I answer this lying accusation by appealing to plain fact. Did I make a gain of you by Titus — Or any other of my messengers? You know the contrary. It should be carefully observed, that St. Paul does not allow, but absolutely denies, that he had caught them with guile; so that the common plea for guile, which has been often drawn from this text, is utterly without foundation.
Verse 17. _DID I MAKE A GAIN OF YOU_] Did any person I ever sent to preach the Gospel to you, or help you in your Christian course, ever get any thing from you for me? Produce the proof if you can....
DID I MAKE A GAIN ... - In refuting this slander, Paul appeals boldly to the facts, and to what they knew. “Same the man,” says he, “who has thus defrauded you under my instructions. If the charge is...
3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apos...
RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corin...
I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have been...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
DID I. The question, expecting. negative answer, is introduced by _me_. MAKE. GAIN. Greek. _pleonekteo._ See 2 Corinthians 2:11. BY. Greek. _dia_. App-104. 2 Corinthians 12:1. ANY. Greek. _tis_, as...
_make a gain of you_ See ch. 2 Corinthians 2:11. _by any of them whom I sent unto you_ They may have been maintained at the expense of the Churches, but they certainly made no attempt to enrich St Pau...
Continuation of the Defence 11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
17, 18. By a series of rapid questions (comp. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16; 2 Corinthians 11:22) he shows how baseless the insinuation is. In his eager refutation of the slander he breaks the construction, a...
17. _Did_ _I_ BY MEANS OF ANY ONE OF THOSE _whom_ _I_ HAVE _sent unto you_, TAKE ADVANTAGE (2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:6)
14–18. He changes from irony to affectionate earnestness, telling them that he must continue the ἀδικία of working for nothing, and explaining why this must be so. It is still quite evident that he is...
_ PAUL'S CONCERN FOR CORINTH 2 CORINTHIANS 12:14-21:_ Paul planned a third visit to Corinth. Even then he did not want to be a burden to them. He said, "What I really want is you, and not what you hav...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Intended Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 12:14-21. Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but y...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18) 11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Paul's reply: You know well I did not. My associates were as disinterested as myself. An important rule to all who would influence othe...
14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...
HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...
PARAPHRASE. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not your possessions but your very selves that I want; for you are my sp...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
BY ANY OF THEM WHOM I SENT UNTO YOU? — The English expresses the meaning of the Greek, but does not show, as that does, the vehement agitation which led the writer, as he dictated the letter, to begin...
CHAPTER 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corinthians 12:...
μή τινα ὧν κ. τ. λ.: _of those whom_ (ὧν by attraction for ἐκείνων οὕς) _I have sent, was there one by whom I took advantage of you?_ The constr. is broken, and the resulting anacoluthon is one of the...
THAT HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE AT CORINTH WAS DISINTERESTED ON HIS PART....
“I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU” 2 Corinthians 12:11 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he diverged at...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...
VERSES 17-18. Since he had taken no money personally, they apparently accused him of using Titus and the others to take money for a false collection. Paul wants to know if Titus received wages of them...
I caught you by guile. He answers an objection or suspicion of his adversaries, as if he took no presents himself, but employed others to do it for him: he appeals to them, if Titus did not serve them...
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...
Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
DID I MAKE A GAIN OF YOU,.... He appeals to the Corinthians against such calumnies and false insinuations, whether ever he had circumvented them in such a manner, or had ever used such artful methods...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Ver. 17. _Whom I sent unto you_] It is said of the pope, that he can never lack money so long as he can hold a pen in his hand; he can co...
_Be it so_, &c. But some may object; though _I did not burden you_ Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet _being crafty, I caught you with guile_ I did secretly by my messengers what I wou...
Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:...
DID I MAKE A GAIN OF YOU BY ANY OF THEM WHOM I SENT UNTO YOU?...
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...
Ver. 17,18. The apostle, to avoid or wipe off this imputation, appealeth to themselves to name any person (whom he had sent unto them) that had taken any thing of them for his use. He saith, that he _...
Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?...
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HE ASSURES THEM OF HIS CARE FOR THEM (2 CORINTHIANS 12:14). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This suggests t...
‘Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent to you?' Did any of the people whom he sent take advantage of them? Did they come away with any money which would benefit Paul? Let th...
2 Corinthians 12:17. DID I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU BY ANY ONE OF THEM WHOM I HAVE SENT UNTO YOU? 2 Corinthians 12:18. I EXHORTED (or charged) TITUS, AND I SENT THE BROTHER WITH HIM (probably one of the...
DID I TAKE ADVANTAGE (επλεονεκτησα). Paul goes right to the point without hedging. For this verb from πλεον and εχω, to have more, see on 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 7:2.BY ANY ONE OF THEM ...
CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to be...
2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
HOW? How could he have done anything like this??? None of the messengers Paul sent _made slaves_ of the Corinthians as the false teachers had done (2 Corinthians 11:20)....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:16 CRAFTY... DECEIT... TAKE ADVANTAGE. Paul rejects the idea that he used the collection to take money from the Corinthians. There is no evidence for such a char...
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
_Did I make a gain of you_? Did I defraud you, and extort your money from you? Or with Vatablus, Did I fleece you? Or, with Ambrose, Was I covetous towards you? VER. 19. _Again, think ye that we excus...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11
It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...
1 Corinthians 16:10; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 12:18; 2 Kings 5:16;...