16–18. He has just said how his faith sustains him. Without using the word, he now expresses his steadfast hope. The balanced antitheses, verse by verse, give this passage something of the rhythm of a hymn.
Verse 16. _FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT_] ουκ εκκα κουμεν. See note on 2 Corinthians 4:1. Here we have the same various reading; εγκακουμεν, _we do no wickedness_; and it is supported by BDEFG, and s...
FOR WHICH CAUSE - With such an object in view, and sustained by such elevated purposes and desires. The sense is, that the purpose of trying to save as many as possible would make toil easy, privation...
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)...
That is the reason why we do not grow weary. But if indeed our outward frame is wasting away, our inward self is renewed day by day, for the light affliction which at the moment we must endure produce...
FOR WHICH CAUSE. Therefore. THOUGH. even if. App-118. OUTWARD (Greek. _exo)_ man (Greek. anthropos, App-123.) This expression Occurs only here. It is one of the rearms of the old nature. Compare Roma...
2 Corinthians 4:16 to 2 Corinthians 5:10 The Preachers of the Gospel are sustained by the hope of a Future Life 16. _For which cause we faint not_ The Apostle now returns to the topic he has already...
_AN ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18:_ Paul would never give up. He did not just become exhausted and wearied and faint. There was resistance to his message, but he would not faint. He si...
ΔΙΌ (G1352) посему, ΈΓΚΑΚΟΎΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΚΑΚΈΩ (G1573) уступать злу (_см._ 2 Corinthians 4:1). άλλ' ΕΊ (G235; G1487) даже хотя. С _ind._ вводит условие, которое считается истинным, έξ
FOR ALL THINGS ARE FOR YOUR SAKES,— "For I do and suffer all things for your sakes, that the exuberant favour of God may abound by the thanksgiving of a greater number to the glory of God." That is, ...
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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Misgivings (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. 17For this slight m...
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. WE FAINT NOT - notwithstanding sufferings. Resuming . OUTWARD MAN - the flesh and all t...
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...
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...
THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, etc.] These afflictions may weaken the body, but through them the spirit is strengthened. Experience shows us the truth of this in many cases; e.g. bodily weakness often...
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...
FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT. — Ho returns, after a long digression, to the assertion with which 2 Corinthians 4 had opened, but in repeating the words he enters once again on the same line of thought...
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...
HE IS SUSTAINED BY A GLORIOUS HOPE....
διὸ οὐκ ἐγκακοῦμεν κ. τ. λ.: _wherefore, sc._, because of the thought in 2 Corinthians 4:14, _we faint not_ (repeated from 2 Corinthians 4:1); _but even though our outward man is decaying, yet our inw...
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...
A PROPER VIEW OF SUFFERING Since he believed death would be followed by a resurrection, and his suffering brought God glory, Paul did not give up hope and quit fighting. While the physical body was gr...
For which cause we faint not; (10) but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is (o) renewed day by day. (10) He adds as it were a triumphant song, that he is outwardly afflicted, but in...
(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...
16._For which cause we faint not _(491) He now, as having carried his point, rises to a higher confidence than before. “There is no cause,” says he, _“ _why we should lose heart, or sink down under th...
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...
FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT,.... Since our afflictions are overruled for the good of others, and the glory of God, we are not discouraged by them; our spirits do not sink under the weight of them; we...
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward _man_ is renewed day by day. Ver. 16. _Yet the inward man_] Peter Martyr dying, said, "My body is weak, my mind is well...
_For which cause_ Because of which abounding grace that supports us; _we faint not_ Under any of our present pressures; _but though our outward man_ The body; _perish_ Be worn out and brought to dust...
FOR WHICH CAUSE; because of the glorious hopes of the gospel and the glorious results of our labors. WE FAINT NOT; under these labors and trials. OUR OUTWARD MAN; our dying body. THE INWARD MAN; th...
FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY....
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...
Because of this double advantage which accrueth from our sufferings, viz. the furthering of the good of your souls, and the promoting the glory of God from the thanksgivings of many, though we suffer...
Wherefore [because each death is followed by a co-ordinate resurrection] _we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day_. [The sacrifice of the carnal...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V does he here speak? Of that which we are now living? Then how is it, that in the words which follow he exhorts us not to the things which are seen and are temporal,...
2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore G1352 not G3756 heart G1573 (G5719) Even G235 though G1499 our G2257 outward G18
‘For this reason we faint not. But though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceeding...
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 4:16. WHEREFORE on all the foregoing grounds WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN IS DECAYING (see on 2 Corinthians 4:10-12), YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY under a growing...
WHEREFORE WE FAINT NOT (διο ουκ εγκακουμεν). Repeats from verse 2 Corinthians 4:1.OUR OUTWARD MAN (ο εξω ημων ανθρωπος),OUR INWARD MAN (ο εσω ημων). In Romans 7:22; Colossians 3:9;...
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; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the wor...
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...
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...
FOR THIS REASON. 2 Corinthians 4:15. OUR PHYSICAL BEING. Paul's service to Christ cost him something in physical strength (2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:23-28). Yet our spiri
For WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY_._ Dual manhood I. There is a duality in Christian manhood. The apostle was not only a great...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 OUTER SELF... INNER SELF describes the contrast between Paul’s life of suffering in this present evil age (his outer self) and the moral and spiritual transfor...
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...
_But though our outward man perish._ Though the body be corrupted through persecutions, afflictions, hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness, scourgings, and diseases, yet the spirit within is renewed, and ad...
_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 15:58; 1 Peter 3:4; 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 4:1;...
Outward man - inward man. The material and spiritual natures. Perish [δ ι α φ θ ε ι ρ ε τ α ι]. Rev., much better, is decaying. Perish implies destruction : the idea is that of progressive decay. Is...
Therefore — Because of this grace, we faint not. The outward man — The body. The inward man — The soul....
The original word for FAINTING signifies to shrink back, as cowards in war, or to sink down as porter under the pressure of some heavy burden: FOR THIS CAUSE WE FAINT NOT. For what cause? namely, this...