Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 12:19
Verse 19 Instead of defending himself before them, Paul was laying out the facts in the sight of God, who is the judge. Paul had done all to teach them, as God knew.
Verse 19 Instead of defending himself before them, Paul was laying out the facts in the sight of God, who is the judge. Paul had done all to teach them, as God knew.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:19 pa,lai {A} The Textus Receptus, following ac Dgr K L P Y 104 326 642 1835 itg Syrp, h copbo goth arm, reads the easier pa,lin. The more difficult reading...
Verse 19. _THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES_] απολογουμεθα; That we make an apology for our conduct; or, that I have sent Titus and that brother to you because I was ashamed or afraid to come myself?...
AGAIN, THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU? - see the note on 2 Corinthians 5:12. The sense is, Do not suppose that this is said from mere anxiety to obtain your favor, or to ingratiate ourselv...
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...
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...
You have been thinking for a long time that it is to you that we have been making our defence. It is before God, in Christ, that we speak. All that we have said, beloved, is for your upbuilding, for I...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
EXCUSE OURSELVES. are making an apology. Greek. _apologeomai_. See Acts 19:33. SPEAK. Greek. _laleo,_ as in 2 Corinthians 12:4. DEARLY BELOVED. Greek. _agapetos._ App-136. EDIFYING. Greek. _oikodome...
2 Corinthians 12:19 to 2 Corinthians 13:10. The Apostle's intentions on his arrival 19. _Again, think you that we excuse ourselves_. Rather, DO YE THINK THAT WE ARE DEFENDING OURSELVES AGAIN? Many MS...
19–21. He is not on his defence before the Corinthians: to God alone is he responsible. But all he says is for the good of the Corinthians, that a thorough reformation may take place before he comes....
ΠΆΛΑΙ (אABFG, Latt.) rather than πάλιν (א3DKLP, g Syrr. Copt. Arm. Goth.), which Rec. adopts: also ΚΑΤΈΝΑΝΤΙ (אABFG) rather than κατενώπιον (DKLP), which Rec. adopts. 19. ΠΆΛΑΙ ΔΟΚΕΙ͂ΤΕ ὍΤΙ ὙΜΙ͂Ν�; Se...
_ 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...
ΠΆΛΑΙ (G3819) давно, в прошлом. Используется с _praes._, который объединяет вместе прошлое и настоящее действие в одной фразе: "вы думали обо всем этом?" (М, 119; RG, 89). ΔΟΚΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. ind. act....
AGAIN, THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE, &C.— He had before given the reason, ch. 2 Corinthians 1:23 for his not coming to them, with the same asseveration as in the present verse. If we trace the thread of St...
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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Weakness in Behavior (2 Corinthians 12:19-21) 19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we ha...
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. AGAIN. So C Delta g [ palin (G3825)]: a correction from 2 Co...
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...
12:19 supposing (b-5) Or 'Ye have of old supposed.'...
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...
AGAIN, THINK YE] RV 'Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves,' i.e. pleading our cause. IN CHRIST] as inspired by Christ's Spirit through living in union with him. FOR YOUR EDIFYING] He...
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...
AGAIN, THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU? — Many of the best MSS. present the reading _palai_ (long ago), instead of _palin_ (again). In this case the sentence is better taken as an assertion...
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:...
HIS GLORYING HAS NOT BEEN BY WAY OF APOLOGY, BUT TO EDIFY THEM UNTO REPENTANCE....
πάλαι f1δοκεῖτε κ. τ. λ.: _ye are thinking this long time_ (_i.e._, since they read 2 Corinthians 11:1 ff.; for πάλαι _cf._ Matthew 11:21; Hebrews 1:1;...
“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...
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...
(7) Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in (n) Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. (7) He concludes that he does not write these thin...
After having answered one of their objections with regard to his disinterestedness, he thus proceeds: I perceive that of old, or for a long time, you have regarded this lengthened discourse merely as...
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...
19._Do you again think. _As those that are conscious to themselves of something wrong are sometimes more anxious than others to clear themselves, it is probable, that this, also, was turned into a gro...
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...
AGAIN, THINK YOU THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES TO YOU?.... The apostle would not have the Corinthians imagine, that by what he had said once and again in this epistle, he meant to excuse himself from comin...
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but _we do_ all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. Ver. 19. _That we excuse ourselves_] And so yield a fault....
_Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves_ That I say all this to insinuate myself into your esteem for any secular ends? _We speak before God in Christ_ As if he had said, I have a higher end in view...
THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU; as if you were set to be our judges, and we needed to clear our character before you. WE SPEAK BEFORE GOD IN CHRIST; in all sincerity, having no concealed purpose t...
AGAIN, THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU? WE SPEAK BEFORE GOD IN CHRIST; BUT WE DO ALL THINGS, DEARLY BELOVED, FOR YOUR EDIFYING....
Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:...
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...
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...
THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU? Some of you may think, that I speak all this in my own defence, and seek only my own credit and reputation amongst you. I do not so. WE SPEAK BEFORE GOD IN...
Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying....
2 Corinthians 12:19 Again G3825 think G1380 (G5719) that G3754 ourselves G626 (G5736) you G5213 speak G298
HIS FINAL WAKE UP CALL (2 CORINTHIANS 12:19) ‘You think all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.' D...
2 Corinthians 12:19. YE THINK ALL THIS TIME [1] THAT WE ARE EXCUSING OURSELVES UNTO YOU. In this ye much mistake me. [1] πάλαι, not πάλιν, as in the received text. IN THE SIGHT OF GOD SPEAK WE IN CH...
YE THINK ALL THIS TIME (παλα δοκειτε). Progressive present indicative, "for a long time ye have been thinking."WE ARE EXCUSING OURSELVES (απολογουμεθα). He is not just apologizing, but is in dead...
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...
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...
PERHAPS YOU THINK. Paul wants to make it plain that he says all this to help the church at Corinth, and not just to clear his own name. He speaks as Christ's servant....
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...
_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;...
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
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...
1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 14:26; 1 Corinthians 9:12;...
Think ye that we again excuse ourselves — That I speak this for my own sake? No. I speak all this for your sakes....
As if the apostle had said, "Think not that for any sinister or by-ends of my own,. excuse myself so often to you, for deferring so long my promised and intended journey among you; for all. do is with...