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2 Corinthians 12:18

I begged Titus to go. Evidently the attack has all been against Paul, and the Corinthians continued to trust Titus, and also the unnamed brother. Would you say? "Certainly you would not accuse Titus of taking advantage of you and draining the treasury!!! Do not he and I? Paul points to their good opinion of Titus and reminds them that Titus was only carrying out Paul's orders. They both work together! This, then, makes it impossible to believe that Paul was trying to trick them in some way.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 18. _I DESIRED TITUS_] I never sent any to you but _Titus_ and _another brother_; 2 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 8:18. And did _Titus make a gain of you_? Did he get any thing from you, eithe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I DESIRED TITUS - To go and complete the collection which you had commenced; see 2 Corinthians 8:6. AND WITH HIM I SENT A BROTHER - see note on 2 Corinthians 8:18. Did Titus make a gain

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apos...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corin...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have been...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WITH, &c. Greek. _sunopostello._ App-174. Only here. A. the. See 2 Corinthians 8:18. SPIRIT. App-101. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ for mind. The internal purpose, in contrast with the external...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Continuation of the Defence 11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I desired Titus_ See ch. 2 Corinthians 8:6. This has also been thought to be the Epistolary aorist, and to have a present signification, as though the present letter had been sent by Titus, but the r...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    14–18. He changes from irony to affectionate earnestness, telling them that he must continue the ἀδικία of working for nothing, and explaining why this must be so. It is still quite evident that he is...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    17, 18. By a series of rapid questions (comp. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16; 2 Corinthians 11:22) he shows how baseless the insinuation is. In his eager refutation of the slander he breaks the construction, a...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΑΡΕΚΆΛΕΣΑ ΤΊΤΟΝ. _I_ EXHORTED _Titus, and I sent with him_ THE (see on 2 Corinthians 2:16) _brother_. This cannot refer to the mission of Titus alluded to in 2 Corinthians 2:13;...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ PAUL'S CONCERN FOR CORINTH 2 CORINTHIANS 12:14-21:_ Paul planned a third visit to Corinth. Even then he did not want to be a burden to them. He said, "What I really want is you, and not what you hav...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΑΡΕΚΆΛΕΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) просить, молить, побуждать, ΣΥΝΑΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΑΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G4882) посылать кого-л. вместе с другим, посылать вместе, ΜΉΤΙ (G3385) воп...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I DESIRED TITUS,— "To go to you....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Intended Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 12:14-21. Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but y...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18) 11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? I DESIRED TITUS - namely, to go unto you. Not the mi...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I DESIRED (RV 'exhorted') TITUS] This visit of Titus must have been made at an earlier period than that referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:13 and 2 Corinthians 7:6 and that intimated in 2 Corinthians

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not your possessions but your very selves that I want; for you are my sp...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I DESIRED TITUS, AND WITH HIM I SENT A BROTHER. — Better, _the brother._ The Greek has the article, and he refers definitely to the first of the two unnamed brethren alluded to in 2 Corinthians 8:18....

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corinthians 12:...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    παρεκάλεσα Τίτον κ. τ. λ.: _I exhorted Titus_ (see on 2 Corinthians 8:6), _and I sent the brother with him_. This was the mission from which Titus' return is recorded above (2 Corinthians 7:6), We do...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    THAT HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE AT CORINTH WAS DISINTERESTED ON HIS PART....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU” 2 Corinthians 12:11 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he diverged at...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSES 17-18. Since he had taken no money personally, they apparently accused him of using Titus and the others to take money for a false collection. Paul wants to know if Titus received wages of them...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    I caught you by guile. He answers an objection or suspicion of his adversaries, as if he took no presents himself, but employed others to do it for him: he appeals to them, if Titus did not serve them...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I DESIRED TITUS, AND WITH HIM I SENT A BROTHER,.... The apostle proceeds to mention one or two persons that he had sent unto them, and desires to know whether they could charge them with any such prac...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I desired Titus, and with _him_ I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? _walked we_ not in the same steps? Ver. 18. _In the same spirit_] Who worketh with hi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Be it so_, &c. But some may object; though _I did not burden you_ Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet _being crafty, I caught you with guile_ I did secretly by my messengers what I wou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I DESIRED TITUS, AND WITH HIM I SENT A BROTHER. DID TITUS MAKE A GAIN OF YOU? WALKED WE NOT IN THE SAME SPIRIT? WALKED WE NOT IN THE SAME STEPS?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "2 CORINTHIANS 12:17...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? [Now let us look at the facts and see where I...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 12:18 urged G3870 (G5656) Titus G5103 and G2532 sent G4882 (G5656) brother G80 Did G3387

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?' It was he who encouraged Titus to come...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE ASSURES THEM OF HIS CARE FOR THEM (2 CORINTHIANS 12:14). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This suggests t...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 12:17. DID I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU BY ANY ONE OF THEM WHOM I HAVE SENT UNTO YOU? 2 Corinthians 12:18. I EXHORTED (or charged) TITUS, AND I SENT THE BROTHER WITH HIM (probably one of the...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THE BROTHER (τον αδελφον). Probably the brother of Titus (cf. 2 Corinthians 8:18).DID TITUS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU? (μητ επλεονεκτησεν υμας Τιτοσ?). That puts the issue squarely.BY THE SAME SPIRIT...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:16 CRAFTY... DECEIT... TAKE ADVANTAGE. Paul rejects the idea that he used the collection to take money from the Corinthians. There is no evidence for such a char...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:21; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 2 Corinthians 2:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I desired Titus — To go to you....

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