Mark of ownership. Abraham was circumcised as a mark of God's ownership. For the Christian, the Holy Spirit is God's mark of ownership. See Ephesians 1:13-14; Ephesians 4:30; compare Revelation 7:3; Revelation 9:4; Revelation 14:1; and note on Hebrews 10:29. As the guarantee. The Holy Spirit is a pledge or down-payment which promises that full payment will be made. See 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:14; Romans 8:11.
Verse 22. _WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US_] Not only deeply _impressed_ His _truth_ and _image_ upon our _hearts_; but, by the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit, attested the truth of our extraordinary _un...
WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US - The word used here (from σφραγίζω sphragizō) means to seal up; to close and make fast with a seal, or signet; as, e. g., books, letters, etc. that they may not be read. It...
2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had whe...
But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, returning through Corinth from Macedonia, and taking from...
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
It was with this confidence that I previously planned to visit you, that I might bring you pleasure for the second time, and so go on to Macedonia by way of you, and be sped by you on my way to Judaea...
HATH. Omit. ALSO SEALED US. sealed us also. SEALED. Greek. _sphragizo._ Compare John 3:33. GIVEN. gave, EARNEST. Greek. _arrabon._ Only here, 2 Corinthians 5:5.Ephesians
St Paul's reason for putting off his coming 15. _And in this confidence_ It was the conviction of this community of interest which made St Paul desire to visit Corinth. It was (see 2 Corinthians 1:23...
_Who hath also sealed us_ Here again the Greek has the aorist. We must refer it here to the attestation God gave to his calling and anointing by the manifest signs of His presence with His ministers....
15–24. The rest of this chapter and part of the next are taken up with the Apostle’s defence of himself against a charge of ‘lightness’ (ἐλαφρία), _i.e._ of not caring for the Corinthians or for his e...
19–22. Closely connected with what precedes, as is shown by the γάρ, extending and confirming the argument....
Ὁ ΚΑῚ ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ἩΜΑ͂Σ. The ὁ is omitted in א1Acts 1 KP and some versions. The sealing is not a mere change of metaphor; it continues and extends what has just been stated. Seals have had an enormo...
_A DESIRE TO SPARE THEM 2 CORINTHIANS 1:19-24:_ The promises of Jesus and His commandments left no doubt. Therefore, those that preach Him cannot manifest a fickle spirit in their preaching either. Je...
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. part. subst._) от ΣΦΡΑΓΊΖΩ (G4972) опечатывать. Имущество опечатывалось, чтобы гарантировать не только принадлежность владельцу, но и правильность содержания (BS, 239; MM; TDN...
DISCOURSE: 2002 THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 2 Corinthians 1:21. _Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the e...
WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US, &C.— Who, answerable to various uses of a seal among men, has likewise printed his holy image upon us, and assured us of our interest in the Blood of the Covenant: and he has...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Acrimony (2 Corinthians 1:12-24) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Explanation of His Deferred Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:15-24. And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 and by yo...
_WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US, AND GIVEN THE EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
21 The operation of God's Spirit is here seen under three distinct figures: the anointing, the seal, and the earnest. Prophets and priests and kings were anointed for their office. They were anointed...
SEALED] marked us for His own. GIVEN THE EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT] bestowed the gift of the Spirit as the pledge and sample of all spiritual blessings to come: cp. Romans 8:23; Ephesians 1:14....
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...
PARAPHRASE. 'When you find me now writing from Macedonia before you have had a visit at all, you may think me changeable and capricious. (18) But I assure you solemnly I am not easily turned from my p...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...
WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US. — Better, _who also sealed us._ The thought thus expressed is that the gift of the Spirit, following on baptism or the laying on of hands, is as the seal of the covenant which...
CHAPTER 4 CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES. 2 Corinthians 1:21 (R.V) IT is not easy to show the precise connection between these words and those which immediately precede. Possibly it is emotional, rather than l...
HIS CHANGE OF PLAN WAS NOT DUE TO FICKLENESS. καὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πεποιθήσει ἐβουλόμην κ. τ. λ.: _and in this confidence_ (_sc._, that they would acknowledge his sincerity) _I was minded to come before_ (_sc...
ὁ καὶ σφρ. ἡμᾶς κ. τ. λ.: _who also sealed us_ (_sc._, all Christians), _and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts_. The aorists, σφραγισάμενος … δούς, point to acts completed at a definite...
SINCERE LIKE HIS MASTER 2 Corinthians 1:12 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16. As we pass out of this life, and stand in the revealing dawn of...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...
GOD'S VERIFICATION OF PAUL'S SINCERITY God had established Paul's sincerity by backing him with signs and miracles. Since God was a promise keeper, He would not support one who was dishonest. God had...
Who hath also sealed us, and given the (y) earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (y) An earnest is whatever is given to confirm a promise....
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Pignus spiritus, _Greek: ton arrabona. That by receiving the earnest, says St. John Chrysostom, p. 662, you may be assured to receive the whole._...
This must needs be true, because he is God, who hath confirmed us with you, both us and you in Christ, in the faith, and grace of Christ crucified, who hath anointed us with divine graces, who hath se...
(21) Now he which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; (22) Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (23) Moreover I call God for a reco...
The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...
WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US,.... "Two" things more are here attributed to God; "first", the sealing of his people. The use of seals is various, as to denote property in things, to distinguish one thing fr...
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Ver. 22. _Sealed us_] As the merchant sets his seal upon his goods. _ The earnest of the Spirit_] Whereof God should under...
_Now he which stablisheth us_ Apostles and teachers; _with you_ All true believers; _in_ the faith of _Christ_ Or he who confirms both you and us in the truth; _and hath anointed us_ With the oil of g...
SEALED US; marked as his own. The agent of this sealing is the Holy Spirit, as immediately stated. THE EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS; the Holy Spirit dwelling in our hearts, and giving us a for...
God Himself Paul's witness:...
WHO HATH ALSO SEALED US, AND GIVEN THEE EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS....
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
15-24 The apostle clears himself from the charge of levity and inconstancy, in not coming to Corinth. Good men should be careful to keep the reputation of sincerity and constancy; they should not res...
The use of a seal is for confirmation of the thing to which it is affixed; the effect of it is the making the impression of itself upon the wax: so as sealing us, both in this and other texts, signifi...
who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. ["Every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher," said Jesus (Luke 6:40). Paul has this truth in mind, and his meaning...
Theophilus to Autolycus Book III Wherefore such men have necessarily lost the wisdom of God, and have not found the truth.If you please, then, study these things carefully, that you may have a compen...
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‘Now he who is establishing (‘is confirming') us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God, who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.' And this is confirmed by the fac...
2 Corinthians 1:22. WHO ALSO SEALED US, AND GAVE _US _ THE EARNEST OF THE S pirit (meaning the Spirit as the earnest of future glory) IN OUR HEARTS. There is a noble climax here: ‘Our whole stability...
SEALED US (σφραγισαμενος ημας). From σφραγιζω old verb, common in LXX and papyri for setting a seal to prevent opening (Daniel 6:17), in place of signature (1 Kings 21:18). Papyri examples show a wi...
2 Corinthians 1:22 The Seal of Earnest. I. The first metaphor in the text, the "seal" of the Spirit. A seal is impressed upon a recipient material made soft by warmth, in order to leave there a copy...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...
CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...
_Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God._ ESTABLISHING GRACE I. The Christian needs not only converting but establishing grace. He that hath begun any good work...
_Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts._ SEALING OF THE SPIRIT What are we to understand by the sealing of the Spirit? It is that act of the Holy Spirit by which...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:21 To be ANOINTED is to be set apart and gifted by God. This is symbolized in the OT by the pouring of olive oil as a sign of God’s rich provision. SEAL. A mark o...
SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS He consoles the Corinthians, whom in the First Epistle he had sharply rebuked, and absolves the excommunicated fornicator, who was now penitent....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:12. REJOICING.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically...
Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...
2 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Ephesians 1:13; Ephesians 1:14;...
Sealed [σ φ ρ α γ ι σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. See on John 3:33; Revelation 22:10. Earnest [α ρ ρ α β ω ν α]. Only here, ch. 5 5, and Ephesians 1:14. It means caution - money, deposited by a purchaser in pledge...
Who also hath sealed us — Stamping his image on our hearts, thus marking and sealing us as his own property. And given us the earnest of his Spirit — There is a difference between an earnest and a ple...