Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
But He who raised Him up from the dead will raise[14]
Tertullian De Spectaculis
What fellowship has light with darkness, life with death?[26]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
then he has clearly predicted the resurrection of the flesh.[544]
2 CORINTHIANS 4:14 to.n ku,rion VIhsou/n {B} A majority of the Committee was impressed by the diversity of the witnesses supporting the presence of ku,rion (a C D G K L P Y 88 614 _Byz Lect_ itd, g s...
Verse 14. _KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD_, c.] And though we shall at last seal this truth with our blood, we fear not, being persuaded that as the body of Christ was raised from the dead b...
KNOWING - Being fully confident; having the most entire assurance. It was the assured hope of the resurrection which sustained them in all their trials. This expression denotes the full and unwavering...
5. THE CHARACTER OF THE TRUE MINISTRY. CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Gospel of the Glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:1)_ 2. The Treasure in Earthen Vessels; Weakness and Power. (2 Corinthians 4:7) 3. Resurrec...
It is true that the splendid character of this ministry is for the present obscured by the earthly and physical conditions under which it is discharged. Paul is conscious that this disability is speci...
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)...
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the power which surpasses all things may be seen to be of God and not of us. We are sore pressed at every point, but not hemmed in. We are at our...
KNOWING. Greek. _oida_ App-132. RAISED UP. Greek. _egeiro._ App-178. LORD. App-98. BY. through. Greek. _dia,_ but the texts read "with", Greek. _sun._ WITH. Greek. _sun._ App-104....
_knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus_ Here we have the source of the Apostle's faith and confidence. He knew that the Resurrection of Christ was an accomplished fact (see notes on 1 Corinth...
ΤῸΝ ΚΎΡΙΟΝ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Ν (אCDFGKLP, Lat. Vet.) rather than τὸν Ἰησοῦν (B, Vulg. Arm.); and ΣῪΝ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂ (אBCDFGP, Latt. Copt. Arm. Aeth.) rather than διὰ Ἰησοῦ (א3D3KL, Syrr. Goth.). 14. ΕἸΔΌΤΕΣ. BECAUSE WE K...
_OVERCOMING MANY TROUBLES 2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-15:_ Bad things come to good people. Paul mentions four bad things that had come his way and four ways that those things could be worse. He said, "We are tr...
SIDOXEQPERF. _act. part. от_ ΟΊΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ Гл. выражает знание, которое разум получает непосредственно или интуитивно (Donald W.Burdick, "ΟΙΔΑ and ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ in the Pau...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Mortality (2 Corinthians 4:7-15) 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. 8We are afflicted in...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's View Of His Ministry Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 4:7-18. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from...
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. KNOWING - by faith (2 Corinthians 5:1). SHALL RAISE UP US ALSO - at the resurrection...
10 The widespread fiction that the life of a Christian must be one of settled calm and contentment, prosperous and in every way advantageous in this life, is proven utterly fallacious by the experienc...
BY JESUS] RV 'with Jesus.'...
1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God. 1, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim it bo...
PARAPHRASE. '(13) Our faith is like that of the Psalmist, who spoke out of the depths of his inward conviction, and we speak what we verily believe. (14) For we are confident that God who raised Jesus...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 God in his *mercy has given us this work to do. As a result, we do not lose hope. V2 We do not do things in secret a...
KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS... — From his present experience of the triumph of life over death he passes to the future victory of which that triumph was the earnest. It is clear tha...
CHAPTER 12 THE VICTORY OF FAITH. 2 Corinthians 4:7 (R.V) IN the opening verses of this chapter Paul has magnified his office, and his equipment for it. He has risen to a great height, poetic and spi...
Despite the contrast between _death_ in us and _life_ in you (2 Corinthians 4:12), we trust that we too shall share in that Risen Life of Christ. εἰδότες ὅτι κ. τ. λ.: _knowing that He who raised up t...
HIS BODILY WEAKNESS DOES NOT ANNUL THE EFFECTS OF HIS MINISTRY....
THE INWARD LIFE TRIUMPHANT OVER AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 4:7 Few men have been more conscious of their weakness than was the Apostle. The earthen vessel had become very cracked and scratched, but the...
Continuing about the ministry, the apostle said, "We faint not," "we have renounced the hidden things of shame," "we preach... Christ Jesus as Lord." Hearing, some perish because "the god of this worl...
GOD'S PROCLAIMERS WILL OVERCOME The treasure would be the gospel. That treasure is carried to the world in earthly vessels, that is, our bodies. Because the body is weak, the greatness of the message...
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the d...
Having received this ministry of righteousness and of the Spirit, the foundation of which was Christ glorified beheld with open face, he not only used great boldness of speech, but his zeal was not ab...
KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS,.... Besides having the same spirit of faith, mentioned in the preceding verse as a support under tribulation, the apostle proceeds in this, and some fol...
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present _us_ with you. Ver. 14. _Shall present us with you_] Shall bring us from the jaws of death to the joy...
_We having the same spirit_ Which you have, because we have the same faith: or, we have the same spirit of faith which animated the saints of old, David in particular, when he said, _I believed, and t...
PRESENT US WITH YOU; spotless and faultless before the throne of his glory, with exceeding and eternal joy....
KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS SHALL RAISE UP US ALSO BY JESUS, AND SHALL PRESENT US WITH YOU....
How the apostle rose above every handicap:...
Chapter s 4 and 5 now show some of the precious, practical results of this ministry, seen in those entrusted with it; for it is such a ministry itself that works powerfully in them to enable them to c...
13-18 The grace of faith is an effectual remedy against fainting in times of trouble. They knew that Christ was raised, and that his resurrection was an earnest and assurance of theirs. The hope of t...
Knowing that God the Father, who raised up the Lord Jesus from the dead, as the first-fruits of them that sleep, shall likewise, by the virtue of his resurrection, and by a power flowing from him, as...
knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you. [The daily preservation of his weak body was to the apostle an earnest, as it were, of t...
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‘Knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.' For their certainty finally lies in their faith in the resurrection. It is that that m...
CONSIDERATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO COVENANTS (2 CORINTHIANS 4:12) Having been described as earthen vessels, the practical application of this is now made. As earthen vessel...
2 Corinthians 4:14. KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS [1] SHALL RAISE UP US ALSO WITH JESUS, [2] AND SHALL PRESENT US WITH YOU the parent in the faith with his spiritual children (see Eph...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ Stern was the labour of the apostles, but they felt that their work was so all-important, so divi...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the mini...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;--_ We are sometimes ready to faint, but we cast our fainting spirits into the arms of God, and our...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the wor...
CONTENTS: Truth taught, commended by the life. The preaching of the Lordship of Christ. The suffering of true ministers with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: A steadfast adherence t...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Seeing we have this ministry,_ of grace and reconciliation to a guilty world; the ministry of righteousness, not of condemnation; the ministry of life, and not of death; we have li...
WE KNOW. Notice how sure Paul is that God will do as He promised! WILL ALSO RAISE US UP. Christ is the _guarantee_ of this (1 Corinthians 15:20-23)_!_ TOGETHER WITH YOU. The total messianic community....
_Knowing that He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also._ SOUL-INSPIRING FACTS I. That Christ was raised from the dead. “Knowing,” etc. No fact in history is more firmly established....
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. From what was said in the last chapter of the glory and honour belonging to the office of a preacher of the Gospel, S. Paul proceeds to assert that he discharges...
_Shall raise up us also._. _. and shall present us with you._ Shall present us with you in glory. He says out of modesty, "shall present us with you," not "you with us," because the Corinthians were t...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 4:8.—“Pressed for room, and still having room” (Stanley). “Perplexed, but not utterly perplexed” (Beet). Apparent, not real, contradiction to 2 Corinthians 1:8 (same wo...
EXPOSITION The glory of the gospel ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), which sustains the hearts of Christ's ministers among all weaknesses and trials (2 Corinthians 4:7), especially by the faith in things...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), What ministry? Pointing people to Jesus Christ. as we have received mercy, we faint not; But [we] have renounced the hidden things of disho...
1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 11:2;...
A double reason is here assigned why the apostle bare his sufferings with such invincible courage and Christian patience. The first is drawn from the advantage which would redound to the church by his...