Tertullian To His Wife Book II
the Gentiles to the exercise of some eminent heavenly virtue, is, by the visible proofs of some marked (divine) regard, a terror to her Gentile husband, so as to make him less ready to annoy her, less active in laying snares for her, less diligent in playing the spy over her. He has felt "mighty works;[50]
Verse 2 Corinthians 12:12. _THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU_] Though I have been reputed as _nothing_, I have given the fullest proof of my _Divine mission_ by various signs, wonders,...
TRULY THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE - Such miracles as the acknowledged apostles worked. Such “signs” or evidences that they were divinely commissioned; see the Mark 16:17 note; Acts 2:22 note; Romans 15:19...
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...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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...
SIGNS. Greek. _semeion._ App-176. AMONG. App-104. WONDERS. Greek. teras. App-176. MIGHTY DEEDS. powers. Greek. _dunamis_. App-176....
_Truly the signs of an apostle_ Rather, of THE Apostle, i.e. of him who is an Apostle. These are of two kinds, (1) inward, consisting in endurance for the Gospel's sake, and (2) outward, in credential...
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...
ΚΑΤΕΙΡΓΆΣΘΗ (אAB3KL) rather than κατηργάσθη (BFG) or κατηργάσθην (D). Comp. 2 Corinthians 7:11. But see WH. App. p. 161. ΣΗΜΕΊΟΙΣ (א1AD 71, 80, d Pesh. Arm. Goth.) rather than σημείοις (D3KLP, Vulg.)...
_SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11-13_ : Paul felt that he had been forced to make a fool of himself. He knew that he was nothing. He also knew that he was not at all inferior to these super-apo...
ΣΗΜΕΊΑ (G4592) знак (DPL, 875-77). ΆΠΟΣΤΌΛΟΥ _gen. от_ ΑΠΌΣΤΟΛΟΣ (G652) апостол; _gen._ принадлежности апостолу или характеризующий апостола, ΚΑΤΕΙΡΓΆΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΩ (G2716) произ...
IN ALL PATIENCE,— This may well be understood to reflect on the haughtiness and plenty, wherein the false apostle lived among them....
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...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ Admission of Foolishness Scripture 2 Corinthians 12:11-13. I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very...
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. TRULY ... There is understood some such clause as, 'yet I have not been commended by...
20 Paul's patient and forbearing behavior among them was in striking contrast to the course of his detractors. They treated the Corinthians like slaves, while Paul served them like a slave. They devou...
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...
SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND MIGHTY DEEDS] miracles in various aspects. That St. Paul claimed to have wrought miracles is evident also from Romans 15:18 : cp. Galatians 3:5....
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...
TRULY THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU. — The passage is remarkable for using the word “signs,” first, in the general sense, as “notes” or “tokens,” and then more specifically for works...
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:...
τὰ μὲν σημεῖα κ. τ. λ.: _truly_ (there is no antithesis to μέν) _the signs of an Apostle_ (τοῦ is generic, “such as might be expected from an Apostle”; _cf._ Mark 16:20) _were wrought_ (note the passi...
THE FOREGOING TESTIMONY TO HIS CLAIMS OUGHT TO HAVE COME FROM THE CORINTHIANS WHO WITNESSED HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS....
“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...
VERSE 12 There had been an apostle among them, but it was Paul. He was supported in his claim by the signs Christ had promised (Mark 16:1-20). These same words were used by Peter about the vents on Pe...
Truly the (l) signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. (l) The arguments by which it may well appear that I am indeed an apostle of Jesus C...
_Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the humility of St. Paul, when forced to speak his own praises. --- The signs and marks of my apostleship....on you, by your conversion, espe...
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...
12._The signs of an Apostle _By the _signs of an Apostle _he means — the seals, that tend to confirm the evidence of his Apostleship, or, at least, for the proofs and evidences of it. “God has confirm...
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...
TRULY THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU,.... Not only the doctrine which he preached, the power that attended it, and the success it met with among them, were clear signs and evident proo...
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. Ver. 12. _In all patience_] A grace to be gloried in; Job is crowned and chronicled for...
_Truly the signs of an apostle_ The signs whereby a person was known to be an apostle, were his performing great and evident miracles openly in the view of the world, especially his healing diseases,...
SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE; such works as proved me to be one....
WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:...
TRULY, THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU IN ALL PATIENCE, IN SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND MIGHTY DEEDS....
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...
I had not only a call to my apostleship, (of which indeed you were no witnesses), but I amongst you evidenced my call by such SIGNS, as were sufficient to declare me to you to be a true apostle. Among...
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works....
2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly G3303 signs G4592 apostle G652 accomplished G2716 (G5681) among G1722 you G5213 with...
‘I am become foolish, you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I behind the very highest ranking apostles, though I am nothing. Truly the signs of an apostle wer...
HE GLORIES IN WONDROUS EXPERIENCES, DREADFUL WEAKNESS AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MIRACLES, IN ALL OF WHICH HE IS A MATCH FOR HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1) Having stressed the differences between hi...
2 Corinthians 12:12. TRULY THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU IN ALL PATIENCE, BY SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND MIGHTY WORKS _(Gr._ ‘powers'). In Hebrews 2:4, these are given as evidences of apo...
OF AN APOSTLE (του αποστολου). "Of the apostle" (definite article). Note the three words here for miracles wrought by Paul (σημεια, signs, τερατα, wonders, δυναμεις, powers or miracles) as in Hebre...
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...
THE THINGS THAT PROVE. "During the time I spent at Corinth when I planted the church there, you saw much evidence that I was an apostle!" Compare 1 Thessalonians 1:5 and note....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity, Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:12 THE SIGNS OF A TRUE APOSTLE... AMONG YOU WITH UTMOST PATIENCE. Refers to the work of the Spirit through Paul’s ministry. This work is seen in the conversion a...
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...
_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 1:5; 1 Corinthians 14:18; 1 Corinthians 9:2; 2 Corinthians 11:4;...
Signs [σ η μ ε ι α]. See on Matthew 24:24. Stanley observes that the passage is remarkable as containing (what is rare in the history of miracles) a direct claim to miraculous powers by the person to...