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Verse 2 Corinthians 7:2. _RECEIVE US_] χωρησατε ημας. This
address is variously understood. _Receive us_ into your
_affections_-love us as we love you. _Receive us_ as your _apostles_
and teachers; we...
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RECEIVE US - Tyndale renders this: “understand us.” The word used
here (χωρήσατε chōrēsate) means properly, give space,
place, or room; and it means here evidently, make place or room for us
in you...
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8. THE APOSTLE'S EXHORTATIONS AND REJOICINGS.
CHAPTER 6:14-7
_ 1. His Exhortations. (2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 .)_
2. His Rejoicing and Confidence. (2 Corinthians 7:2
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2 Corinthians 7:2. With 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul returns to the thought
of 2 Corinthians 6:13. Make wide your hearts.. Make room in them for
us. The sentences which follow are full of changing emotion,...
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GET YOU OUT (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1)
7:1 Do not allow yourselves to become joined in an alien yoke with
unbelievers. What partnership can there be between righteousness and
lawless...
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We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have taken
advantage of no one. I am not speaking with any intention of
condemnation. I have already told you that you are in our hearts, so
that I...
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RECEIVE. Make room for. Greek. _choreo._ See John 21:25. Compare 2
Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 6:13.
WRONGED. Greek. _adikeo._ See...
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Exhortation to set aside all suspicion and to confide in the Apostle's
love and zeal for their spiritual well-being
2. _Receive us_ Literally, MAKE ROOM FOR US (-capaces estote nostri,"
Erasmus and C...
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ΧΩΡΉΣΑΤΕ ἩΜΑ͂Σ. OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (R.V.); _make
room for us_ in your hearts as in Matthew 19:11-12. Neither there nor
here does it mean ‘understand rightly’: comp. Mark 2:2; John 2:6;...
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2–4. Return to the appeal for reconciliation, which in turn brings
him back to the subject of the news brought by Titus, of which he
began to tell in 2 Corinthians 2:12, but from which he almost at on...
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_PERFECT HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1-3:_ Since God
has given us His great promises we should stay away from everything
that contaminates and defiles either our body or our spirit. Pe...
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WE HAVE DEFRAUDED NO MAN.— The original word signifies, "to indulge
a covetous temper, and make a prey of others by it;" and perhaps
intimates, that the false teachers, of whom he had so much reason t...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Appeal for Purity
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 7:1-3. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting
holines...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 1
Augmentation (2 Corinthians 7:2-9)
2 Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no
one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3I do not say this to...
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Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have
defrauded no man.
RECEIVE US - with enlarged hearts ().
WE HAVE WRONGED ... CORRUPTED ... DEFRAUDED NO MAN (cf. ) - the
groun...
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17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from
memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit
the occasion.
2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
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7:2 ruined (k-10) Or 'corrupted.'...
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_(E) 7:2-16. THE APOSTLE'S JOY IN THE CORINTHIANS' REPENTANCE_
St. Paul goes on to ask them to give him their affection, and renews
his assurance of purity of deed and motive. He tells them of the
sus...
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PARAPHRASE. 'Give us your affection; we have done no man any injury
either in influence or in character or in pocket. (3) I am not
returning to this subject to blame you again, for whether I live or
d...
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RECEIVE US] RV 'Open your hearts to us.' WE HAVE WRONGED.. CORRUPTED..
DEFRAUDED NO MAN] St. Paul is referring to charges that had been
brought against him. For hints as to these, cp. 2 Corinthians 11...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 7
V2 Be sincere with us. We have not done wrong things to anyone. We
have not made anyone behave wrongly. We have not che...
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RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN. — Better, _Make room for us_;
_we wronged no man:_ with the same change of tense in the verbs that
follow. There is an almost infinite pathos in that entreaty, utte...
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CHAPTER 19
REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE.
2 Corinthians 7:2 (R.V)
IN this fine passage St. Paul completes, as far as it lay upon his
side to do so, his reconciliation with the Corinthians. It concludes
the f...
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HE CLAIMS THEIR SYMPATHY AGAIN. He now resumes the appeal which is
interrupted at 2 Corinthians 6:13 by the parenthetical warning 2
Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1....
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χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς κ. τ. λ.: _make room for us, sc._, in
your hearts, _i.e._, let there be no στενοχωρία, (2
Corinthians 6:12); _we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took
advantage of no man_. Appare...
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to 2 Corinthians 7:1. PARENTHETICAL. HE WARNS THEM AGAINST TOO
FAMILIAR ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR HEATHEN NEIGHBOURS. These verses are
somewhat perplexing, inasmuch as they seem to interrupt the appeal o...
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SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS
2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1
Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the
channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was so...
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The section culminates in an appeal full of local coloring and
suggestion. In a great cry he gave expression to the hunger of his
heart when he wrote, "Make room for us" (see margin). He then declared...
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VERSE 2 Paul now makes an appeal for them to make room in their hearts
for him. They had no reason to be closed against him since he had not
led any man into sin, or corrupted any man's morals or fait...
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(1) (b) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man,
we have defrauded no man.
(1) He returns again from that admonition to his own person,
contrasting with them the testimonies both...
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_Receive us. [1] This, according to St. John Chrysostom and others, is
the same as what he said before, be enlarged or dilated in heart, that
is, have a love, and true charity, and a zeal for us, and...
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(2) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we
have defrauded no man. (3) I speak not this to condemn you: for I have
said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with...
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2._Make room for us. _Again he returns from a statement of doctrine to
treat of what more especially concerns himself, but simply with this
intention — that he may not lose his pains in admonishing th...
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The apostle returns to his own relationships with the Corinthians
relations formed by the word of his ministry. And now having laid open
what this ministry really was, he seeks to prevent the bonds be...
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RECEIVE US,.... Into your affections, let us have a place in your
hearts, as you have in ours: Gospel ministers ought to be received
with love and respect, both into the hearts and houses of the saint...
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Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have
defrauded no man.
Ver. 2. _Receive us_] Gr. χωρησατε, _Locum date._ Make room
for us in your hearts and houses. Set wide open the...
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_Receive us_ With that affection which is due to the faithful servants
of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion
and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by i...
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RECEIVE US; into your hearts, as apostles and ministers of Christ;
give us your affectionate confidence and ready obedience. There is
here an allusion to the exhortation, "Be ye also enlarged," 2
Cori...
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PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS.
A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:...
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RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN, WE HAVE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE HAVE
DEFRAUDED NO MAN....
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Verse 1 is plainly connected with chapter 6. Because the saints of God
have these promises, and because they are dearly beloved, they are
exhorted to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the fles...
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1-4 The promises of God are strong reasons for us to follow after
holiness; we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and
spirit. If we hope in God as our Father, we must seek to be holy...
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RECEIVE US; let us have a room in your hearts and esteem, or (more
generally) accept us, as you ought to receive and accept the ministers
of Christ. As our heart is enlarged towards you, so let your h...
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[In this section the apostle appeals to the Corinthians to accept him
as a true apostle and minister of Christ, and as persuasive to this
end he sets forth his affection for them, his anxiety concerni...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "We have injured no man, corrupted
no man, circumvented no man."[372]...
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2 Corinthians 7:2 Open G5562 (G5657) us G2248 wronged G91 (G5656) one
G3762 corrupted G5351 (G5656) one...
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‘Make room in your hearts for us. We wronged no man, we corrupted no
man, we took advantage of no man. I say it not to condemn you: for I
have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together a...
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THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF TITUS AND PAUL'S FULL RECONCILIATION WITH THE
CORINTHIAN CHURCH (2 CORINTHIANS 7:1)
Having searchingly examined their credentials by portraying to them
the essence of the new...
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HAVING CONFIRMED HIS OWN CREDENTIALS AND HIS OWN WAY OF LIVING HE
PLEADS FOR A THEM TO TURN FROM ALL THAT MIGHT HINDER THEM AND FOR
THEIR EQUAL FULL AND EXCLUSIVE RESPONSE TO GOD AND TO CHRIST (2
CORI...
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2 Corinthians 7:2. OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (_Gr. ‘_ Make room for
us,' in your hearts), (see on 2 Corinthians 6:11-13); WE WRONGED NO
MAN (when we were with you), WE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE...
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OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US
(χωρησατε ημας). Old verb (from χωρος, place), to
leave a space, to make a space for, and transitive here as in Matthew
19:11. He wishes no further στενοχωρια, tightness of he...
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CONTENTS: Paul opens his heart to the Corinthians concerning purpose
of his former letter.
CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Titus.
CONCLUSION: The true servant of God cannot but be grieved that he must
rebuke...
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2 Corinthians 7:1. _Having therefore these promises._ Our good
archbishop Langton is blamed by many critics for separating this verse
from the preceding chapter. The great and precious promises of the...
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MAKE ROOM. It is not possible for the Corinthians and Paul to be
friends as long as they listen to the slander of the false teachers
against him! but THEY must act to make room in their hearts for Pau...
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_Receive us; we have wronged no man._
THE APOSTLE’S REQUEST
I. The ground on which he urged it--viz., that he deserved it.
1. It was a simple matter of justice. “We have wronged no man,”
etc. The ap...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 7:2 Paul resumes the exhortation
from 2 Corinthians 6:11. The Corinthians are to side with Paul and
reject the false teachers (see...
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CHAPTER 7
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He declares his love, sincerity, and his confidence in the
Corinthians.
II. He declares (ver. 6) his joy at their repentance and amendment.
III. He states (ver...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 7:1. THEREFORE.—This verse a branch broken from 2
Corinthians 6:16. This word is like the jagged fibres which tell of
the violence, and point back to the parent stem. HA...
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EXPOSITION
Conclusion of his appeal (2 Corinthians 7:1). The apostle's feelings
towards them (2 Corinthians 7:2). Explanation of the objects of his
last letter, and expression of his joy at the good r...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to II Corinthians, chapter seven.
The first verse of chapter seven immediately refers us back to chapter
six. And so as we look at this, we realize that chapter seven m...
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1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians
2:3;...
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Receive [χ ω ρ η σ α τ ε]. From cwrov place or space.
Primarily, to leave a space, make room for. See on containing, John
2:6; John 8:37. The meaning here is make room for us. Rev., open your
hearts t...
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Receive us — The sum of what is said in this, as well as in the
tenth and following chapters. We have hurt no man — In his person.
We have corrupted no man — In his principles. We have defrauded no
ma...
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Observe here, 1. The duty which St. Paul exhorts the Corinthians to,
namely, to receive him, their apostle, into their kind affections into
the bosom of their love, RECEIVE US; that is, into your best...