Verse 13 Paul did not measure himself by men. Rather, he measured himself by the area God had given him to work in. His sphere of preaching was the area where Christ had not been named (Romans 15:20), which included Corinth when he started the work there.
2 CORINTHIANS 10:12-13 ouv sunia/sin) h`mei/j de, {B} The absence of ouv sunia/sin) h`mei/j de, in several witnesses of the Western text (D* G itd, g, ar Ambrosiaster Vigilius Sedulius Scotus) is dou...
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:13. _THINGS WITHOUT_ OUR _MEASURE_] There is a great deal of difficulty in this and the three following verses, and there is a great diversity among the MSS.; and _which_ is th...
BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE - Tyndale renders this:” But we will not rejoice above measure.” There is great obscurity in the language here, arising from its brevity. But the ge...
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)...
NOT. Greek. _ouchi_, App-105. OF. with reference to. Greek. _eis._ App-104. THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE. Literally the unmeasured (Greek. _ametros,_ only here and 2 Corinthians 10:15) things. RULE. G...
_of things without our measure_ Literally, UNTO THE MEASURELESS THINGS, i.e. -beyond the measure which God has meted out to us," -beyond the region of our own work, which was ever, save in the case of...
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...
ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔῈ ΟΥ̓Κ ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἌΜΕΤΡΑ ΚΑΥΧΗΣΌΜΕΘΑ. _But we_ (in emphatic contrast to αὐτοί) _will not_ GLORY BEYOND MEASURE. For this use of εἰς comp. εἰς τρίς, εἰς τὰ μάλιστα. He does not say’ we _do_ not glo...
12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out. Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely, because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...
_ SEEKING THE GLORY OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12-14:_ Those that criticized Paul were inclined to think highly of themselves and praise themselves. He said, "But when they measure themselves by one anot...
ΆΜΕΤΡΟΣ (G280) неумеренный, несоразмерный. Фраза может значить: "мы не будем неумеренно хвастаться" (Barrett; IBG, 71). ΚΑΥΧΗΣΌΜΕΘΑ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) (_см._ 2 Corinthians 1...
WITHOUT OUR MEASURE,— The original word Αμετρα, here and in 2 Corinthians 10:15 does not signify _immense,_ or _immoderate,_ but something which had not been measured out and allotted to him; somethin...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEA...
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...
10:13 measure, (c-8) There is a double meaning in the words here. They signify 'out of measure, immoderately,' but allude also here to the false teachers going where God had not sent them. see ver.15....
(_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...
WITHOUT _our_ MEASURE] outside our province. He will only boast of work done by himself, and that included preaching the gospel in Corinth. THE MEASURE OF THE RULE, etc.] RV 'The measure of the provin...
PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
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...
BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE. — The words imply, of course, that his opponents were doing this. He refers in it to the _concordat_ established between himself and Barnabas, on t...
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...
ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐχὶ κ. τ. λ.: _but we will not glory beyond our measure_ (εἰς τὰ representing the direction and extent of his boasting), _but according to the measure of the rule which_ (οὗ for ὅν by attrac...
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...
But we will not boast of things without [our] (l) measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. (l) Of those things which God h...
The apostle here reprehends the vain boasting of false teachers. I will not, like them, say, that I have carried the light of the gospel to the utmost limits of the globe, that I have converted millio...
(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...
13._But we will not boast beyond our measure _He now contrasts his own moderation with the folly of the false Apostles, (780) and, at the same time, he shows what is the true measure of glorying — whe...
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...
BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE,.... Or things unmeasurable; meaning not doctrines, the knowledge of which they had not attained to, and which were not to be measured by reason or...
But we will not boast of things without _our_ measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. Ver. 13. _But we will not boast, &c...
_But we will not_, like them, _boast of things without measure_ Assume the credit of other men's labours, (2 Corinthians 10:15,) nor meddle with those converted by them; _but according to the measure...
WITHOUT OUR MEASURE; beyond the measure of our actual labors, as was done by the opponents of Paul, who intruded themselves upon the field of other men's labors, and took to themselves the credit of w...
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, BUT ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE RULE WHICH GOD HATH DISTRIBUTED TO US, A MEASURE TO REACH EVEN UNTO YOU....
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...
RULE: Or, line...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...
OLBGrk; The apostle may be understood as speaking both of spiritual gifts, and also of his travels to the several places whither he had gone preaching the gospel. He reflecteth still upon the false te...
But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you. [Paul got no false idea of his own stature by m...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI ), which is the perfection of faith, goes beyond catechetical instruction, in accordance with the magnitude of the Lord's teaching and the rule of the Church.[3...
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‘But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province (boundary, area within boundaries) which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.' Paul on the...
2 Corinthians 10:13. BUT (unlike all these) WE WILL NOT GLORY BEYOND _OUR_ MEASURE, BUT (only) ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE RULE WHICH GOD APPORTIONED TO US AS A MEASURE, TO REACH EVEN TO YOU: ‘We...
BEYOND OUR MEASURE (εις τα αμετρα). "Into the unmeasured things," "the illimitable." Old word, here only in N.T.OF THE PROVINCE (του κανονος). Old word (καννα like Hebrew) a reed, a measuring rod....
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...
AS FOR US. "We will not go beyond the limits which God has set." He has not seized authority over the Corinthians, like a church-Boss! God himself appointed Paul apostle to the Gentiles....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:13 In contrast to his opponents, Paul does NOT BOAST BEYOND LIMITS (that is, beyond the sphere of his God-given apostolic authority). His apostolic authority in...
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...
_But we will not boast of things without our measure._ This is the second charge brought by S. Paul against the false Apostles. They boast so largely that one would think they have preached the Gospel...
_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 12:11; 1 Peter 4:10; 2 Corinthians 10:14; 2 Corinthians 10:15;...
Of things without measure [ε ι ς τ α α μ ε τ ρ α]. Of things is wrong; the translators failing to see that the article forms, with the following word, an adverbial phrase. Rev., correctly, glory beyon...
But we will not, like them, boastingly extend ourselves beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God hath allotted us — To me, in particular, as the apostle of the gentil...