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Verse 2 Corinthians 12:21. _LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN_] And even after
all that has been done for you, I fear that when I _do come_-when I
pay you my _second_ visit, _my God will humble me_-will permit...
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AND LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD WILL HUMBLE ME ... - Lest I should
be compelled to inflict punishment on those whom I suppose to have
been converted under my ministry. I had rejoiced in them as tr...
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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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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...
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THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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HUMBLE. Greek. _tapeinoo._ See 2 Corinthians 11:7.
AMONG. before. Greek. _pros._ App-104.
BEWAIL. mourn for.
WHICH. of those who.
SINNED ALREADY. sinned before. Greek. _proarnartano._ Only here and...
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_among you_ Or, with some interpreters, _in reference to_you. The
literal translation is TO you.
_which have sinned already_ Literally, those who have sinned BEFORE,
i.e. either (1) before their conve...
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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....
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ἘΛΘΌΝΤΟΣ ΜΟΥ (אABFGP 39, 93) rather than ἐλθόντα
με (א3DKL); and perhaps also ΤΑΠΕΙΝΏΣΗΙ ΜΕ (אA) rather
than ταπεινώσει με (BDFGP) or ταπεινώσῃ (K) or
ταπεινώσει (D3L). But _both_ ἐλθόντα με and
ταπει...
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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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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...
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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 lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and
that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not
repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which...
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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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12:21 to (c-8) Or 'amongst you.'...
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WHEN I COME AGAIN] The 'again' should be joined with the next clause,
'God will again humble me.' He had been humbled at his last
visit—the visit 'in heaviness' referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:1....
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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 LEST WHEN I COME AGAIN... — The words do not imply more than one
previous visit (Acts 18:1), but it can scarcely be said that they
exclude the supposition of another. (See Note on 2 Corinthians 13...
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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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HIS GLORYING HAS NOT BEEN BY WAY OF APOLOGY, BUT TO EDIFY THEM UNTO
REPENTANCE....
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μὴ πάλιν ἐλθόντος μου κ. τ. λ.: _lest when I
come, my God should humble me again before you, sc._, because of the
scanty fruit of his preaching (as had been the case on his _second_
visit), _and I sho...
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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 21 Paul did not want to find such evil since he would be
humiliated and forced to weep over those who refused to turn from
their evil ways. Repentance would cause them to change their minds and...
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He puts them in mind to be all of them reformed, to lay aside
animosities, dissensions, swellings, [3] proceeding from pride,
uncleanness, fornication, &c. which indeed will be a humiliation and
troub...
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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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21._Lest, when I come, my God should humble me _His abasement was
reckoned to him as a fault. The blame of it he throws back upon the
Corinthians, who, when they should have honored his Apostleship,
l...
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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 LEST WHEN I COME AGAIN,.... Another thing which he feared would be
the case when he came again to them, that he himself should be
afflicted and distressed, seeing them in a disorderly and dissolut...
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_And_ lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and
_that_ I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not
repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness wh...
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_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...
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Among the numerous trials which affectionate and successful ministers
of Christ are called to encounter, the disappointment of their hopes
with regard to many who for a time promised well, is by no me...
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AND LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD WILL HUMBLE ME AMONG YOU, AND THAT
I SHALL BEWAIL MANY WHICH HAVE SINNED ALREADY AND HAVE NOT REPENTED OF
THE UNCLEANNESS AND FORNICATION AND LASCIVIOUSNESS WHICH T...
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Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:...
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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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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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From hence it appeareth, that this church of Corinth, though it had
many in it, without doubt, who were true and sincere Christians, yet
had also many it which were otherwise; yea, many that were scan...
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lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I
should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and
repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness
which...
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Tertullian On Modesty
For in saying, toward the end of the Epistle, "Lest, when I shall have
come, God humble me, and I bewail many of those who have formerly
sinned, and have not repented of the imp...
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2 Corinthians 12:21 lest G3361 come G2064 (G5631) again G3825 my G3450
God G2316 humble G5013 (G5661)
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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...
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2 Corinthians 12:21. LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD SHOULD HUMBLE ME
BEFORE YOU. So bound up was his comfort in this and all his churches
with their spiritual prosperity, that the prospect of finding...
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WHEN I COME AGAIN
(παλιν ελθοντος μου). Genitive absolute. Paul assumes
it as true.LEST MY GOD HUMBLE ME
(μη ταπεινωση με ο θεος μου). Negative final
clause (μη and first aorist active subjunctive...
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SINNED
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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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MY GOD WILL HUMILIATE ME. Paul is thinking of that painful second
visit (2 Corinthians 2:1). AND I SHALL WEEP. It will bring him great
sorrow to be forced to punish those who have failed to turn away...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:21 GOD MAY HUMBLE Paul BEFORE
the Corinthians by using Paul as an instrument of their judgment. This
will mean Paul MAY HAVE TO MOURN o
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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 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1
Corinthians 6:9;...
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Among you [π ρ ο ς υ μ α ς]. Better, as Rev., before. In my
relation to you.
Shall bewail [π ε ν θ η σ ω]. Lament with a true pastor's
sorrow over the sin.
Many [π ο λ λ ο υ ς]. With special referen...
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Who had sinned before — My last coming to Corinth. Uncleanness —
Of married persons. Lasciviousness — Against nature....