Someone will say. This is what his opponents were saying. Tradition makes Paul small, bald, and with a big nose. He did not make a strong impression in person. The false teachers used this fact to try to discredit him as an apostle. Because Paul did not speak with eloquence (1 Corinthians 2:1-5 and notes), they said he did not have the Holy Spirit.
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:10. _FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY_, ARE _WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL_] He boasts of high powers, and that he can do great things. See on 2 Corinthians 10:1. _BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE_ IS...
FOR HIS LETTERS - The letters which he has sent to the church when absent. Reference is had here probably to the First Epistle to the Corinthians. They might also have seen some of Paul’s other epistl...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
WEIGHTY. Greek. _barus._ See Acts 20:29. POWERFUL. Greek. _ischuros._ Compare App-172. PRESENCE. Greek. _parousia._ See Matthew 24:3. WEAK. As 1 Corinthians 1:27....
_his bodily presence is weak_ The bodily weakness of the Apostle seems clearly indicated by many passages in Scripture. We may perhaps gather from Acts 14:12 (though this is doubtful) that he was of l...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
ΦΗΣΊΝ (אDFGKLP, d) rather than φασίν (B, Latt. Syrr.). 10. ΦΗΣΊΝ. See critical note. It is more probable that the singular was changed to the plural, because this sneer was uttered by more than one pe...
_PAUL REASONED WITH THE CORINTHIANS 2 CORINTHIANS 10:7-11:_ Paul's critics were saying that you could just see that they belonged to Christ. He wanted it understood that he belonged to Christ just as...
ΌΤΙ (G3754) эквивалент границ цитаты, вводит прямую речь, ΦΗΣΊΝ _praes. ind. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΦΗΜΊ (G5346) говорить; то есть "кое-кто говорит". Возможно, Павел цитирует слова конкретного челове...
HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, &C.— Chrysostome, Nicephorus, and Lucian, relate of St. Paul, that his stature was low, his body crooked, and his head bald; which seem to be the infirmities here referred...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Sanctioned (2 Corinthians 10:7-11) 7 Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ'S, let him remind himself that as he is Christ'S, so ar...
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. LETTERS - therefore there had been already more letters (plural) of Paul received...
5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinthi...
PARAPHRASE. 'You are too much influenced by appearances. My opponents say that I do not act as an Apostle of Christ, do they? Be sure that I am just as devoted a servant of Christ as any who assert th...
_His_ LETTERS]. They had at this date received at least two from St. Paul, (1) that mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:9, and (2) our First Epistle. _His_ BODILY PRESENCE _is_ WEAK] i.e. his action is feebl...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL. — Allusive references to what had been said of him at Corinth have already appeared frequently. Here, for the first time, we have the very words qu...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος ε...
ὅτι αἱ ἐπιστολαὶ μὲν, φασίν κ. τ. λ.: _for “his letters” they say “are weighty and powerful but,”_ etc. The reading is doubtful (see crit. note); if we follow the rec. text φησίν = “one says” or “he s...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak a...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
VERSE 10 Some falsely accused him of being powerful in his writing, but weak when present....
For [his] letters, say (g) they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible. (g) He notes out those who were the cause of these words....
Who in presence indeed am lowly. [1] Literally, humble, (see Luke i. ver. 48.) that is, of a mean aspect, as to exterior appearances, and my speech contemptible, without the ornaments of human eloquen...
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
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...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL,.... These words contain the reason why he did not choose to say any more of his authority as an apostle to punish offenders, that he might give no...
For _his_ letters, say they, _are_ weighty and powerful; but _his_ bodily presence _is_ weak, and _his_ speech contemptible. Ver. 10. _Weighty and powerful_] As often as I read Paul's Epistles, _Non...
_For though I should boast somewhat more_ Than I do, or they can do; _of our_ apostolical _authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification_ To bring sinners to repentance and faith in Christ,...
SAY THEY; his opposers....
FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL, BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK AND HIS SPEECH CONTEMPTIBLE....
Paul's authority is powerful:...
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved...
There are some amongst you that tell you, that indeed (when absent) I write severely, and with authority; but when I am there with you, neither my behaviour, nor my speech, speaks any such authority....
For, His letters, they say [a general expression, equivalent to "it is said"], _are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account_. [Now even if I boast most freely...
2 Corinthians 10:10 For G3754 letters G1992 G3303 say G5346 (G5748) weighty G926 and G2532 powerful G2478
‘For his letters, they say, are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.' Using letters to exert his authority would indeed only serve to justify the words o...
2 Corinthians 10:10. FOR, HIS LETTERS, THEY SAY, ARE WEIGHTY AND STRONG, BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, AND HIS SPEECH OF NO ACCOUNT. That the weakness here ascribed to his “bodily presence” refers...
THEY SAY (φασιν). Reading of B old Latin Vulgate, but Westcott and Hort prefer φησιν (says one, the leader). This charge Paul quotes directly.WEIGHTY AND STRONG (βαρεια κα ισχυρα). These adjectiv...
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own inf...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 Paul’s Appeal to the Rebellious Minority in Corinth. In the third major section of his letter, Paul directly appeals to those who are still rejecting his gospe...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:9 ABSENT... PRESENT. See note on v. 1. ⇐...
_For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful._ My detractors, the false apostles, say that my letters are hard and bitter, severe and threatening, but my appearance is mean, contemptible, and...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him o...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:3;...
They say [φ α σ ι ν]. The correct reading is fhsi says he. The Revisers retain they say, but read fhsi he says in their text. The reference is to some well - known opponent. Compare one, any one in ch...
His bodily presence is weak — His stature, says St. Chrysostom, was low, his body crooked, and his head bald....