Ye have acknowledged us in part — Though not so fully as ye will do. That we are you rejoicing — That ye rejoice in having known us. As ye also are ours — As we also rejoice in the success of our labours among you; and we trust shall rejoice therein in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 CORINTHIANS 1:14 tou/ kuri,ou @h`mw/n# {C} Although usually the longer readings that involve the sacred names are suspect as scribal expansions, in the present case a majority of the Committee was...
Verse 14. _HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US IN PART_] Απο μερους may signify here not _in part_, but _some of you_; and it is evident, from the distracted state of the Corinthians, and the opposition raised there...
AS ALSO YE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US - You have had occasion to admit my singleness of aim, and purity of intention and of life by your former acquaintance with me; and you have cheerfully done it. “In par...
2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had whe...
2 Corinthians 1:12 to 2 Corinthians 2:17. PAUL SEEKS TO REMOVE MISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE CORINTHIANS. 2 Corinthians 1:12. He has no hesitation in thus asking for their prayer
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
The only boast we make is this--and it is backed by the witness of our conscience--that in the world we have behaved ourselves with the holiness and the purity of God, not with a wisdom dominated by h...
ALSO YE. ye also. HAVE. Omit. IN PART. Greek. _apo merous._. part of you, the faithful ones. REJOICING. ground of boasting. Greek. _kauchema_. See Romans 4:2. THE DAY, &c. See 1 Corinthians 5:5....
The mutual interdependence of St Paul and the Corinthian Church 3. _Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Two feelings rise at once in the Apostle's mind. The first is an overwhel...
_As also_ St Paul connects "the future for which he _hopes_, with the past of which he _knows_." Meyer. _in part_ It is here delicately hinted that the _whole_Corinthian Church did not acknowledge St...
ὍΤΙ ΚΑΎΧΗΜΑ ὙΜΩ͂Ν ἘΣΜΈΝ. YE ACKNOWLEDGED _us in part, that we are your_ GLORYING, or, _because we are your glorying_: the former is better. See on 2 Corinthians 3:14. As distinct from καύχησις (2 Cori...
_ PAUL'S CHANGE OF PLANS 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12-18:_ Paul could rejoice because he had a clear conscience. He lived a simple, honest life with godly sincerity. His desire in all things was to be controlle...
ΈΠΈΓΝΩΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1921) признавать (_см._ 2 Corinthians 1:13). ΆΠ ΜΈΡΟΥΣ (G575; G3313) частично. Эта фраза определяет степень признания (Windisch). ΌΤ (G3754) что. Здесь не п...
THAT WE ARE YOUR REJOICING,— The Apostle here signifies that part of them who adhered to and owned him as their teacher; in which sense _rejoicing,_ or _glorying,_ is much used in these epistles to th...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's defense of His Conduct and Writing Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:12-14. For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Acrimony (2 Corinthians 1:12-24) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and...
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. IN PART. In contrast to "even to the end;" the testimony of his life was...
1 Timothy is associated with Paul in this introduction, as Sosthenes is in the former epistle, yet it is evident that Paul himself wrote both epistles, for he continually refers to himself in them, an...
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...
IN PART] Some had been faithful all the time. THE DAY OF THE LORD JESUS] the second coming (cp. 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:19), which the Christians believed to be at hand. 15, 16. The Apo...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...
AS ALSO YE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED. — The parenthetical clause (better, _ye did acknowledge_) comes in to qualify the fear which had been partly veiled by the hope. They had done him some, though not adequa...
CHAPTER 2 FAITH BORN OF DESPAIR. 2 Corinthians 1:8 (R.V) PAUL seems to have felt that the thanksgiving with which he opens this letter to the Corinthians was so peculiar as to require explanation. I...
THEY MUST ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SINCERITY OF PURPOSE. He claims that he has always been frank and open in his dealings with the Corinthian Christians: _cf._ 1 Thessalonians 2:3. ἡ γὰρ καύχησις κ. τ. λ.: _fo...
καθὼς καὶ ἐπέγνωτε κ. τ. λ.: _as also ye did acknowledge us in part; i.e., some_ of them made this acknowledgment, but not all (1 Corinthians 3:4). ὅτι καύχημα ὑμῶν ἐσμεν : _that_ (not “because”) _we...
SINCERE LIKE HIS MASTER 2 Corinthians 1:12 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16. As we pass out of this life, and stand in the revealing dawn of...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your (m) rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the (n) day of the Lord Jesus. (m) Paul's rejoicing in the Lord was that he had won the Corinthi...
(12) For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, an...
14._For we are your glorying. _We have briefly adverted to the manner in which it is allowable for saints to glory in God’s benefits — when they repose themselves in God alone, and have no other objec...
The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...
AS ALSO YOU HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US IN PART,.... This may refer either to the thing known and acknowledged, namely, the integrity of the apostle's conversation, and others; which though they did not know...
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also _are_ ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. Ver. 14. _You have acknowledged in part_] _q.d._ You ought to have done i...
_For_, &c. I am more imboldened to look for this, because I am conscious of my integrity; seeing _our rejoicing is this_ Even in the deepest adversity, a rejoicing which no external calamities can imp...
IN PART; he makes this limitation because there were some in Corinth who did not acknowledge his worth and authority as an apostle of Jesus Christ....
AS ALSO YE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US IN PART THAT WE ARE YOUR REJOICING, EVEN AS YE ALSO ARE OURS IN THE DAY OF THE LORD JESUS. In expecting that the Corinthians would give thanks on his account as for a g...
PAUL'S VINDICATION OF HIS CONDUCT AND LIFE. The sincerity of his purpose:...
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
12-14 Though, as a sinner, the apostle could only rejoice and glory in Christ Jesus, yet, as a believer, he might rejoice and glory in being really what he professed. Conscience witnesses concerning...
IN PART, may either refer to persons or things; part of you have so owned and acknowledged us, though others of you have abused us. Or you have _in part, _ or at some times, owned us, that you had cau...
as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. [1 Corinthians 3:13. If my words sound boastful, my conscience justifies me in...
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‘For we write no other things to you than what you read (anaginosko) or even understand (epignosko), and I hope you will understand (epiginosko) to the end (or ‘completely'), as also you understood (e...
AS ALSO YE DID ACKNOWLEDGE US IN PART (καθως κα επεγνωτε ημας απο μερους). Gracious acknowledgment (second aorist active indicative of επιγνωσκω) to the original Pauline party (1 Corinthians 1:12; 1...
DAY OF (_ See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 1:8). _...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleshi...
CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...
ONLY IN PART. "Some of you already understand that I write you the truth in frankness and sincerity. I hope that all of you will come to understand that. In the Day when Christ judges the world, I wan...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:14 THE DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS assigns to Jesus the divine and messianic role of judge that God the Father holds on “the day of the LORD” (e.g.,...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12 Paul offers a detailed defense of why he had changed his mind more than once about returning to Corinth. The process included: (1) an initial plan to visit Mac...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:1 Paul’s Defense of His Ministry as an Apostle. Paul’s ministry reflects the work of the Holy Spirit. ⇐
SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS He consoles the Corinthians, whom in the First Epistle he had sharply rebuked, and absolves the excommunicated fornicator, who was now penitent....
_We are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours._ We are the object of your rejoicing as your teachers; ye, as good disciples, are the object of our rejoicing; and this rejoicing will chiefly be seen...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:12. REJOICING.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically...
Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...
1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 11:18; 1 Corinthians 15:31; 1 Corinthians 3:21;...
In part [α π ο μ ε ρ ο υ ς]. Referring to the partial understanding of his character and motives by the Corinthians. 15 Before [π ρ ο τ ε ρ ο ν]. Rather, first of all. Instead of going first to the M...
Observe here, 1. The great trial which St. Paul met with from the Corinthians, whose spiritual father he was: though he had served them with great faithfulness, yet they did ACKNOWLEDGE HIM BUT IN PAR...