McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 1:13
For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read [literally, read aloud] or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:
For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read [literally, read aloud] or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:
Verse 2 Corinthians 1:13. _THAN WHAT YE READ_] Viz. In the first epistle which he had sent them. _OR ACKNOWLEDGE_] To be the truth of God; and which he hoped they would continue to acknowledge, and n...
FOR WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS ... - There has been much variety in the interpretation of this passage; and much difficulty felt in determining what it means. The sense seems to me to be this. Paul ha...
2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had whe...
2 Corinthians 1:12 to 2 Corinthians 2:17. PAUL SEEKS TO REMOVE MISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE CORINTHIANS. 2 Corinthians 1:12. He has no hesitation in thus asking for their prayer
The only boast we make is this--and it is backed by the witness of our conscience--that in the world we have behaved ourselves with the holiness and the purity of God, not with a wisdom dominated by h...
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
NONE. not (Greek. _ou)_. OTHER. Greek. _allos_ App-124. ACKNOWLEDGE. Greek. _epiginosko_. App-132. EVEN. The texts omit....
The mutual interdependence of St Paul and the Corinthian Church 3. _Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Two feelings rise at once in the Apostle's mind. The first is an overwhel...
_For we write none other things unto yon_ i.e. for we are not writing to you about anything with which you have not had the opportunity of being fully acquainted. _than what you read or acknowledge_ I...
ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ἌΛΛΑ ΓΡΆΦΟΜΕΝ. ‘Do not say, Ah, but your letters are not sincere, _for_ I write nothing that is inconsistent with what you read in my other letters, or with your experience of my life and cond...
_ PAUL'S CHANGE OF PLANS 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12-18:_ Paul could rejoice because he had a clear conscience. He lived a simple, honest life with godly sincerity. His desire in all things was to be controlle...
ΆΛΛΑ (G243) другие вещи, ΓΡΆΦΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. _Praes._ относится ко всем письмам Павла (Hering). άλλ' Ή (G235; G2228) кроме (BD, 233). ΆΝΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act....
DISCOURSE: 2000 THE CHURCHMAN’S CONFESSION, OR AN APPEAL TO THE LITURGY 2 Corinthians 1:13. _We write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge_. AS the testimony of one’s own cons...
WHAT YE READ OR ACKNOWLEDGE;— _What ye know and acknowledge._ Doddridge. _Than what, when you read, you acknowledge._ Wale's Critic, notes. "I take the sense to be," says Dr. Heylin, "that he meant no...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Acrimony (2 Corinthians 1:12-24) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's defense of His Conduct and Writing Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:12-14. For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not...
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS (IN THIS LETTER) ... THAN WHAT YE READ (in my...
1 Timothy is associated with Paul in this introduction, as Sosthenes is in the former epistle, yet it is evident that Paul himself wrote both epistles, for he continually refers to himself in them, an...
1:13 know (e-14) Or 'own' (personally). Some would render this 'but what ye read.' The word has this sense also; but it refers here, I think, to what they knew and had learnt of him by his being among...
NONE OTHER THINGS] St. Paul seems to have been suspected of writing to individual members of the Church that he was not so satisfied with their conduct and attitude as he professed to be in his public...
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...
FOR WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS... — The Greek presents a play on the two words “read” (_ana-ginoskein_) and “acknowledge,” or “know fully” (_epiginoskein_)_,_ which it is impossible to reproduce in En...
CHAPTER 2 FAITH BORN OF DESPAIR. 2 Corinthians 1:8 (R.V) PAUL seems to have felt that the thanksgiving with which he opens this letter to the Corinthians was so peculiar as to require explanation. I...
οὐ γὰρ ἄλλα κ. τ. λ.: _for we write none other things unto you than what ye read_ (ἀναγινώσκειν always means “to read” in St. Paul's Epp. and throughout the N.T.) _or even acknowledge; i.e._, there is...
THEY MUST ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SINCERITY OF PURPOSE. He claims that he has always been frank and open in his dealings with the Corinthian Christians: _cf._ 1 Thessalonians 2:3. ἡ γὰρ καύχησις κ. τ. λ.: _fo...
SINCERE LIKE HIS MASTER 2 Corinthians 1:12 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16. As we pass out of this life, and stand in the revealing dawn of...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...
For we write (k) none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the (l) end; (k) He says that he writes plainly and simply: for he that writes...
_What you have read, in my former letter, or letters, and known by my preaching: this he says, to clear himself from the accusation of his adversaries, that his words, preaching, and promises were not...
(12) For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, an...
13._For we write no other things _Here he indirectly reproves the false apostles, who recommended themselves by immoderate boastings, while they had little or no ground for it; and at the same time he...
The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...
FOR WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS TO YOU,.... The things we write unto you concerning our conduct; and behaviour, are no other THAN WHAT YOU READ; not in our letters to you, but in our lives and convers...
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; Ver. 13. _Than what ye read, &c._] Or, than what you can both recognize an...
_For_, &c. I am more imboldened to look for this, because I am conscious of my integrity; seeing _our rejoicing is this_ Even in the deepest adversity, a rejoicing which no external calamities can imp...
THAN WHAT YE READ; the opponents of Paul in Corinth had probably accused him of insincerity in his former epistle. He assures them that he has no hidden end, but that what they read is precisely what...
FOR WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS UNTO YOU THAN WHAT YE READ OR ACKNOWLEDGE, AND I TRUST YE SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE EVEN TO THE END;...
PAUL'S VINDICATION OF HIS CONDUCT AND LIFE. The sincerity of his purpose:...
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
12-14 Though, as a sinner, the apostle could only rejoice and glory in Christ Jesus, yet, as a believer, he might rejoice and glory in being really what he professed. Conscience witnesses concerning...
I do not tell you stories; the things which I write, and which you read, either in my Epistles to you, or to other churches of Christ, are what you know, must own and acknowledge, to be truth; and I h...
2 Corinthians 1:13 For G1063 not G3756 writing G1125 (G5719) things G243 you G5213 than G235 G2228 what...
‘For we write no other things to you than what you read (anaginosko) or even understand (epignosko), and I hope you will understand (epiginosko) to the end (or ‘completely'), as also you understood (e...
2 Corinthians 1:13. FOR WE WRITE NONE OTHER THINGS UNTO YOU, THAN WHAT YE READ (in this Letter), OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE (without the need of our writing it), AND I HOPE YE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE UNTO THE END;...
THAN WHAT YE READ (αλλ' η α αναγινωσκετε). Note comparative conjunction η (than) after αλλ' and that after αλλα (other things, same word in reality), "other than." Read in Greek (αναγινωσκω) is kno...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleshi...
CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...
ONLY WHAT YOU CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND. The false teacher must have said that Paul spoke one thing and did another (2 Corinthians 1:17). Paul does not want any misunderstanding, so he explains in the n...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:1 Paul’s Defense of His Ministry as an Apostle. Paul’s ministry reflects the work of the Holy Spirit. ⇐
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12 Paul offers a detailed defense of why he had changed his mind more than once about returning to Corinth. The process included: (1) an initial plan to visit Mac...
SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS He consoles the Corinthians, whom in the First Epistle he had sharply rebuked, and absolves the excommunicated fornicator, who was now penitent....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:12. REJOICING.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically...
Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...
2 Corinthians 13:6; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Philemon 1:6...
Read - acknowledge [α ν α γ ι ν ω σ κ ε τ ε - ε π ι γ ι ν ω σ κ ε τ ε]. The word - play cannot be reproduced in English....
The apostle having asserted his own sincerity and upright conversation in the former verse, he doth in this verse make his appeal to the consciences of the Corinthians for his justification. It is. go...