Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Corinthians 1:10
Who delivered us from so (g) great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];
(g) From these great dangers.
Who delivered us from so (g) great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];
(g) From these great dangers.
2 CORINTHIANS 1:10 thlikou,tou qana,tou {B} The text is doubtful. On the one hand, the weight of the external evidence seems to favor the singular thlikou,tou qana,tou (a A B C Dgr Ggr K P Y 33 614 1...
Verse 2 Corinthians 1:10. _WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH_] For the circumstances were such that no human power could avail. _WILL YET DELIVER US_] Having had such a signal evidence of His in...
WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH - From a death so terrible, and from a prospect so alarming. It is intimated here by the word which Paul uses, that the death which he apprehended was one of a c...
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...
DELIVERED. Greek. _ruomai,_ Note the different tenses, giving the Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. FROM. out of. Greek. _ek_. App-104. SO GREAT. Greek. _telikoutos._ Only here, Hebrews 2:3.James...
_from so great a death_ i.e. from so great peril of death. St Paul speaks of the liability to _death_as death. Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 4:11-12. Some regard it as equivalent to -so terrible a death." Yet...
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...
ΚΑῚ ῬΎΣΕΤΑΙ (אBC) rather than καὶ ῥύεται (FGKL, Vulg.). AD1 omit both words. BD1M omit ὅτι. 10. ἘΚ ΤΗΛΙΚΟΎΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ. Placed first with emphasis: OUT OF _so great a death delivered us and_ will _deli...
_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...
ΤΗΛΙΚΟΎΤΟΣ (G5082) такой большой, чудовищный, ΈΡΡΎΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΡΎΟΜΑΙ (G4506) спасать. Предлог говорит скорее об опасности, чем о смерти, но использование данного предлога с этим г...
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...
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; DOTH DELIVER. So G. But 'Aleph (') B C read, 'will deliver'-namely, in immediately imminent...
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...
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...
SO GREAT A DEATH] i.e. death with the consciousness that his work in Corinth had been a failure. DOTH DELIVER] RV 'will deliver': i.e. in future dangers which he already foresaw....
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...
WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH. — Death in itself seems hardly to admit of such a qualifying adjective, but the words appear to have been used to represent the incidents of the death which see...
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...
ὅς ἐκ τηλικ. κ. τ. λ.: _who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver_ (reading ῥύσεται). The form of words recalls Romans 15:31 and 2 Timothy 4:17-18, which would give some support to th...
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...
(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...
10._Who hath delivered us from so great a death _Here he applies to himself personally, what he had stated in a general way, and by way of proclaiming the grace of God, he declares that he had not bee...
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;...
WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH,.... Accordingly, being enabled to trust in God, when all human hope and helps failed, to believe in hope against hope, then the Lord appeared for them, and deli...
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver _us_; Ver. 10. _In whom we trust_] Experience breeds confidence. Thou hast, thou shalt, is an ordin...
_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...
FROM SO GREAT A DEATH; of the particular kind of death to which the apostle was exposed we have no certain knowledge. We only know from the present verse that it was very terrible....
WHO DELIVERED US FROM SO GREAT A DEATH AND DOTH DELIVER; IN WHOM WE TRUST THAT HE WILL YET DELIVER US;...
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....
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...
SO GREAT A DEATH, in this text, signifies no more than so great a trial of affliction; as he elsewhere saith, he was _in deaths often, _ that is, in dangers of death. Nor (saith the apostle) were we o...
who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;...
2 Corinthians 1:10 who G3739 delivered G4506 (G5673) us G2248 from G1537 great G5082 death G2288 and G2532
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...
‘Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver. On whom we have set our hope that he will also yet deliver us.' This verse contains a number of significant points. It speaks of ‘so great...
2 Corinthians 1:10. WHO DELIVERED US OUT OF SO GREAT A DEATH. The word points to ‘such a _kind_ of death,' rather than to its greatness, AND WILL DELIVER: IN WHOM OUR HOPE IS THAT HE WILL ALSO STILL D...
OUT OF SO GREAT A DEATH (εκ τηλικουτου θανατου). He had considered himself as good as dead.DELIVERED (ερυσατο)--WILL DELIVER (ρυσετα). Old verb ρυω, middle, ρυομα, draw oneself, as out of a pit...
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...
FROM SUCH TERRIBLE DANGERS. "He saves me daily from such dangers as this!" THAT HE WILL save us AGAIN. "I am not afraid that the Lord will fail us! Look at the examples of the past!...
_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...
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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....
_Who delivered us from so great a death._ "From so great dangers," according to the Latin. The meaning is the same. Ambrose reads "from so great deaths." The Hebrews are wont to apply the name of _dea...
_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,...
1 Samuel 17:37; 1 Samuel 7:12; 2 Peter 2:9; 2 Timothy 4:17; Acts 26:21
We trust that he will still deliver — That we may at length be able to come to you....
Observe here, The deliverer, God; the delivered, St. Paul, and the saints that were in Asia with him; the deliverance itself, or the imminent and impending evil delivered from, DEATH, GREAT DEATH, SO...