Receive us — The sum of what is said in this, as well as in the tenth and following chapters. We have hurt no man — In his person. We have corrupted no man — In his principles. We have defrauded no man — Of his property. In this he intimates likewise the good he had done them, but with the utmost modesty, as it were not looking upon it.
Verse 2 Corinthians 7:2. _RECEIVE US_] χωρησατε ημας. This address is variously understood. _Receive us_ into your _affections_-love us as we love you. _Receive us_ as your _apostles_ and teachers; we...
RECEIVE US - Tyndale renders this: “understand us.” The word used here (χωρήσατε chōrēsate) means properly, give space, place, or room; and it means here evidently, make place or room for us in you...
8. THE APOSTLE'S EXHORTATIONS AND REJOICINGS. CHAPTER 6:14-7 _ 1. His Exhortations. (2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 .)_ 2. His Rejoicing and Confidence. (2 Corinthians 7:2
2 Corinthians 7:2. With 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul returns to the thought of 2 Corinthians 6:13. Make wide your hearts.. Make room in them for us. The sentences which follow are full of changing emotion,...
GET YOU OUT (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1) 7:1 Do not allow yourselves to become joined in an alien yoke with unbelievers. What partnership can there be between righteousness and lawless...
We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have taken advantage of no one. I am not speaking with any intention of condemnation. I have already told you that you are in our hearts, so that I...
RECEIVE. Make room for. Greek. _choreo._ See John 21:25. Compare 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 6:13. WRONGED. Greek. _adikeo._ See...
Exhortation to set aside all suspicion and to confide in the Apostle's love and zeal for their spiritual well-being 2. _Receive us_ Literally, MAKE ROOM FOR US (-capaces estote nostri," Erasmus and C...
2–4. Return to the appeal for reconciliation, which in turn brings him back to the subject of the news brought by Titus, of which he began to tell in 2 Corinthians 2:12, but from which he almost at on...
ΧΩΡΉΣΑΤΕ ἩΜΑ͂Σ. OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (R.V.); _make room for us_ in your hearts as in Matthew 19:11-12. Neither there nor here does it mean ‘understand rightly’: comp. Mark 2:2; John 2:6;...
_PERFECT HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1-3:_ Since God has given us His great promises we should stay away from everything that contaminates and defiles either our body or our spirit. Pe...
ΧΩΡΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΧΩΡΈΩ (G5562) освобождать место, впускать. "Дайте нам место в своих сердцах" (RWP). _Aor. imper._ призывает к специфическому действию с оттенком срочности, ΉΔΙΚΉΣΑΜΕΝ...
WE HAVE DEFRAUDED NO MAN.— The original word signifies, "to indulge a covetous temper, and make a prey of others by it;" and perhaps intimates, that the false teachers, of whom he had so much reason t...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Appeal for Purity Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 7:1-3. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holines...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Augmentation (2 Corinthians 7:2-9) 2 Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3I do not say this to...
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. RECEIVE US - with enlarged hearts (). WE HAVE WRONGED ... CORRUPTED ... DEFRAUDED NO MAN (cf. ) - the groun...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
7:2 ruined (k-10) Or 'corrupted.'...
_(E) 7:2-16. THE APOSTLE'S JOY IN THE CORINTHIANS' REPENTANCE_ St. Paul goes on to ask them to give him their affection, and renews his assurance of purity of deed and motive. He tells them of the sus...
RECEIVE US] RV 'Open your hearts to us.' WE HAVE WRONGED.. CORRUPTED.. DEFRAUDED NO MAN] St. Paul is referring to charges that had been brought against him. For hints as to these, cp. 2 Corinthians 11...
PARAPHRASE. 'Give us your affection; we have done no man any injury either in influence or in character or in pocket. (3) I am not returning to this subject to blame you again, for whether I live or d...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 V2 Be sincere with us. We have not done wrong things to anyone. We have not made anyone behave wrongly. We have not che...
RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN. — Better, _Make room for us_; _we wronged no man:_ with the same change of tense in the verbs that follow. There is an almost infinite pathos in that entreaty, utte...
CHAPTER 19 REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. 2 Corinthians 7:2 (R.V) IN this fine passage St. Paul completes, as far as it lay upon his side to do so, his reconciliation with the Corinthians. It concludes the f...
χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς κ. τ. λ.: _make room for us, sc._, in your hearts, _i.e._, let there be no στενοχωρία, (2 Corinthians 6:12); _we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man_. Appare...
to 2 Corinthians 7:1. PARENTHETICAL. HE WARNS THEM AGAINST TOO FAMILIAR ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR HEATHEN NEIGHBOURS. These verses are somewhat perplexing, inasmuch as they seem to interrupt the appeal o...
HE CLAIMS THEIR SYMPATHY AGAIN. He now resumes the appeal which is interrupted at 2 Corinthians 6:13 by the parenthetical warning 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1....
SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was so...
The section culminates in an appeal full of local coloring and suggestion. In a great cry he gave expression to the hunger of his heart when he wrote, "Make room for us" (see margin). He then declared...
VERSE 2 Paul now makes an appeal for them to make room in their hearts for him. They had no reason to be closed against him since he had not led any man into sin, or corrupted any man's morals or fait...
(1) (b) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (1) He returns again from that admonition to his own person, contrasting with them the testimonies both...
_Receive us. [1] This, according to St. John Chrysostom and others, is the same as what he said before, be enlarged or dilated in heart, that is, have a love, and true charity, and a zeal for us, and...
(2) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (3) I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with...
2._Make room for us. _Again he returns from a statement of doctrine to treat of what more especially concerns himself, but simply with this intention — that he may not lose his pains in admonishing th...
The apostle returns to his own relationships with the Corinthians relations formed by the word of his ministry. And now having laid open what this ministry really was, he seeks to prevent the bonds be...
RECEIVE US,.... Into your affections, let us have a place in your hearts, as you have in ours: Gospel ministers ought to be received with love and respect, both into the hearts and houses of the saint...
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. Ver. 2. _Receive us_] Gr. χωρησατε, _Locum date._ Make room for us in your hearts and houses. Set wide open the...
_Receive us_ With that affection which is due to the faithful servants of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by i...
RECEIVE US; into your hearts, as apostles and ministers of Christ; give us your affectionate confidence and ready obedience. There is here an allusion to the exhortation, "Be ye also enlarged," 2 Cori...
PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:...
RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN, WE HAVE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE HAVE DEFRAUDED NO MAN....
Verse 1 is plainly connected with chapter 6. Because the saints of God have these promises, and because they are dearly beloved, they are exhorted to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the fles...
1-4 The promises of God are strong reasons for us to follow after holiness; we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. If we hope in God as our Father, we must seek to be holy...
RECEIVE US; let us have a room in your hearts and esteem, or (more generally) accept us, as you ought to receive and accept the ministers of Christ. As our heart is enlarged towards you, so let your h...
[In this section the apostle appeals to the Corinthians to accept him as a true apostle and minister of Christ, and as persuasive to this end he sets forth his affection for them, his anxiety concerni...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "We have injured no man, corrupted no man, circumvented no man."[372]...
2 Corinthians 7:2 Open G5562 (G5657) us G2248 wronged G91 (G5656) one G3762 corrupted G5351 (G5656) one...
‘Make room in your hearts for us. We wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man. I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together a...
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF TITUS AND PAUL'S FULL RECONCILIATION WITH THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH (2 CORINTHIANS 7:1) Having searchingly examined their credentials by portraying to them the essence of the new...
HAVING CONFIRMED HIS OWN CREDENTIALS AND HIS OWN WAY OF LIVING HE PLEADS FOR A THEM TO TURN FROM ALL THAT MIGHT HINDER THEM AND FOR THEIR EQUAL FULL AND EXCLUSIVE RESPONSE TO GOD AND TO CHRIST (2 CORI...
2 Corinthians 7:2. OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (_Gr. ‘_ Make room for us,' in your hearts), (see on 2 Corinthians 6:11-13); WE WRONGED NO MAN (when we were with you), WE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE...
OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (χωρησατε ημας). Old verb (from χωρος, place), to leave a space, to make a space for, and transitive here as in Matthew 19:11. He wishes no further στενοχωρια, tightness of he...
CONTENTS: Paul opens his heart to the Corinthians concerning purpose of his former letter. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: The true servant of God cannot but be grieved that he must rebuke...
2 Corinthians 7:1. _Having therefore these promises._ Our good archbishop Langton is blamed by many critics for separating this verse from the preceding chapter. The great and precious promises of the...
MAKE ROOM. It is not possible for the Corinthians and Paul to be friends as long as they listen to the slander of the false teachers against him! but THEY must act to make room in their hearts for Pau...
_Receive us; we have wronged no man._ THE APOSTLE’S REQUEST I. The ground on which he urged it--viz., that he deserved it. 1. It was a simple matter of justice. “We have wronged no man,” etc. The ap...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 7:2 Paul resumes the exhortation from 2 Corinthians 6:11. The Corinthians are to side with Paul and reject the false teachers (see...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares his love, sincerity, and his confidence in the Corinthians. II. He declares (ver. 6) his joy at their repentance and amendment. III. He states (ver...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 7:1. THEREFORE.—This verse a branch broken from 2 Corinthians 6:16. This word is like the jagged fibres which tell of the violence, and point back to the parent stem. HA...
EXPOSITION Conclusion of his appeal (2 Corinthians 7:1). The apostle's feelings towards them (2 Corinthians 7:2). Explanation of the objects of his last letter, and expression of his joy at the good r...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to II Corinthians, chapter seven. The first verse of chapter seven immediately refers us back to chapter six. And so as we look at this, we realize that chapter seven m...
1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:3;...
Receive [χ ω ρ η σ α τ ε]. From cwrov place or space. Primarily, to leave a space, make room for. See on containing, John 2:6; John 8:37. The meaning here is make room for us. Rev., open your hearts t...
Observe here, 1. The duty which St. Paul exhorts the Corinthians to, namely, to receive him, their apostle, into their kind affections into the bosom of their love, RECEIVE US; that is, into your best...