who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. [Paul regarded affliction as a school wherein one who is comforted of God is thereby instructed and fitted to become a dispenser of comfort unto others. He blesses God for such lofty and blessed instruction.]
Verse 2 Corinthians 1:4. _WHO COMFORTETH US_] Who shows himself to be the God of tender mercy, by condescending to notice us, who have never deserved any good at his hand; and also the God of all con...
WHO COMFORTETH US - Paul here doubtless refers primarily to himself and his fellow apostles as having been filled with comfort in their trials; to the support which the promises of God gave; to the in...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRUE MINISTRY AS MANIFESTED IN THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE APOSTLE. Chapter s 1-7 1. The Introduction CHAPTER 1:1-7 _ 1. The Salutation. (2 Corinthians 1:1)_ 2. The...
SALUTATION AND INTRODUCTION. 2 Corinthians 1:1 f. Timothy, whose approaching visit to Corinth had been announced in 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 16:11, is now again in Paul's company, and
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through God's will, and Timothy, the brother you all know, send this letter to the Church of God which is at Corinth, together with all God's dedicated people who are...
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
COMFORTETH. Greek. _parokaleo._ App-134. Occurs eighteen times in this epistle. IN. upon. Greek. _epi._ App-104. TRIBULATION. Greek _thilpsis._ See Acts 7:10. THAT WE MAY BE. unto (Greek. _eis_. Ap...
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...
_tribulation] Tribulatio_, Vulgate. The word thus translated is rendered _trouble_in the next clause, and in the Vulgate by _pressura_, and is derived from a verb signifying to _squeeze, press_. The E...
ἘΠῚ ΠΆΣΗΙ ΤΗ͂Ι ΘΛΊΨΕΙ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. _In all our_ AFFLICTION. S. Paul repeats θλίψις (4, 8, 2 Corinthians 2:4) and θλίβω (2 Corinthians 1:6) as he repeats παράκλησις and παρακαλεῖν and the repetition should b...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, утешать (_см._ Romans 12:1). Part, в роли _subst._, "тот, кто ободряет нас и стоит рядом, чтобы утешить". _Praes._ указывает на текущую дея...
DISCOURSE: 1998 THE TRIALS AND CONSOLATIONS OF MINISTERS USEFUL TO THEIR PEOPLE 2 Corinthians 1:3. _Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all...
WHO COMFORTETH US— It is certain that the mention of these experiences must have had a powerful tendency to conciliate the regard of the Corinthians to St. Paul; and such an introduction to his epistl...
Butler's Comments SECTION 1 Affliction (2 Corinthians 1:1-11) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the s...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Comfort in Affliction Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us...
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. US - idiomatic for me (). THAT...
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...
1:4 encourages (a-2) _ Parakaleo_ , as Matthew 2:18 ; Matthew 5:4 ; Acts 20:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:7 . I do not say 'c...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fount of all blessing and comfort, (4) for the comfort and courage He gives us in our trials, whereby we are enabled to com...
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...
WHO COMFORTETH US. — For the writer, the name “God of all comfort” was the outcome of a living personal experience. He had felt that ever-continuing comfort flowing into his soul, and he knew that it...
CHAPTER 1 SUFFERING AND CONSOLATION. 2 Corinthians 1:1 (R.V) THE greeting with which St. Paul introduces his Epistles is much alike in them all, but it never becomes a mere formality, and ought not...
ὁ f1παρακαλῶν ἡμᾶς κ. τ. λ.: _who comforteth us in all our affliction_ (the def. art. indicating trials actually existing). The verb παρακαλεῖν has three shades of meaning, (_a_) _to beseech_, eightee...
SHARING COMFORT IN AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 1:1 This was a circular letter, including in its scope all the scattered communities in the district. _Grace_ was the usual salutation of the West, _Peace_...
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...
THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT Paul went on to thank God and honor him as the source of mercy and comfort. The singer of Israel sang of God in Psalms 86:15. "But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and...
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, (3) that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (3) The Lord comforts us to thi...
Wherewith we also are exhorted by God. The Latin interpreter sometimes translates the same Greek word by exhorted, sometimes by comforted: so the sense may be, with which we are comforted by God. (Wit...
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: (2) Grace be to you and peace fro...
4._That we may be able to comfort _There can be no doubt, that, as he had a little before cleared his afflictions from reproach and unfavorable reports, so now he instructs the Corinthians, that his h...
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;...
WHO COMFORTETH US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION,.... The apostle in this verse gives a reason of the former thanksgiving, and at the same time confirms the above character of God, as "the God of all comfort...
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. Ver. 4. _By the comfort wherewith_]...
_Blessed be God_, &c. A solemn and beautiful introduction, highly suitable to the apostolical spirit; _even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Who is his _only-begotten_ Son, both as to his divine a...
The afflictions and consolations of faithful ministers are designed to prepare them for giving instruction and comfort to the afflicted....
WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION, THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO COMFORT THEM WHICH ARE IN ANY TROUBLE, BY THE COMFORT WHEREWITH WE OURSELVES ARE COMFORTED OF GOD....
Thanksgiving and comfort:...
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....
1-11 We are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The Lord is able to give peace to the troubled conscience, and to calm...
WHO COMFORTETH US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION; US, who are the ministers of the gospel, (as it may appear by what followeth), for the apostle saith, that God doth it, that ministers might, from the comfort...
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GOD BOTH AFFLICTS AND COMFORTS ALL WHO ARE HIS FOR THEIR SALVATION (2 CORINTHIANS 1:3). The verses that follow lay the foundation of what he will say throughout the letter. At first sight they might a...
‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any aff...
IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION (επ παση τη θλιψε ημων). Θλιψις is from θλιβω, to press, old and common word, as tribulation is from Latin _tribulum_ (roller). See on Matthew 13:21 and 1 Thessalonians 1:6. Th...
COMFORTETH Encourages; and so also where "comfort," etc, occurs in following verses....
2 Corinthians 1:4 Affliction, a School of Comfort. I. Sometimes we look with pleasure on those who have never been afflicted. We look with a smile of interest upon the smooth brow and open countenanc...
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...
HE HELPS US. We are not orphans!!! God is our Father!!! SO THAT WE. Christian love is treating others as God has treated us in Christ. If we have learned from the help which God gives us, we will be a...
_Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort._ WHY WE SHOULD BLESS GOD What good can we do to God in blessing of Him? He is blessed, th...
_Who comforteth us._ .. that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble_._ DIVINE COMFORT IN TRIBULATION 1. There is no tribulation either for the kind or degree of it, but God can and...
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 1:3 Paul offers praise to God as he introduces the main themes to follow. ⇐...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4 US... OUR. Most of the plural first-person pronouns in 2 Corinthians 1:1 (“we,” “us,” “our”) seem to refer to Paul h
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 1:3.—John calls the Son a “Comforter” (1 John 2:1). Christ calls the Spirit a “Comforter” (John 14:16, “another” also implying that He Himself had been such to the disci...
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,...
1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:6;...
In all our tribulation - in any trouble [ε π ι π α σ η τ η θ λ ι ψ ε ι η μ ω ν - ε ν π α σ η θ λ ι ψ ε ι]. Note the nice use of the article : all our tribulation, collectively; any or every trouble, s...
THE GOD WHO IS ENOUGH 2 Corinthians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God, in every need, is the God who is enough. His resources are sufficient for all, deficient for none. His supply is abundant. When Abrah...
Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction — He that has experienced one kind of affliction is able to comfort others in that affliction. He...