sentence. answer. Greek. apokrima. Only here. Compare App-122. The only issue he could see from his troubles wag "death".
that. in order that. Greek. hina.
not. Greek. me. App-105.
trust. Greek. peitho. App-160. naiseth. Greek. egeiro. App-175.
the dead. App-139.
Verse 2 Corinthians 1:9. _WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES_] The tribulation was so violent and overwhelming, that he had no hope of escaping death. _THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRUST IN OURSELVES_]...
BUT WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES - Margin, “answer.” The word rendered “sentence” (ἀπόκριμα apokrima) means properly an answer, judicial response, or sentence; and is here synonymous wi...
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...
SALUTATION AND INTRODUCTION. 2 Corinthians 1:1 f. Timothy, whose approaching visit to Corinth had been announced in 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 16:11, is now again in Paul's company, and
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
I want you to know, brothers, about the terrible experience which happened to us in Asia, an experience in which we were excessively weighted down till it was beyond bearing, so that we despaired even...
_sentence_ The word thus translated occurs only here in the N. T. It is translated _answer_by Wiclif, Tyndale, and Cranmer: the word _sentence_having been adopted by our translators from the Geneva ve...
The mutual interdependence of St Paul and the Corinthian Church 3. _Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Two feelings rise at once in the Apostle's mind. The first is an overwhel...
ἈΛΛᾺ ΑΥ̓ΤΟῚ ἘΝ ἙΑΥΤΟΙ͂Σ ΤῸ�. NAY, _we_ OURSELVES WITHIN _ourselves_ HAVE GOT _the_ ANSWER _of death_. ‘When we asked whether it was to be life or death for us, our own presentiment said, death.’ The ἀ...
_GOD WILL DELIVER US 2 CORINTHIANS 1:7-11:_ Paul was not disappointed in the spiritual strength of the Corinthian brethren. They had remained steadfast in much suffering and he wanted them to have the...
ΆΛΛΆ (G235) в самом деле, действительно. Это слово выражает подтверждение или эмфатическое (DM, 240). ΈΑΥΤΟΪΣ _dat. pl. от_ ΈΑΥΤΟΫ́ (G1438) сам; здесь: "между собой". Об усилении возвратного значени...
Butler's Comments SECTION 1 Affliction (2 Corinthians 1:1-11) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the s...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Comfort in Affliction Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us...
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: Referring to the...
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...
1:9 in (c-21) * Lit. ' _ the_ God who raises,' &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. 'For it is right, my friends, that you should know that I had to undergo very severe suffering in Ephesus, and was even at death's door. (9) This great danger taught me that my life is in...
THE SENTENCE OF DEATH] RV 'the answer of death.' When he wondered whether the issue would be life or death, his own heart answered, 'Death.' THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRUST] His recovery taught him a stronge...
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...
WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES. — The word translated “sentence” (_apokrima_) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, nor indeed in the LXX. Literally, it means _answer,_ and was pro...
CHAPTER 2 FAITH BORN OF DESPAIR. 2 Corinthians 1:8 (R.V) PAUL seems to have felt that the thanksgiving with which he opens this letter to the Corinthians was so peculiar as to require explanation. I...
HIS RECENT PERIL. 2 Corinthians 1:8. οὐ γὰρ θέλομεν κ. τ. λ.: _for we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about_ (for ὑπέρ with gen. in this sense, _cf._ chap. 2Co 8:23, 2 Corinthians 12:8; 2 Thess...
ἀλλὰ αὐτοὶ κ. τ. λ.: _nay, we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves; i.e._, the danger was so great that the sentence of death had been already pronounced, as it were. ἀπόκριμα might mean “...
SHARING COMFORT IN AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 1:1 This was a circular letter, including in its scope all the scattered communities in the district. _Grace_ was the usual salutation of the West, _Peace_...
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...
GOD DELIVERED PAUL During Paul's trip to Ephesus, trouble arose between Paul and the devoted followers of Diana, who were led by Demetrius (Acts 19:23-41; Acts 20:1). There is no doubt he saw great op...
But we had the sentence of death in (f) ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: (f) I was resolved within myself to die....
_The sentence. Literally, the answer of death, by which death seemed unavoidable; and this God permitted to teach us not to trust, or confide, in ourselves, but in him only, &c. (Witham)_...
(8) For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: (9) But we had...
_TRUST_ ‘We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God Which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in Whom we trus...
9._Nay more, we had the sentence of death _This is as though we should say — “I had already laid my account with dying, or had regarded it as a thing fixed.” He borrows, however, a similitude from tho...
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;...
BUT WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES,.... By the sentence of death is meant, not any decree of heaven, or appointment of God that they should die; nor any sentence of condemnation and death p...
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Ver. 9. _But we had the sentence_] Gr. Απολριμα, the answer or denunciation of...
_For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant_ As if he had said, We speak thus concerning the sufferings wherewith God is pleased to exercise his people, because we have lately experienced them in a...
SENTENCE OF DEATH; were cut off from all human means of help, and doomed apparently to immediate death....
BUT WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES, THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRUST IN OURSELVES, BUT IN GOD, WHICH RAISETH THE DEAD;...
Paul's recent peril:...
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....
SENTENCE: Or, answer...
1-11 We are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The Lord is able to give peace to the troubled conscience, and to calm...
BUT WE HAD THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES; we verily thought we should have been killed; and so it is expounded by the last words of the former verse, WE DESPAIRED EVEN OF LIFE. And this God did t...
yea, we ourselves have had the sentence [or answer] _of death within ourselves_ [i. e., when we asked ourselves, "Can we possibly live?" we were compelled in our hopelessness to answer, "No; we must d...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "That we should trust not in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead," says the apostle, "who delivered us from so great a death, that our faith should not sta...
2 Corinthians 1:9 Yes G235 G846 had G2192 (G5758) sentence G610 death G2288 in G1722 ourselves G1438 that...
GOD BOTH AFFLICTS AND COMFORTS ALL WHO ARE HIS FOR THEIR SALVATION (2 CORINTHIANS 1:3). The verses that follow lay the foundation of what he will say throughout the letter. At first sight they might a...
‘Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.' Indeed they had felt themselves under sentence of death, and...
YEA (αλλα). Confirmatory use as in 2 Corinthians 7:11, rather than adversative.THE ANSWER OF DEATH (το αποκριμα του θανατου) This late word from αποκρινομα, to reply, occurs nowhere else in N.T.,...
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...
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...
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...
BUT THIS HAPPENED. "God let me come so near death that I could almost feel myself already dead! He did this to teach me not to trust ANYONE except Him, who raises the dead....
_And whether we be afflicted … or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation._ PERSONAL SUFFERINGS I. Are often experienced in the rest of enterprises (2 Corinthians 11:23; 2...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 Paul offers praise to God as he introduces the main themes to follow. ⇐...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:1 Paul’s Defense of His Ministry as an Apostle. Paul’s ministry reflects the work of the Holy Spirit. ⇐
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....
_But we had the sentence of death in ourselves_. "But," here, has the meaning of "moreover." Nature and inclination presaged and expected nothing but death; and when I thought of the state of my life,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:8.—No certainty as to the “_affliction_” referred to, whether some outward persecution at Ephesus (query at Ephesus at all?) known to his readers (query that of Romans...
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,...
2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 4:14;...
Sentence of death [α π ο κ ρ ι μ α τ ο υ θ α ν α τ ο υ]. Apokrima, occurs only here in the New Testament, and not in classical Greek nor in the Septuagint. In the latter the kindred words have, almost...
Yea, we had the sentence of death in ourselves — We ourselves expected nothing but death....
Observe here, The great and imminent danger which the apostle was in: his very life was in. hazard, nay, even despaired of; he looked upon himself as. dead man: but when he had thus sentenced himself,...