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Verse 2 Corinthians 9:5. _WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE_] Instead of
προκατηγγελμενην, _spoken of before_, BCDEFG, several
others, with the _Coptic, Vulgate, Itala_, and several of the
_fathers_, have...
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THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY ... - In order to secure the
collection, and to avoid all unpleasant feeling on all hands.
THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU - Before I should come.
AND MAKE UP BEFO...
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2. EXHORTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
CHAPTER 9
_ 1. Further Exhortations to Liberality. (2 Corinthians 9:1)_
2. The Blessings Connected with Giving. (2 Corinthians 9:6 .)
Again he exhorts them to libe...
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2 Corinthians 9:1. On the general subject, the obligation to provide
assistance for God's people, there is no need for Paul to write to the
Corinthians. They have already acknowledged that obligation,...
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It is superfluous for me to write to you about this service designed
to help God's dedicated people, for I know your eagerness, about which
I have boasted for you to the Macedonians, for I have told t...
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THE WILLING GIVER (2 Corinthians 9:1-5)...
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EXHORT. Greek _parakaleo._ App-134.
UNTO. Gr _. eis_. App-10.
MAKE UP BEFOREHAND. Greek. _prokatartizo._ Only here. Compare App-125.
BOUNTY. blessing, Greek. _eulogia._ Translated "blessing" eleven...
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_the brethren_ i.e. those mentioned in the last chapter.
_go before_ i.e. before the Apostle.
_your bounty, whereof ye had notice before_ Rather, according to the
best MSS., -your PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCE...
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5. The threefold προ- is doubtless intentional: he insists that all
must be ready before he arrives. Comp. 2 Corinthians 13:2 and the
repetition of πᾶς in 2 Corinthians 9:8.
ΠΡΟΕΠΗΓΓΕΛΜΈΝΗΝ. AFORE-PRO...
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1–5. The assistance to be rendered to the three delegates. What the
Corinthians have to give should be collected soon, so as to be ready
when S. Paul arrives....
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_SOW BOUNTIFULLY AND REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY 2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-7:_ God's
desire for our giving is that it be both willing and bountiful.
Christians should give because they want to, and not because they...
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WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE— _Which had been spoken of before,_
namely, to the Macedonian Christians, 2 Corinthians 9:2. The word
πλεονεξιαν, rendered _covetousness,_ signifies a kind of
force, by wh...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Ministering To The Saints
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 9:1-5. For as touching the ministering to the saints, it
is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 for I know your readiness, o...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 4
Compulsion (2 Corinthians 9:1-7)
9 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for
the saints, -for I know your readiness, of which I boast about yo...
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matte...
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5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure
motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or
from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
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9:5 blessing, (a-21) 'Blessing.' The sense is plain, though the word
is unusual. I note it in view of verse 6. It is the spirit in which a
man gives. as God gives, freely to bless, so ought we. and su...
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YOUR BOUNTY, WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE] RV 'your aforepromised
bounty.'
BOUNTY, AND NOT.. COVETOUSNESS] He desired their gift to be ready
before he came, that it might be evident to the delegates...
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_(C) 9:1-15. EXHORTATIONS TO GENEROUS GIVING_
There is no need to write to you about the purpose and necessity of
the collection, for your zeal in the matter is well known, and has
been used by me as...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 9
V1 I do not really need to write to you about help for other
Christians. V2 I know how eager you are to help. I have to...
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THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY... — The brethren were to go before
St. Paul, so as to get all things ready for his arrival. There were to
be no hurried and unsatisfactory collections then.
YOUR BOUN...
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ἀναγκαῖον οὖν ἡγησάμην κ. τ. λ.:
_therefore, sc._, because of the reason in 2 Corinthians 9:4, _I
thought it necessary to exhort the brethren_ (inasmuch as two of these
“brethren” were not chosen by S...
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HE IS CONFIDENT OF THEIR READINESS TO GIVE; BUT TITUS AND HIS
COMPANIONS HAVE BEEN SENT ON, THAT THE COLLECTION MAY BE READY WHEN HE
ARRIVES AT CORINTH....
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“GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER”
2 Corinthians 9:1
Paul evidently had considerable anxiety about the collection at
Corinth for the starving saints at Jerusalem. He had started the idea,
not merely becau...
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In concluding this subject of the collection for the saints the
apostle declares that he desires that their giving should be glad and
spontaneous. He excludes two methods of giving, "grudgingly," that...
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VERSE 5 Thus, the brethren were sent ahead of Paul that the
Corinthians could give freely rather than feeling pressured into
giving because they feared Paul's rebuke. Aa gift freely given is the
only...
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matte...
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_Not forced from covetousness. Literally, not as avarice, as it were
extorted from covetous people, who give unwillingly. (Witham)_...
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(1) For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous
for me to write to you: (2) For I know the forwardness of your mind,
for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was...
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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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5._As a blessing, not in the way of niggardliness _In place of
_blessing, _some render it _collection. _I have preferred, however, to
render it literally, as the Greeks employed the term
εὐλογίας to e...
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In the next Chapter the apostle (being on his way to Judea) exhorts
the Corinthians to prepare relief for the poor of Israel; sending
Titus that all might be ready as of a willing mind a disposition o...
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THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO EXHORT THE BRETHREN,.... Titus,
and the other two, on whom he did not lay his commands, or apostolical
injunctions, according to the authority and dignity of his of...
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as _a matte...
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_Yet have I sent the brethren_ Above mentioned before me; _lest our
boasting of you should be in vain_ Lest you should be found
unprepared. To _make up beforehand_ To complete before my arrival;
_your...
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GO BEFORE; before he went himself, accompanied by others of Macedonia.
BOUNTY-NOT AS OF COVETOUSNESS; as a freewill-offering, not as if
extorted by importunity....
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THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO EXHORT THE BRETHREN THAT THEY
WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU AND MAKE UP BEFOREHAND YOUR BOUNTY, WHEREOF
YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE, THAT THE SAME MIGHT BE READY, AS A MATTER O...
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The gifts of Christians should be measured by the greatness of their
love toward God:...
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Paul does not stress the rightness of their ministering to the saints:
this would be superfluous, for of this they were already persuaded,
and so expressed themselves, so that Paul had boasted to the...
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BOUNTY:
_ Gr._ blessing
WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE:
Or, which hath been so much spoken of before...
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1-5 When we would have others do good, we must act toward them
prudently and tenderly, and give them time. Christians should consider
what is for the credit of their profession, and endeavour to ador...
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OLBGrk;OLBHeb;
This was the cause why I judged it reasonable to send the three
brethren, before mentioned, unto you, that they might make up your
bounty; prokatartiswsi, not so much to move, quicken,...
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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand [i. e., before my
coming] _your afore-promised bounty, that the same might be ready...
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2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore G3767 thought G2233 (G5662) necessary G316
exhort G3870 (G5658) brethren G80 to G2443
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‘I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they
would go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously
promised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty,...
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FURTHER REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD REVEAL THEIR GENEROSITY (2 CORINTHIANS
9:1).
It is often noted that this chapter appears to repeat to some extent
the ideas in chapter 8, yet from a different angle, an...
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2 Corinthians 9:5. I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY, THEREFORE, TO ENTREAT THE
BRETHREN, THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU, AND MAKE UP BEFORE -
HAND YOUR AFORE-PROMISED BOUNTY (_Gr._ ‘blessing') your collecti...
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I THOUGHT
(εγησαμην). Epistolary aorist again. See Philippians 2:25 for
the expression here.GO BEFORE
(προελθωσιν). Second aorist active of προερχομα. Go
to you before I come.MAKE UP BEFOREHAND...
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CONTENTS: Offering for the Jerusalem saints. Encouragement for givers.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Our return in blessings will be proportionate to what we
sow. Let our works of charit...
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2 Corinthians 9:1. _Touching the ministering to the saints_ in Judea,
_it is superfluous for me to write to you._ What a method of finding
the avenues of the heart. He knew their forwardness he had bo...
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SO I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY. Paul seems to be saying that they have
wasted too much time already! BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. It is important
that this be a gift out of their free will, not something they are...
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_As touching the ministering to the saints._
LIBERAL GIVING
I. Why does God call us to give?
1. He cannot need our gifts. We can give Him nothing that we did not
first get from Him.
2. It must be s...
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CHAPTER 9
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He proceeds to stimulate the Corinthians to almsgiving by motives
of human shame and praise; he bids them not to be put to shame before
the liberality of the Mac...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 9:1—Connected, in word [περί, in both cases] and
in fact, with 1 Corinthians 15:1, which belongs to the initiation of
this “collection,” this “ministration” for the poor...
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EXPOSITION
Encouragement to the Corinthians to fulfil their promises by giving
speedily (2 Corinthians 9:1), amply (2 Corinthians 9:6), cheerfully (2
Corinthians 9:7), and thereby earn God'
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter nine.
Paul has been, in the last couple of Chapter s, talking to them about
the collection that he wanted them to take for the poor in Jerusalem....
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1 Corinthians 16:2; 1 Samuel 25:27; 1 Samuel 30:26; 2 Corinthians 8:6;...
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Go before. Notice the thrice repeated before, emphasizing the
injunction to have everything ready before Paul's arrival.
Make up beforehand [π ρ ο κ α τ α ρ τ ι σ ω σ ι ν].
Adjust. See on Matthew 4:21...
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Spoken of before — By me, to the Macedonians. Not as a matter of
covetousness — As wrung by importunity from covetous persons....