Paul claims that his relation to Christ is as close as that of any of his opponents:...
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...
DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE? — The Greek sentence may be taken either as interrogative, imperative, or indicative. The latter “ye look on things...” gives the most satisfactory m...
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...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
τὰ κατὰ προσ. κ. τ. λ.: _ye look at the things which are before your face; i.e._, you pay too much attention to outward appearances (_cf._ Romans 2:11; Galatians 2:6; Ephesians 6:9), you lay too much...
MIGHTY WITH SPIRITUAL WEAPONS 2 Corinthians 10:1 Paul here makes his defense. Some who resisted his authority spoke disparagingly of his weak body and uneloquent speech. Why should they yield so abso...
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 7 Some were looking at the outside to determine value. Such is a shallow measure. Paul was at least equal to those who opposed him (Acts 9:15; Acts 15:25; Galatians 2:9)....
(4) Do ye look on things after the (e) outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of (f) himself think this again, that, as he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ'...
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...
7._That are according to appearance. _In the first place, the clause _according to appearance_, may be taken in two ways: either as meaning the reality itself, visible and manifest, or an outward mask...
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...
DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE,.... Or "look upon things", ironically said; or "ye do look on things", a reproof for making judgment of persons and things, by the outward appearance...
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. Ver. 7....
_Do ye look on the outward appearance of things_ Judging of me by my outward person, and the infirmities of my body, (2 Corinthians 10:1,) and not from the power of Christ resting on me, and working b...
LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE; regard men simply according to their outward condition and relations....
Paul's authority is powerful:...
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....
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...
Are ye so weak as to judge of persons and things merely from their faces, pretences, or outward appearances? And to magnify these false apostles and teachers, merely because they set forth and magnify...
Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we. [You false...
2 Corinthians 10:7 at G991 (G5719) according G2596 appearance G4383 anyone G1536 convinced G3982 (G5754) himself...
‘You look at (or ‘Look at') the things that are before your face. If any man trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are...
2 Corinthians 10:7. DO YE LOOK AT THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE? (The _interrogative_ form of this clause is, we think, with Meyer, Alford, etc., more natural and lively than the _indicative,_ a...
YE LOOK (Βλεπετε). Either indicative or imperative. Either makes sense but the indicative the best sense.BEFORE YOUR FACE (κατα προσωπον). They ought to look below the surface. If it is imperativ...
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...
ON THE OUTSIDE. "Don't let anyone's claim to authority keep you from seeing that I am an apostle. You have been looking at external things, and you are confused by this and don't really know who does...
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...
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 14:37; 1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 1 Corinthians 9:1;...
Do ye look at the outward appearance of things — Does any of you judge of a minister of Christ by his person, or any outward circumstance? Let him again think this of himself — Let him learn it from h...
Because the false apostles had taught the Corinthians to despise St. Paul, upon the account of his mean appearance; he here expostulates with them, and desires to know whether they would judge of men...