Silvanus; the same as Silas, Acts 15:22.
In him was yea; all the promises made in him were only yea-steadfast and sure, as is asserted in the following verse. It is implied that Paul, the preacher of such a Saviour, was steadfast also.
Verse 19. _FOR THE SON OF GOD_, c.] If I could have changed my purpose through _carnal_ or _secular_ interests then I must have had the same interest in view when I first preached the Gospel to you, w...
FOR THE SON OF GOD - In this verse, and the following, Paul states that he felt himself bound to maintain the strictest veracity for two reasons; the one, that Jesus Christ always evinced the strictes...
2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had whe...
But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, returning through Corinth from Macedonia, and taking from...
It was with this confidence that I previously planned to visit you, that I might bring you pleasure for the second time, and so go on to Macedonia by way of you, and be sped by you on my way to Judaea...
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
SON. Greek. _huios_. App-108. PREACHED. Greek. _kereseo,_ App-121. AMONG. Greek. _en._ App-104. SILVANUS. Silas. Compare 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1;...
_For the Son of God, Jesus Christ_ St Paul now labours to impress the Corinthians with the weight of the commission with which he had been entrusted to them. It was nothing less than Jesus, the Promis...
St Paul's reason for putting off his coming 15. _And in this confidence_ It was the conviction of this community of interest which made St Paul desire to visit Corinth. It was (see 2 Corinthians 1:23...
Ὁ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΓᾺΡ ΥἹΌΣ. The position of γάρ throws great emphasis on to τοῦ θεοῦ: _for_ GOD’S _Son_: Blass § 80. 4. ‘There was no inconsistency in our doctrine, _for_ what we preached was One in whom i...
15–24. The rest of this chapter and part of the next are taken up with the Apostle’s defence of himself against a charge of ‘lightness’ (ἐλαφρία), _i.e._ of not caring for the Corinthians or for his e...
19–22. Closely connected with what precedes, as is shown by the γάρ, extending and confirming the argument....
_A DESIRE TO SPARE THEM 2 CORINTHIANS 1:19-24:_ The promises of Jesus and His commandments left no doubt. Therefore, those that preach Him cannot manifest a fickle spirit in their preaching either. Je...
ΓΆΡ (G1063) ибо. Положение этого слова подчеркивает _gen._ ΤΟΫ́ ΘΕΟΎ (G2316) Бога (BD, 251). "Ибо это верный Сын Бога" (Plummer). ΚΗΡΥΧΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΚΗΡΎΣΣΩ (G2784) провозглашать, пропо...
YEA, YEA, AND NAY, NAY?— The sense of these verses is, "I did not change my design through levity, nor did I purpose first one thing and then the contrary, as selfish views might determine me, 2 Corin...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Explanation of His Deferred Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:15-24. And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 and by yo...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Acrimony (2 Corinthians 1:12-24) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and...
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. Proof of the unchangeableness of the doctrine fro...
1 Timothy is associated with Paul in this introduction, as Sosthenes is in the former epistle, yet it is evident that Paul himself wrote both epistles, for he continually refers to himself in them, an...
1:19 Silvanus (b-20) * i.e. Silas, Acts 18:5 . *is* (c-31) The apostle here changes from the aorist 'did not become' to the perfect tense of the same verb, translated 'is.' He is not speaking of the c...
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...
PARAPHRASE. 'When you find me now writing from Macedonia before you have had a visit at all, you may think me changeable and capricious. (18) But I assure you solemnly I am not easily turned from my p...
He appeals to his solemn preaching of Christ as the pledge of his sincerity. SILVANUS] Silas (Acts 18:5)....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...
BY ME AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHEUS. — We note an undesigned coincidence with Acts 18:5, where Silas (whose identity with Silvanus is thus proved) is related to have come with Timotheus to join St. Paul...
CHAPTER 3 THE CHURCH'S ONE FOUNDATION. 2 Corinthians 1:15 (R.V) THE emphatic words in the first sentence are "in this confidence." All the Apostle's plans for visiting Corinth, both in general and i...
He has appealed to the faithfulness of God, and this suggests the thought of the unchangeableness of Christ. ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ γὰρ υἱὸς κ. τ. λ.: _for the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was proclaimed among y...
HIS CHANGE OF PLAN WAS NOT DUE TO FICKLENESS. καὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πεποιθήσει ἐβουλόμην κ. τ. λ.: _and in this confidence_ (_sc._, that they would acknowledge his sincerity) _I was minded to come before_ (_sc...
SINCERE LIKE HIS MASTER 2 Corinthians 1:12 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16. As we pass out of this life, and stand in the revealing dawn of...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...
A CHANGE IN PLANS Since they had mutual pride and respect for one another, Paul had confidently planned to visit them on the way to and from Macedonia, but had changed plans to give them time to corre...
(11) For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, (s) was not yea and nay, but in (t) him was yea. (11) He adds also with himself his c...
_It is, was in him. There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the apostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other times saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the sam...
(15) And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; (16) And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you t...
_‘IN HIM WAS YEA’_ ‘In Him was yea.’ 2 Corinthians 1:19 This is an uncommon passage of Scripture; there is not another quite like it in the whole range of the New Testament. Apparently it came to b...
19._For the Son of God _Here we have the proof — because his preaching (283) contained nothing but Christ alone, who is the eternal and immutable truth of God. The clause _preached by us _is emphatic....
The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...
FOR THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST,.... The apostle having asserted that the Gospel preached by them was not yea and nay, variable and different, or what was affirmed at one time was denied at another,...
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, _even_ by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. Ver. 19. _For the Son of God_] What is that to th...
_When I therefore was thus minded_ Having, therefore, purposed this; _did I use lightness_ Did I lightly change my purpose? or, _the things that I purpose_ in general; _do I purpose according to the f...
BUT THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED AMONG YOU BY US, EVEN BY ME AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHEUS, WAS NOT YEA AND NAY, BUT IN HIM WAS YEA....
No fickleness can be charged to the apostle:...
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
15-24 The apostle clears himself from the charge of levity and inconstancy, in not coming to Corinth. Good men should be careful to keep the reputation of sincerity and constancy; they should not res...
The apostle here glveth a reason why he had made truth and sincerity so much his business (which reason obligeth us also, who are as much bound as he to study a conformity to Christ); saith he: THE SO...
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy [Paul's fellow-laborers in founding the church at Corinth], _was not yea and nay, but in him is...
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‘But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him...
2 Corinthians 1:19. FOR THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED AMONG YOU BY US, EVEN BY ME AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHY. It has been observed (by Paley), as an undesigned coincidence between the h...
WAS NOT YEA AND NAY (ουκ εγενετο να κα ου). "Did not become Yes and No."BUT IN HIM IS YEA (αλλα Να εν αυτω γεγονεν). Rather, "But in him Yes has become yes," has proved true. So Paul appeals to t...
2 Corinthians 1:19 I. There is a cry of the soul after certainty and satisfaction. Christ solves the problem of nature. The soul cries in nature. The soul lifts up its painful wail, its note of grief....
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleshi...
CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...
FOR JESUS CHRIST. Paul points to Jesus Christ and the Good News of God's finished work in Christ which he and the others preached, as proof that he is stable and dependable! "Think about the fact that...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:18 Paul can affirm that his WORD... WAS NOT YES AND NO, BUT IN HIM (Christ) IT IS ALWAYS YES because his change of plan was within God’s will....
SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS He consoles the Corinthians, whom in the First Epistle he had sharply rebuked, and absolves the excommunicated fornicator, who was now penitent....
_For the Son of God... was not yea and nay, but in Him was yea._ My preaching and teaching about Christ was not variable, inconstant, and contradictory, but was a constant, uniform statement, for I al...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:12. REJOICING.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically...
Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...
1 John 1:3; 1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:9; 2 John 1:9; 2 Peter 1:17;...
Was not [ο υ κ ε γ ε ν ε τ ο]. Rather, did not prove to be, in the result. In Him was yea [ν α ι ε ν α υ τ ω γ ε γ ο ν ε ν]. Lit., yea has come to pass in Him. He has shown Himself absolutely the trut...
For Jesus Christ, who was preached by us — That is, our preaching concerning him. Was not yea and nay — Was not variable and inconsistent with itself. But was yea in him — Always one and the same, cen...
This verse contains. new argument for the constancy and immutability of St. Paul's doctrine, drawn from the subject matter of his preaching; namely, JESUS CHRIST. As Christ is always one and the same,...