2 Corinthians 4:2. BUT WE HAVE RENOUNCED THE HIDDEN THINGS OF SHAME those arts for gaining converts (referred to in chap. 2 Corinthians 2:17) which those who practise them are fain to “hide,” from their “shameful” character, NOT WALKING IN CRAFTINESS such as was used to _entrap_ our Lord into some t... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:4. IN WHOM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD so called from the mysterious power over men, permitted him since the fall (see Luke 4:6; Hebrews 2:14; Revelation 2:13, “where Satan's throne is;” Ephesians 2:2) HATH BLINDED THE MINDS OF THEM WHICH BELIEVE NOT, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:5. FOR WE PREACH NOT OURSELVES, BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD; AND OURSELVES YOUR SERVANTS FOR JESUS' SAKE. Did we preach ourselves, the god of this world would have no cause to fear for his victims: it is in the sinking of ourselves, in our one desire to exalt our Master and save the so... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:8-9. WE ARE PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE, etc. and who would expect from such instruments those marvellous transformations of character which our ministry effects, were it not that “it is God that worketh in us”? _Fourth_ reason why “we faint not,” because, by constant exposure to death in... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:10. ALWAYS BEARING ABOUT IN THE BODY THE DYING (_Gr._ ‘the putting to death') OF JESUS, [1] as virtually dying with Him in our daily exposures to death in His cause: compare 2 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Romans 8:36; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 15:31; 2 Timothy 2:11-13... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:11. FOR WE WHICH LIVE ARE ALWAY DELIVERED UNTO DEATH FOR JESUS SAKE, THAT THE LIFE ALSO OF JESUS MAY BE MANIFESTED IN OUR MORTAL FLESH so as to “reckon” and feel ourselves to be with Him risen again and “alive unto God through Jesus Christ.”... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:13. BUT HAVING THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH (as the Psalmist), ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN (Psalms 116:10), I BELIEVED, AND THEREFORE DID I SPEAK; WE ALSO BELIEVE, AND THEREFORE ALSO WE SPEAK out of the fulness of our heart's conviction and experience, “all the words of this life.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:14. KNOWING THAT HE WHICH RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS [1] SHALL RAISE UP US ALSO WITH JESUS, [2] AND SHALL PRESENT US WITH YOU the parent in the faith with his spiritual children (see Ephesians 5:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:20; Jude 1:24). [1] Here the received reading i... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:15. FOR ALL THINGS ARE FOR YOUR SAKES: ‘Yes; for as I have said, “we are your servants for Jesus' sake,” and that “He that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Him, and shall present us and you” together, so now I say that the whole economy of redemption and the entir... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:16. WHEREFORE on all the foregoing grounds WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN IS DECAYING (see on 2 Corinthians 4:10-12), YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY under a growing experience of “the power” of His resurrection.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 4:17. FOR OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION, WHICH IS BUT FOR THE MOMENT only temporary and but momentary, WORKETH FOR US MORE AND MORE EXCEEDINGLY AN ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY; WHILE WE LOOK that is, not ‘so long as we look,' or ‘provided we look,' but ‘looking as we do,' or ‘inasmuch as we look' NO... [ Continue Reading ]