Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 7:5
Our flesh — That is, we ourselves. Had no rest from without — From the heathens. Were fightings — Furious and cruel oppositions. From within — From our brethren. Were fears — Lest they should be seduced.
Our flesh — That is, we ourselves. Had no rest from without — From the heathens. Were fightings — Furious and cruel oppositions. From within — From our brethren. Were fears — Lest they should be seduced.
Verse 2 Corinthians 7:5. _WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA_] St. Paul, having left Ephesus, came to Troas, where he stopped some time; afterwards he came to Macedonia, whence he wrote this epistle, _...
FOR WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA - For the reasons which induced Paul to go into Macedonia; see the notes on 2 Corinthians 1:16; compare the notes, 2 Corinthians 2:12. OUR FLESH HAD NO REST - We w...
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
AGONISING ANXIETY HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY ABUNDANT JOY. The cause of his anxiety had been in part the condition of affairs in the church at Corinth, but even more the measures he had taken to deal with...
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...
For when we arrived in Macedonia we could find no rest for our body, but we were sore pressed on every side. There were wars without and fears within. But he who comforts the lowly comforted us--I mea...
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. MACEDONIA. This was after leaving Troas (2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 2:13), where he was disappointed at not finding Titus. NO. Greek. _oudeis._ REST. Greek. _anes...
_For, when we were come into Macedonia_ See Acts 20:1 and ch. 2 Corinthians 2:13. _our flesh had no rest_ The word translated _rest_means rather _ease, remission of care_. The phrase is precisely the...
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...
5–16. Statement of the happy tidings brought from Corinth by Titus. Comp. the similar mission of Timothy to Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 3:1-8). For the silence about Timothy here see on 2 Corinthian...
ἜΣΧΗΚΕΝ (אCDLP) rather than ἔσχεν (BFCK). 5. ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ἘΛΘΌΝΤΩΝ ἩΜΩ͂Ν ΕἸΣ Μ. _For_ INDEED _when we were come into Macedonia_; probably at Philippi. Getting away from Troas and reaching Macedonia did no...
_GOD COMFORTED PAUL BY SENDING TITUS 2 CORINTHIANS 7:5-8:_ When Paul and his companions came to Macedonia they were faced with all kinds of problems. They had no opportunity to rest. They were trouble...
ΚΑΊ ΓΆΡ ибо даже, ΈΛΘΌΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, идти. _Gen. abs. aor._ указывает на предшествующее действие: "когда он пришел" ΈΣΧΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G21...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Frankness Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 7:4-13 a. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with jo...
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...
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Greek, 'For also' (For 'even'). This verse is thus conne...
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...
_(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...
'When I came to Macedonia': see Intro....
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...
FOR, WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA... — His feeling has led him back to the narrative from which he had digressed in 2 Corinthians 2:13. He had come from Troas full of anxiety and agitation. He arr...
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...
HE WAS COMFORTED TO LEARN FROM TITUS THAT HIS REBUKE HAD BEEN PROFITABLE. _Cf._ throughout 1 Thessalonians 3:1-8, a passage strikingly like this in its human sympathy and kindliness....
καὶ γὰρ ἐλθόντων κ. τ. λ.: _for even when we were come into Macedonia_ (he has explained in 2 Corinthians 2:12 his anxiety when he was at Troas, but it remained with him even when he had crossed into...
THE JOYOUS EFFECT OF GODLY SORROW 2 Corinthians 7:5 After dispatching his first Epistle, with the strong words of 2 Corinthians 5:1 and elsewhere, Paul's tender heart had been rent with anxiety lest...
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 5 He was so concerned for them that he could not rest until he heard from them. This verse continues the thoughts of 2 Corinthians 2:12-13. Paul faced outward trials while inwardly worrying abou...
Our flesh, that is, I myself, had no rest, because of the concern I was in about you, after I had written my last letter. (Witham) --- Combats without, fears within. Openly persecuted by the pagans, b...
(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...
5._For when we had come into Macedonia _The heaviness of his grief tends to show, how efficacious the consolation was. “I was pressed on every side,” says he, “by afflictions both internal and externa...
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...
FOR WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA,.... Whither Paul went in quest of Titus, not finding him at Troas, 2 Corinthians 2:12 and where he met with him, and had the agreeable account from him of the sta...
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without _were_ fightings, within _were_ fears. Ver. 5. _Our flesh had no rest_] Our spirit had no unr...
_For when we were come into Macedonia_ From Ephesus, not finding Titus; _our flesh_ That is, we ourselves; _had no rest_ Fearing he had not been well received by you; _but we were troubled on every si...
FIGHTINGS; great opposition to the gospel and to him for preaching it. FEARS; lest his first epistle should not have produced the desired effect. The best ministers may be called to endure great affl...
Paul's comfort because they had accepted his rebuke:...
FOR WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA, OUR FLESH HAD NO REST, BUT WE WERE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE; WITHOUT WERE FIGHTINGS, WITHIN WERE FEARS....
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...
5-11 There were fightings without, or continual contentions with, and opposition from Jews and Gentiles; and there were fears within, and great concern for such as had embraced the Christian faith. B...
Of this motion of the apostle's INTO MACEDONIA, what he did and suffered there, we have a short account, ACTS 20:1. He saith his FLESH HAD NO REST, he met with incessant storms of persecution; and was...
For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. [The apostle here resumes the thread of his narrative...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Accordingly, when he is going to assign afflictions to the flesh as its especial liability-according to the statement he had already made-he says, "When we...
2 Corinthians 7:5 For G1063 indeed G2532 we G2257 came G2064 (G5631) to G1519 Macedonia G3109 our G2257 bod
‘For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, co...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:5. FOR EVEN WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA, OUR FLESH HAD NO RELIEF (see on chap. 2 Corinthians 2:12-13), BUT _WE WERE _ TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE; WITHOUT WERE FIGHTINGS (from enemies)...
WHEN WE HAD COME (ελθοντων ημων). Genitive absolute with second aorist active participle of ερχομα. Paul now returns to the incident mentioned in 2 Corinthians 2:12 before the long digression on th...
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...
EVEN AFTER. Note that Paul picks up the thought he dropped in 2 Corinthians 2:13. When Titus did not meet Paul at Troas, he may have been afraid that Corinth had rejected his letter and that some spec...
_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 7:5 Paul goes back to the topic from 2 Corinthians 2:13....
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 Corinthians 15:31; 1 Corinthians 16:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 1:16;...
Rest [α ν ε σ ι ν]. Rev., relief. See on liberty, Acts 24:23....
Observe here, When the apostle was come from Ephesus to Macedonia, how great. conflict he had, both from without and within: From without, by persecution and opposition both from the Jews and Gentiles...