Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 2:11
Lest Satan — To whom he had been delivered, and who sought to destroy not only his flesh, but his soul also. Get an advantage over us — For the loss of one soul is a common loss.
Lest Satan — To whom he had been delivered, and who sought to destroy not only his flesh, but his soul also. Get an advantage over us — For the loss of one soul is a common loss.
Verse 2 Corinthians 2:11. _LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE_] If the man who has given sufficient proof of the sincerity of his repentance be not restored, he may be overwhelmed with sorrow, and si...
LEST SATAN - The devil. The name Satan denotes an adversary, an accuser, an enemy. It is the usual proper name which is given to the devil, the great adversary of God and man. SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE...
3. HIS DEEP EXERCISE CONCERNING THEM. YET OVERCOMING. CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Burden of his Soul. (2 Corinthians 2:1 .)_ 2. Concerning the Brother who had been Disciplined. (2 Corinthians 2:5 .) 3. Over...
Someone in the congregation at Corinth who had done wrong is now to be forgiven. There are still some scholars who think that the person here referred to is the same as the wrong-doer of 1 Corinthians...
WHEN A SAINT REBUKES (2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4)...
If anyone has caused grief, it is not I whom he has grieved, but to some extent--not to overstress the situation--all of you. To such a man the punishment that has been imposed by the majority is suff...
SATAN, &c. Literally should be overreached _(Greek. pleonekteo._ Here, 2Co 7:2. 2 Corinthians 12:17; 2 Corinthians 12:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:6) BY (Greek. _hupo_, as
_Lest Satan should get an advantage of us_ See note on 1 Corinthians 5:10. The word signifies (1) to have more, (2) to be greedy, and hence (3) to overreach, to defraud. _devices_ The word properly me...
ἽΝΑ ΜῊ ΠΛΕΟΝΕΚΤΗΘΩ͂ΜΕΝ ὙΠῸ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΑΤΑΝΑ͂. THAT WE BE NOT OVERREACHED BY SATAN. Comp. 2 Corinthians 7:2; 2 Corinthians 12:17-18; 1 Thessalonians 4:6. Here only is the verb used in the passive. T
5–11. Having vindicated himself with regard to the charge of levity (2 Corinthians 1:15 to 2 Corinthians 2:4), he now goes on to vindicate his treatment of the grievous offender. It used to be assumed...
_LEST SATAN GET AN ADVANTAGE 2 CORINTHIANS 2:5-11:_ Paul realized that he was not the only one that had been made to feel bad by the fornicator in the church. Here Paul does not mention specifically t...
ΠΛΕΟΝΕΚΤΗΘΏΜΕΝ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΕΟΝΕΚΤΈΩ (G4122) наживаться на чем-л., обманывать. Это нахальное, жадное использование кого-л., часто с помощью обмана и плутовства (Martin; NTW; TDNT; TLNT, 3:1...
DISCOURSE: 2003 THE DEVICES OF SATAN EXPOSED 2 Corinthians 2:11. _We are not ignorant of his devices_. MEN in general think but little of Satan and his agency: yet is he the most formidable adversary...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Discord (2 Corinthians 2:1-11) 2 For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. 2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The One Who Caused Sorrow Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 2:5-11. But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all...
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Literally, 'That we may have no advantage gained over us by Satan'-namely, by letting one member be lost to us thro...
21 The operation of God's Spirit is here seen under three distinct figures: the anointing, the seal, and the earnest. Prophets and priests and kings were anointed for their office. They were anointed...
_(B) 2:8-13. THE OBJECT AND RESULTS OF THE SEVERE LETTER_ The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter he wrote before. He then speaks of one man who has cau...
PARAPHRASE. 'I forgive any one whom you forgive; for I have no personal feeling in the matter, and it is only for your sakes that I speak of forgiveness at all, and I forgive in the spirit of Christ....
GET AN ADVANTAGE] by the man being lost to Christ, or by the estrangement of the Apostle and the Corinthians; perhaps both. 12, 13. St. Paul had gone from Ephesus to Troas on the coast of Asia Minor a...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 CH1V23 God is my witness. I did not return to Corinth in order to save you from a difficult situation. V24 We are not t...
LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US. — Literally, _lest we should be cheated_ (or _out-maneuvered_) _by Satan._ The phraseology is that of one who is, as it were, playing a game against the Tempt...
CHAPTER 6 CHURCH DISCIPLINE. 2 Corinthians 2:5 (R.V) IN verses 5-11 2 Corinthians 2:5 of this Epistle, St. Paul said a great deal about sorrow, the sorrow he felt on the one hand, and the sorrow he...
CHAPTER 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 2:1 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends himself from the charge of levity and untrustworthiness by app...
THE OFFENDER HAS BEEN SUFFICIENTLY PUNISHED: THE APOSTLE ACQUIESCES IN THEIR REMISSION OF THE PENALTY OF 1 Corinthians 5:1-5....
ἵνα μὴ πλεονεκτηθῶμεν κ. τ. λ.: _lest we, sc._, you and I together, _be robbed by Satan; i.e._, lest we drive sinners to despair and so let Satan capture them from us. “The offender was to be delivere...
TENDER-HEARTED AND FORGIVING 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 2:1 In these opening words Paul evidently refers to the sin mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:1. His judgment had been strong
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with many tears." Referring thus to his first letter, Paul...
DISCIPLINE THAT WORKED Paul wrote his first letter to the church in Corinth in an effort to get them to change. Specifically, he was concerned that they were tolerating sin. He directed them to withdr...
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his (i) devices. (i) Of his mischievous counsel and devilish will....
In the name and in the person of Christ, I ordered him to be excommunicated; in the same, I order him now to be re-admitted into your communion, and this for your sake. We ought to take care that the...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? (3) And...
_SATAN’S DEVICES_ ‘We are not ignorant of his devices.’ 2 Corinthians 2:11 The personality of Satan is a fact too well established in our own experience for any of us to doubt its reality. He is th...
11._That we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. _This may be viewed as referring to what he had said previously respecting excessive sorrow. For it is a most wicked (330) fraud of Satan, when depr...
But had there been any lightness in his decisions, since, as he now informed them, he had intended to visit them on his way to Macedonia (where he was at the moment of writing this letter), and then a...
LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US,.... Or make gain of us, or we should be circumvented by him; a metaphor taken from covetous persons, who take every occasion, and make use of every advantage...
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Ver. 11. _Lest Satan_] That wily merchant, that greedy bloodsucker, that devoureth not widows' houses, but most men's...
_Sufficient to such a man_ With what remarkable tenderness does the apostle treat this offender! He never once mentions his name, nor does he here so much as mention his crime; but speaks of him in th...
LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US; by leading them to be needlessly severe, to the injury of the offender and of religion. HIS DEVICES; in tempting men to sinful extremes. Satan is an artful a...
LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US; FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF HIS DEVICES. This paragraph is a model of loving, pastoral tact and delicacy. There can be but little doubt that Paul is referring...
The case of the notorious sinner:...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reason delayed his visit. For his First Epistle was suc...
5-11 The apostle desires them to receive the person who had done wrong, again into their communion; for he was aware of his fault, and much afflicted under his punishment. Even sorrow for sin should...
OLBGrk; As I have done it in kindness to you, so I have also done it for the advantage both of that person, who is so forgiven, and of your whole church, which is concerned in the welfare or miscarria...
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. [There is a close correlation between verse 10 and 1 Corinthians 5:3. There Paul identified himself with the c...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI The Father, on the other hand, alone, without copulation, has produced (an offspring). She wished to emulate the Father,[67]...
2 Corinthians 2:11 lest G3363 Satan G5259 G4567 advantage G4122 (G5686) for G1063 not G3756 ignorant G50 ...
‘But to whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the presence of Christ, so that no advantage may be gained over u...
2 Corinthians 2:11. THAT NO ADVANTAGE MAY BE GAINED OVER US BY SATAN; FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF HIS DEVICES. The personality and agency of Satan (as Alford well remarks) could hardly be expressed mor...
THAT NO ADVANTAGE MAY BE GAINED OVER US (ινα μη πλεονεκτηθωμεν). First aorist passive subjunctive after ινα μη (negative purpose) of πλεονεκτεω, old verb from πλεονεκτης, a covetous man (1 Corinthia...
2 Corinthians 2:11 I. Satan endeavours to keep men from Christ, knowing well that the spiritual life will not thrive on anything but Christ; he endeavours to substitute anything else, no matter what,...
CONTENTS: Forgiving those who have fallen into sin. The ministry of the Christian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus, an erring brother, Satan. CONCLUSION: When a brother is truly penitent for hi...
2 Corinthians 2:1. _But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness;_ but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The offender, a man no doubt much known in the city, had la...
TO KEEP SATAN FROM. "A harsh, unforgiving spirit, will allow Satan to get an upper hand over us! Satan, making us think it is a matter of duty and loyalty, tempts us to adopt harsh measures, to drive...
_But if any have caused grief _ THE AIM OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE is in the last resort the restoration of the fallen. The Church has, of course, an interest of its own to guard i it is bound to protest...
_Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices._ SATAN’S DEVICES We who “are called to be saints” are not ignorant of his devices. We know them, what they are, whe...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 2:11 Satan’s DESIGNS are to destroy the mutual forgiveness, love, and unity that is to characterize God’s people (see...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 2:5 The majority in Corinth had expressed their repentance by punishing the leader of the rebellion against Paul. Paul now calls them to follow his own Christlike e...
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares that he had not come to them through fear of causing sadness to himself and to them. II. He exhorts them (ver. 6) to re-admit the fornicator, on his...
_Lest Satan should get an advantage over us._ Lest we be deceived, and lest that fornicator be, by excessive severity, driven by Satan to despair. The Greek verb means, lest we be seized unjustly, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_N.B_.—_The paragraph really begins at_ 2 Corinthians 1:23.) 2 Corinthians 1:1. DETERMINED.—As in 1 Corinthians 2:2. FOR MYSELF.—So R.V., meaning, “For m
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus (2 Corinthians 2:1). Their treatment of the incestuous offender (2 Corinthians 2:5). His thankfulness at the news whi...
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness (2 Corinthians 2:1). "I wrote a heavy letter to you, but I was determined that I wasn't going to come again in heavi...
1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 Chronicles 21:2; 1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Peter 5:8;...
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us [ι ν α μ η π λ ε ο ν ε κ τ η θ ω μ ε ν υ π ο τ ο υ σ α τ α ν α]. Lit., in order that we be not made gain of, or overreached, by Satan. Rev., that no advantage...