It was more! They did more than Paul could expect them to do! First. then. Their Christian giving grew out of the fact that they had already given themselves as living sacrifices to Christ! Compare Romans 12:1-2. If you can reach a man's mind, you can reach his heart, and through it his pocketbook, and when you have reached his pocketbook, you have captured the whole man. You cannot buy that kind of dedication!!!
Verse 2 Corinthians 8:5. _NOT AS WE HOPED_] They far exceeded our expectations, for they consecrated themselves entirely to the work of God; _giving_ themselves and all they possessed _first_ unto th...
AND THIS THEY DID ... - They did not give what we expected only. We knew their poverty, and we expected only a small sum from them. NOT AS WE HOPED - Not according to the utmost of our hopes. We were...
II. THE MINISTRY OF GIVING. CHAPTER S 8-9 1. The Examples and Principles of Giving. CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Grace of God Manifested in the Churches of Macedonia. (2 Corinthians 8:1)_ 2. The Great Examp...
2 CORINTHIANS 8, 9. THE COLLECTION FOR POOR CHRISTIANS AT JERUSALEM. Paul attached the highest importance to this collection, to which he seems to have invited all the Gentile churches to contribute....
Brothers, we want you to know about the grace of God which was given in the Churches of Macedonia. We want you to know that even when they were going through a severe test of their faith when things w...
AN APPEAL FOR GENEROSITY (2 Corinthians 8:1-15)...
NOT. Greek. _ou_. App-105. LORD. App-98. UNTO. to. BY. through. Greek. _dia._ App-104. 2 Corinthians 8:1. WILL. Greek. _thelema_. App-102....
_And this they did_ The words _this they did_are not in the original. They were added by Tyndale in order to explain the meaning of the passage. The construction of the Greek is not clear, but the gen...
ΟΥ̓ ΚΑΘῺΣ ἨΛΠΊΣΑΜΕΝ. _Not_ JUST _as we_ EXPECTED (2 Corinthians 13:6), but far exceeding our expectations. ἈΛΛʼ ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ἜΔΩΚΑΝ ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΝ Τ. Κ. Perhaps ἑαυτούς should keep its emphatic position; _but the...
3–5. The main clause in this long sentence is ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ἜΔΩΚΑΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΚΥΡΊΩΙ: _totam periochae structuram sustinet_ (Bengel). Of this self-sacrifice four things are stated: (1) it was to the extent of the...
_FIRST GAVE THEMSELVES TO THE LORD 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1-6:_ Paul made known to these brethren that he considered both the opportunity to give and their willingness to give to be of the grace of God. Phil...
ΉΛΠΊΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G1679) надеяться, ожидать, ΈΔΩΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. Они не только поделились благодатью и доказали товарищество, они отдали самих себя ...
DISCOURSE: 2032 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR 2 Corinthians 8:1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia; how that in a great trial of affliction the ab...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Privilege of Giving Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 8:1-6. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; 2 how that...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Commitment (2 Corinthians 8:1-7) 8 We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedonia, 2for in a severe test of aff...
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; THEY (WERE) WILLING - rather supply from , 'According to their power ... yea, and beyond their power...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
_(A) 8:1-9. THE EXAMPLE OF MACEDONIA_ 1-5. Paraphrase. 'I wish you to know how liberally and spontaneously the Churches of Macedonia have contributed to the relief of their fellow-disciples in Jerusa...
FIRST GAVE, etc.] the best of all giving. They surrendered themselves (not their money only) to God's will first, and then to the Apostle's guidance....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 V1 Brothers, we want to tell you about the kindness that God showed to the churches in Macedonia. V2 Even when they wer...
NOT AS WE HOPED... — This means, of course, that they had done what was far beyond his hopes; and here the point lies in the fact that they gave, not their money only, but themselves, their time, thou...
CHAPTER 20 THE GRACE OF LIBERALITY. 2 Corinthians 8:1 (R.V) WITH the eighth chapter begins the second of the three great divisions of this Epistle. It is concerned exclusively with the collection wh...
καὶ οὐ καθὼς κ. τ. λ.: _and not_ (merely) _as we hoped, i.e._, beyond what we expected or hoped, _but first_ (not only in order of time, but in order of importance; as we say “first of all”) _they gav...
THE LIBERALITY OF THE MACEDONIAN CHURCHES AN EXAMPLE TO CORINTH....
STIMULATING TO LIBERALITY 2 Corinthians 8:1 Surely the plea for a generous gift of money toward the collection which Paul was making for the poor saints in Jerusalem, could not have been more tenderl...
The apostle now turned to the subject of the collection for the saints at Jerusalem, concerning which he had written in his previous letter 1 Corinthians 16:1). He cites the example of the churches in...
VERSE 5 The reason they gave so freely was that they first gave themselves over totally to God. Then, they gave their service to the apostles as God's servants. The reason their gift exceeded all Paul...
(2) And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. (2) He amplifies the eagerness of the Macedonians in this, that they also desire...
_They gave their ownselves. That is, they resigned themselves and families to the care of Providence for the necessaries of life, begging that the apostle would receive their alms, which exceeded even...
(1) Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; (2) How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abound...
5._And not as _He expected from them an ordinary degree of willingness, such as any Christian should manifest; but they went beyond his expectation, inasmuch as they not only had their worldly substan...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
AND THIS THEY DID NOT AS WE HOPED,.... All this was unexpected by the apostles, who knew their great affliction and deep poverty, and therefore could not have hoped for such a collection from them; or...
And _this they did_, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. Ver. 5. _Not as we hoped_] God is usually better to us than our hopes. _ First gave...
_For to their power_, &c. According to their ability, _yea, and beyond their_ ability; _they were willing of themselves_ Without our soliciting them. This, as Macknight justly observes, is no hyperbol...
NOT AS WE HOPED; they went beyond our hopes. UNTO US; to be directed by us, according to the will of God. A disposition to give one's self to the Lord, and to use what he bestows according to his wil...
AND THIS THEY DID, NOT AS WE HOPED, BUT FIRST GAVE THEIR OWN SELVES TO THE LORD AND UNTO US BY THE WILL OF GOD,...
PAUL'S TACTFUL APPEAL AND RECOMMENDATION. The example of the Macedonian churches:...
Chapter s 8 and 9 deal with the subject of proper care for poor saints on the part of the assembly. The wisdom and delicacy with which the apostle writes is both admirable and beautiful. He avoids abs...
1-6 The grace of God must be owned as the root and fountain of all the good in us, or done by us, at any time. It is great grace and favour from God, if we are made useful to others, and forward to a...
We might have hoped for something from them, though they were in that poor afflicted condition; but what they brought was much beyond what we could hope for, or expect from them. Or else this phrase m...
and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. [The apostle here sets forth the liberality of the Macedonians, and shows that of th...
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‘And this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.' And in doing this they not only fulfilled Paul's hopes but went further. They firs...
A PLEA CONCERNING THE PAYING OF THEIR ‘DEBT' TO THE JERUSALEM CHURCH BY MEANS OF ‘THE COLLECTION' WHICH WAS TO BE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE EXTREME POVERTY OF THE SAINTS IN THAT CHURCH AND WHICH WOULD ITS...
2 Corinthians 8:5. _AND THIS THEY DID, _ NOT AS WE HOPED, BUT far exceeding our expectations, FIRST THEY GAVE THEIR OWN SELVES TO THE LORD (the Lord Jesus), AND TO US (as acting for Him) BY THE WILL O...
WE HAD HOPED (ηλπισαμεν). First aorist active indicative of ελπιζω. "Expected," he means. They went beyond his hopes about them.FIRST THEY GAVE THEIR OWN SELVES (εαυτους εδωκαν πρωτον). First aor...
Although this is rather a practical than a spiritual chapter, I hope that we shall get profit out of it by the teaching of the Spirit of God who inspired Paul to write it. Paul was writing to the chur...
The apostle is writing concerning a certain collection which was being made for the poor saints of Jerusalem. It was from Jerusalem that the gospel had spread into Greece, and, therefore, those who ha...
CONTENTS: Collection for the poor. Exhortation concerning the grace of giving. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: Those who truly love the Lord Jesus Who became poor for our sakes, mak...
2 Corinthians 8:1. _Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God._ Better to say, It is requisite that I should apprise you of the grace that God has conferred on the churches of Macedonia...
_And._ .. first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. THE BEST DONATION Here we see Paul disappointed, though he was never discontented. “This they did, not as we hoped....
_The grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia._ THE GRACE OF LIBERALITY I. True liberality is a Christian grace--as truly a grace as knowledge, diligence, and love. What light this throws...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 8:2 NOT AS WE EXPECTED. God’s grace was shown since the Macedonians gave even though they were poor. GAVE THEMSELVES FIRST TO THE LORD. The Macedonians recommitted...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1 Paul’s Appeal to the Repentant Church Regarding the Collection. In view of 2 Corinthians 7:2, Paul encourages t
CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts the Corinthians to imitate the generosity of the Macedonian Christians in sending alms to the poor at Jerusalem. II. He points (ver. 9) to the exampl...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Observe: 1. 2 Corinthians 8:1 to 2 Corinthians 9:15 is one continuous section, concerned with the _completion_ of the Corinthian contribution to Paul’s great Jerusalem Christian Poor...
EXPOSITION Liberality shown by the Macedonian Churches (2 Corinthians 8:1). He is sending Titus to receive their contribution for the Church of Jerusalem, and he invites them to give according to the...
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit [or we would bring to your remembrance] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their...
1 Chronicles 12:18; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Samuel 1:28;...
As we hoped [κ α θ ω ς η λ π ι σ α μ ε ν]. Better, expected. They took part in this contribution in a manner beyond our expectation. Supply, as A. V., this they did, or, Rev., and this. Their own sel...
THE GRACE OF GIVING 2 Corinthians 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our Lord lifts Christian liberality out of the mire of coercive necessity, into the realm of grace. As introductory to this sermon on giving...
And not as we hoped — That is, beyond all we could hope. They gave themselves to us, by the will of God — In obedience to his will, to be wholly directed by us....
As if the apostle had said,"Verily these Macedonians, in the liberal distribution of their alms to the poor Christians, have exceeded our hopes and expectation." Wherein? First, they gave their own-s...