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 εκδαπαναω, late compound to spend utterly, to spend out, (εκ-), to spend wholly. Only here in N.T.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
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_....
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...
_ 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...
ΉΔΙΣΤΑ (G2234), _см._ 2 Corinthians 12:9. ΔΑΠΑΝΉΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΑΠΑΝΆΩ (G1159) тратить деньги, быть расточительным, использовать, расточать (GELTS, 95). Об использовании этого слова в папирус...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THOUGH THE MORE ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED] RV 'If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?'...
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...
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...
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:...
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;...
THAT HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE AT CORINTH WAS DISINTERESTED ON HIS PART....
“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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU; THOUGH THE MORE ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED....
WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:...
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...
YOU: _ Gr._ your souls...
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...
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...
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?...
2 Corinthians 12:15 And G1161 I G1473 gladly G2236 spend G1159 (G5692) and G2532 spent G1550 (G5701)
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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;...
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
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...
1 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 1:6;...
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....
I will gladly spend — All I have. And be spent — Myself....