Even Satan! A Jewish legend said that Satan once took the form of an angel of light and joined other angels in singing praises to God; and that Eve in the garden saw him as he "bent over the wall." The point is that evil can counterfeit good.
Verse 14. _AND NO MARVEL_] καιουθαυμαστον. And no wonder; it need not surprise you what the _disciples_ do, when you consider the character of the _master_. _SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANG...
AND NO MARVEL - And it is not wonderful, 2 Corinthians 11:15. Since Satan himself is capable of appearing to be an angel of light, it is not to be deemed strange that those who are in his service also...
2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_ 2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7) 3. His Boastings of Labors a...
A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render se...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
NO. Greek. no, as 2 Corinthians 11:4. LIGHT. Greek. _phos._ App-130. See 2 Corinthians 2:11.Revelation 2:24....
_And no marvel No wondre_, Wiclif, where we may remark that the older English expression has held its ground against the French equivalent. _Satan himself is transformed_ Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 2:11. N...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
ΘΑΥ͂ΜΑ (אBDFGPR) rather than θαυμαστόν (D2D3KLM). 14. ΚΑῚ ΟΥ̓ ΘΑΥ͂ΜΑ. See critical note. Comp. ΠΛ. πολλοῦ γὰρ αὐτοὺς οὐχ ἑώρακά πω χρόνου. ΧΡ. καὶ θαῦμά γʼ οὐδέν· οὐδʼ ἐγὼ γὰρ ὁ βλέπων (Aristoph. _Pl...
_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
ΘΑΎΜΑ (G2295) чудо, нечто удивительное. ΜΕΤΑΣΧΗΜΑΤΊΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. от_ ΜΕΤΑΣΧΗΜΑΤΊΖΩ (G3345) преобразовывать (_см._ 2 Corinthians 11:13). ΆΓΓΕΛΟΝ ΦΩΤΌΣ (G32; G5457) _асс. sing._ (в) ангела с
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15) 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. IS TRANSFORMED - rather, 'transforms himself' (cf. ); habitually: the first occasion was in tempting Eve. So in tempting Jesu...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
SATAN HIMSELF.. INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT] tempting men by making evil seem good, 'making the worse appear the better reason.' _(C) 11:16-12:18. THE EVIDENCES OF HIS APOSTLESHIP IN SUFFERING AND SERVICE...
PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
_(B) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_ St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
FOR SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. — The present tense of the original excludes the thought that reference is made to any special incident (such as the appearance of Satan among...
CHAPTER 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in nothing inf...
καὶ οὐ θαῦμα κ. τ. λ.: _and no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light_. Light is the symbol of God (1 John 1:5; 1 Timothy 6:16) and His messengers (Matthew 28:3;...
HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS 2 Corinthians 11:10 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts with himself...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences w...
VERSE 14 Satan often presents himself to man as one seeking man's good, as he did with Eve in the garden of Eden. It should come as no surprise that his ministers would likewise portray themselves as...
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of (k) light. (k) By light is meant the heavenly glory, of which the angels are partakers....
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
14._And no marvel _It is an argument from the greater to the less. “If Satan, who is the basest of all beings, nay, the head and chief of all wicked persons, transforms himself, what will his minister...
In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
AND NO MARVEL,.... This need not be wondered at, nor is it any new or strange thing; nor should it be thought to be incredible that there are such persons in being: FOR SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED I...
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Ver. 14. _Satan himself is, &c._] Satan, saith one, doth not always appear in one and the same fashion, but hath as many differ...
_For such are false apostles_ Whatever they may pretend to the contrary, being destitute of that divine mission which all the true apostles have; _deceitful workers_ Pretending to great disinterestedn...
AN ANGEL OF LIGHT; tries to seem like one....
AND NO MARVEL; FOR SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT....
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:...
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
It is not at all to be wondered, that the emissaries of Satan dissemble, and pretend themselves to be what they are not, for even Satan himself, who is the prince of darkness, in order to the deceivin...
And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI Further, let those who say that philosophy took its rise from the devil know this, that the Scripture says that "the devil is transformed into an angel of light...
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‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing therefor...
PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 11:1). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Paul's mini...
2 Corinthians 11:14. AND NO MARVEL; FOR SATAN FASHIONETH HIMSELF INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. His own element is darkness (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6), and all his power over men lies in his power to keep them...
AN ANGEL OF LIGHT (αγγελον φωτος). The prince of darkness puts on the garb of light and sets the fashion for his followers in the masquerade to deceive the saints. "Like master like man." Cf. 2 Cori...
CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor of Damascus. CONCLUS...
2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:9 Paul refused to accept money from the Corinthians because he had to distinguish his ministry from that of the false apostles. They labored in Corinth out of gr...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4) to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out that they had bestowed no...
_For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light._ He says _of light_, because good angels, being blessed, are wont, when they show themselves to men, to appear full of light and glory. Second...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:12. OCCASION.—General drift clear, particular application difficult, from our ignorance of facts. Hard to reconcile some of the presumed cavils and accusations; which...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING. EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He is not afraid of comparisons ...
Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven. Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they so often did,...
2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 2:11; Galatians 1:8; Genesis 3:1;...
Satan. See on Luke 10:18. The rabbinical writings represent the devil rather as the enemy of man than of God or of good. They use none of the New - Testament names for the Evil One except Satan, and c...
Satan himself is transformed — Uses to transform himself; to put on the fairest appearances....