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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...
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Verse 2 Corinthians 10:12. _WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES_, c.] As if he
had said: I dare neither associate with, nor compare myself to, those
who are full of self-commendation. Some think this to be an...
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FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER - We admit that we are
not bold enough for that. They had accused him of a lack of boldness
and energy when present with them, 2Co 10:1, 2 Corinthians 10:1...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
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DARE. Same as "be bold", 2 Corinthians 10:2.
MAKE... OF THE NUMBER. Greek. _enkrino,_ to judge or reckon among.
Only here. App-122.
COMPARE. Greek. _sonkrino._ App-122.
SOME. Greek. _tines._ App-12...
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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...
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_For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves_
i.e. ironically, _we dare not venture to number or compare
ourselves_with certain persons who have of late been claiming great
auth...
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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...
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12. DFG 109, dfg omit ΟΥ̓ ΣΥΝΙΑ͂ΣΙΝ together with
ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔΈ in 2 Corinthians 10:13.
12. ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ΤΟΛΜΩ͂ΜΕΝ ἘΝΚΡΙ͂ΝΑΙ Ἢ
ΣΥΝΚΡΙ͂ΝΑΙ ἙΑΥΤΟΎΣ. _For we_ ARE NOT BOLD (2
Corinthians 10:2) TO PAIR _or compare...
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_ 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...
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BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES,— Dr. Whitby would
render it _measuring themselves by one another;_ as if they compared
themselves with their false apostles, and grew proud in the degree...
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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...
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_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_
A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority
Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your
face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not w...
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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...
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10:12 intelligent. (b-28) 'Wise' is not the sense here, at least it
seems to give the sense of 'not being wise in doing so,' which is not
the force of the Greek expression. The force is 'do not perce...
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(_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...
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WE DARE NOT] RV 'we are not bold': cp. 2 Corinthians 11:2. His
confidence was not based on comparison with his opponents. NOT WISE]
RV 'without understanding.' Such a method of self-commendation is
us...
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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...
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WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER. — The last five words give
the meaning of one Greek verb (_enkrînai =_ to insert), the sound of
which seems immediately to suggest the cognate verb (_synkrîna...
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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...
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οὐ γὰρ τολμῶμεν κ. τ. λ.: _for we do not venture_
(an ironical refusal to put himself on a level with his adversaries,
whose shallow pretensions he thus quietly exposes) _to number or
compare ourselve...
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DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS
MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
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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...
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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...
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VERSE 12 Paul did not see himself as an equal to his opponents in
their ability to exaggerate their own power and authority. Apparently
they had accused him of commending himself (2 Corinthians 3:1; 2...
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(5) For we (h) dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring
themselves by (i) themselves, and (k) comparing themselves among
themse...
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The following verses to the end of the chapter, are equally obscure,
both in the Greek and Latin text. --- We dare not rank or compare
ourselves, &c. He seems to write this ironically, by way of mocki...
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(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...
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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...
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12._For we dare not. _He says this by way of _irony, _for afterwards
he does not merely compare himself boldly with them, but, deriding
their vanity, he leaves them far behind him. Now by this _irony...
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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...
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FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER,.... Some understand this
as spoken ironically, as if the apostle jeeringly should say, he would
not pretend to join, or put himself upon a level, who was...
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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wi...
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_Let such a one_, whoever he be, _think this_ Reckon upon this as a
certain fact; _that such as we are in word by letters_ However weighty
and powerful they may be; _when we are absent, such_ The same...
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Men who think highly of themselves, and boast of their talents,
excellence, and usefulness-who compare themselves not with the law of
God, but with their own defective ideas of the characters of their...
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FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER, OR COMPARE OURSELVES
WITH SOME THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES; BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES BY
THEMSELVES AND COMPARING THEMSELVES AMONG THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WI...
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Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
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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...
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ARE NOT WISE:
Or, understand it not...
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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...
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This whole verse is a reflection upon the false teachers of the church
of Corinth, from whose manners Paul purgeth himself. I (saith he)
durst not, as some others, magnify myself, nor compare myself w...
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For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of
them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves,
are...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
ne "quis, cure" recte "stare videatur,"[6]...
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2 Corinthians 10:12 For G1063 dare G5111 (G5719) not G3756 ourselves
G1469 (G5658) or G2228 compare G4793
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‘For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of
them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves,
are...
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2 Corinthians 10:12. FOR WE ARE NOT BOLD TO NUMBER OR COMPARE
OURSELVES WITH CERTAIN OF THEM THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES: BUT t HEY
THEMSELVES MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES, AND COMPARING
THEMSELVES...
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TO NUMBER OR COMPARE OURSELVES
(ενκρινα η συνκρινα). Paronomasia here, play on the
two words. Ενκρινα is first aorist active infinitive of old
verb, but here only in N.T., to judge among, to judge o...
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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...
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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...
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OF COURSE. Paul speaks in irony. It was confusing to the Corinthians
that the false teachers and Paul each used different standards to
measure by. Paul now examines this fact. HOW STUPID THEY ARE! "Th...
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A FALSE AND A TRUE MEASURE
But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves with themselves, are without understanding. 2 Corinthians
10:12.
I wonder how many of you...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 3:1; 2 Corinthians 5:12; Job 12:2; Luke 18:11;...
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Make ourselves of the number [ε γ κ ρ ι ν α ι ε α υ τ ο
υ ς]. Rev., better, to number ourselves. Lit., to judge ourselves to
be among : to place in the same category with....
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For we presume not — A strong irony. To equal ourselves — As
partners of the same office. Or to compare ourselves — As partakers
of the same labour. They among themselves limiting themselves —
Choosin...
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Observe here, 1. St. Paul's just charge, which he brings in against
the false apostles, for their pride and vanity, in commending
themselves: and comparing themselves with such as were like
themselves...