Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
2 Corinthians 4:9
cast down, but not destroyed i.e. struck or thrown down, as in warfare or wrestling, but not yet deprived of life, and therefore not unable to renew the conflict.
cast down, but not destroyed i.e. struck or thrown down, as in warfare or wrestling, but not yet deprived of life, and therefore not unable to renew the conflict.
Verse 2 Corinthians 4:9. _PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN_] Διωκομενοι, αλλ' ουκ εγκαταλειπομενοι. The διωκομενοι, _pursued_, is peculiar to the δρομος, or _race_, when one being foremost others pursue,...
PERSECUTED - Often persecuted, persecuted in all places. The Book of Acts shows how true this was. BUT NOT FORSAKEN - Not deserted; nor left by God Though persecuted by people, yet they experi enced t...
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...
FORSAKEN. abandoned. Greek. _enkataleipo._ See Acts 2:27. CAST DOWN. Greek. _kataballo._ Only here, Hebrews 6:1.Revelation 12:10. DESTROYED. Greek. _apollumi,_ as in...
ΔΙΩΚΌΜΕΝΟΙ. Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:12; Galatians 6:12; Matthew 5:10. ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΙΠΌΜΕΝΟΙ. We might have expected ‘but not captured’ rather than ‘but not forsaken’; ‘left behind’ (R.V. margin) ‘by his...
8–11. Five illustrations of the contrast between the treasure and the earthen vessel....
_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...
ΔΙΩΚΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) охотиться, гнать как дикого зверя, преследовать, ΈΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΙΠΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΊΠΩ (G1459) дезертировать, бросать кого-л. в нужде....
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...
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; NOT FORSAKEN - by God and man. Jesus was forsaken by both: so much do His sufferings exceed those of His people (Matthew 27:46). Literal...
6 The covenant of the letter is the law of Moses which was engraven in stone, to symbolize its unyielding sternness. There is no reference to the letter of Scripture. It is the law that kills, just as...
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...
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...
PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN. — Better, perhaps, as expressing in both terms of the clause the condition of a soldier on the field of battle, _pursued, yet not abandoned._ The next clause is again dis...
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...
HIS BODILY WEAKNESS DOES NOT ANNUL THE EFFECTS OF HIS MINISTRY....
ἐν παντὶ θλιβόμενοι κ. τ. λ.: with a sudden change of metaphor, the Apostle now thinks of himself as a soldier engaged with an apparently stronger foe, and at every moment on the point of defeat; and...
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...
PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN,.... Pursued from place to place, and followed with menaces, curses, and reproaches; laid hold on, proscribed, imprisoned, and threatened with the severest tortures, and d...
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Ver. 9. _Persecuted, but not forsaken_] The Church may be shaken, not shivered; persecuted, not conquered. (_Concuti, non excuti.) Roma cla...
_We are troubled_ The four articles in this verse respect inward, the four in the next outward afflictions. In each clause the former part shows the earthen vessels; the latter, the excellence of the...
PERSECUTED; by men. NOT FORSAKEN; of God. NOT DESTROYED; able to rise again and renew the conflict....
Paul's bodily weakness:...
PERSECUTED; BUT NOT FORSAKEN; CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED;...
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...
8-12 The apostles were great sufferers, yet they met with wonderful support. Believers may be forsaken of their friends, as well as persecuted by enemies; but their God will never leave them nor fors...
PERSECUTED; violently pursued and prosecuted by such as are the adversaries of the gospel, and enemies to our Lord Jesus, because of our profession of him, and preaching his gospel; BUT yet NOT FORSAK...
pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed [The apostle again changes his figure, and describes the Christian minister as a warrior defending a divine treasure. His enemies press upon...
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‘We are pressed on every side, yet not pressed in; perplexed, yet not to despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that...
2 Corinthians 4:8-9. WE ARE PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE, etc. and who would expect from such instruments those marvellous transformations of character which our ministry effects, were it not that “it is God...
FORSAKEN (εγκαταλειπομενο). Double compound of old verb εγ-κατα-λειπω, to leave behind, to leave in the lurch.SMITTEN DOWN (καταβαλλομενο). As if overtaken.DESTROYED (απολλυμενο). Perishing as...
2 Corinthians 4:8 The Broken Life. The mystery of evil has many aspects. There is one which is contained in that sad word, waste. How much that was born with each one of us must pass unused and undev...
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...
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...
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...
MANY ENEMIES? Yes, but God is still our friend! BADLY HURT? Yes, but not killed!...
_We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed._ TRIALS IN THE CAUSE OF CHRIST I. The trials encountered in the cause of Christ are sometimes very great. “We are troubled on every side.” The man...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Paul explains why he does not become discouraged in his ministry, despite his many afflictions (2 Corinthians 4:1,...
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...
_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...
2 Corinthians 7:6; Hebrews 13:5; Isaiah 43:2; Isaiah 62:4; Job 22:29;...
Persecuted - forsaken [δ ι ω κ ο μ ε ν ο ι - ε γ κ α τ α λ ε ι π ο μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., for persecuted, pursued, the primary meaning of the verb, thus giving vividness to the figure. Forsaken, lit., left...