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2 CORINTHIANS 12:15 eiv {B}
In order to give added emphasis the Textus Receptus, following ac Dc K
L P most minuscules vg syrp, h goth arm eth, adds kai, after eiv. The
reading...
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Verse 15. _AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU_] I will
continue to act as a loving father, who spends all he has upon his
children, and expends his own strength and life in providing fo...
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AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND - I am willing to spend my strength, and
time, and life, and all that I have, for your welfare, as a father
cheerfully does for his children. Any expense which may be nece...
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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...
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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...
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THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been
commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the
super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have
been...
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SPEND. Greek. _dapanao._ See Acts 21:24.
BE SPENT. Greek. _ekdapanao._ Spend out, exhaust. Only her
YOU. your souls (App-110.)
LOVE. Greek. _agapao._ App-136....
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Continuation of the Defence
11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I
become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and
versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
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_very gladly_ Or _most_gladly.
_spend and be spent_ St Paul regards himself but as a gift of Christ's
love, in that he has been made a channel of His grace. Simply as such,
as a means whereby Christ...
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14–18. He changes from irony to affectionate earnestness, telling
them that he must continue the ἀδικία of working for nothing,
and explaining why this must be so. It is still quite evident that he
is...
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15. εἰ (אABFG 17, Copt.) rather than εἰ καί (א3D2D3KLP, f
Vulg. Syrr. Arm. Aeth.): D, d g omit both εἰ and καί. Perhaps
ἈΓΑΠΩ͂ (אA 17, Copt.) rather than ἀγαπῶν (א3BDFGKLP,
Latt.). See notes _ad loc_....
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_ 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...
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I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT— "I will gladly exhaust my
strength, and put myself to any expence too, for your salvation;
though the consequence of all should be, that the more abundantly I
lo...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18)
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been
commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
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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...
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more
abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND - all I have.
BE SPENT - all that I am; more than even nat...
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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...
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THOUGH THE MORE ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED] RV 'If I
love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?'...
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PARAPHRASE. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on
former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not
your possessions but your very selves that I want; for you are my
sp...
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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...
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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...
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AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT. — The pronoun is
emphatic, _I, for my part._ The latter verb implies spending to the
last farthing. As he sought not _theirs,_ but _them,_ so he is ready
to...
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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:...
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ἐγὼ δὲ ἥδιστα κ. τ. λ.: _and I will most gladly
spend and be wholly spent for your souls' sake_ (_cf._ chap. 2
Corinthians 1:6; Romans 9:3; Philippians 2:17;...
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THAT HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE AT CORINTH WAS DISINTERESTED ON HIS
PART....
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“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...
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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...
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VERSE 15 Like a father, he would give up all he had for the salvation
of his spiritual children. He wonders if this greater love will cause
them to love less....
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_I most gladly will spend [2] all, and even my life, for your sake,
and so as to be spent, and even sacrificed, for your souls; though the
more I love you, the less you or some of you love me, a kind...
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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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15._And I will most gladly spend _This, certainly, was an evidence of
a more than fatherly affection — that he was prepared to lay out in
their behalf not merely his endeavors, and everything in his p...
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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...
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AND I WILL GLADLY SPEND,.... Meaning all his time, talents, and
strength, which God had bestowed upon him for their spiritual profit
and advantage; yea, all that small pittance of worldly goods that h...
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more
abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Ver. 15. _Spend and be spent_] If like clouds we do sweat ourselves to
death, so souls m...
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_Behold, the third time I am ready_ That is, resolved; _to come to
you_ Having purposed it twice before, and been disappointed, 1
Corinthians 16:5; 2 Corinthians 1:15. _And I will not be burdensome to...
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AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU; THOUGH THE MORE
ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED....
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WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS.
Their love should have commended him in his love for them:...
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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...
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YOU:
_ Gr._ your souls...
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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...
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AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU; I am so far from
desiring your money, that, if I had it, I would willingly spend it for
you; and I do spend my strength for you, willing to die in yo...
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And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love
you more abundantly, am I loved the less?...
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2 Corinthians 12:15 And G1161 I G1473 gladly G2236 spend G1159 (G5692)
and G2532 spent G1550 (G5701)
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‘And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love
you more abundantly, am I loved the less?'
And he is happy that it should be so. He is delighted to spend
himself, until he is abso...
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HE ASSURES THEM OF HIS CARE FOR THEM (2 CORINTHIANS 12:14).
He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time.
But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This suggests
t...
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2 Corinthians 12:15. AND I WILL MOST GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT (_Gr._
‘spent out') FOR YOUR SOULS. IF I LOVE YOU MORE ABUNDANTLY, AM I
LOVED THE LESS? [1]
[1] This is certainly the true reading, and...
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I WILL MOST GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT
(ηδιστα δαπανησω κα εκδαπανηθησομα).
Both future active of old verb δαπαναω (Mark 5:26) to spend
money, time, energy, strength and the future passive of
εκδαπα...
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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...
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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...
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I WILL BE GLAD to. Paul's whole life is a living sacrifice in
imitation of Jesus Christ. Compare Mark 10:45. WILL YOU! They have
completely misunderstood his act of self-sacrifice. He intended this
as...
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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...
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_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;...
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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
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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...
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1 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2
Corinthians 1:6;...
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Be spent [ε κ δ α π α ν η θ η σ ο μ α ι]. Only here in
the New Testament. To spend utterly. Later Greek writers use the
simple verb dapanaw to expend, of the consumption of life....
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I will gladly spend — All I have. And be spent — Myself....