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Verse 2 Corinthians 10:11. _SUCH AS WE ARE IN WORD_] A threatening of
this kind would doubtless alarm the false apostle; and it is very
likely that he did not await the apostle's coming, as he would n...
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LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS ... - Let them not flatter themselves that
there will be any discrepancy between my words and my deeds. Let them
feel that all which has been threatened will be certainly ex...
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III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13
1. The Vindication of His Authority
CHAPTER 10
The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had
received from the Lord....
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PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM
AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of
allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
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Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that
he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because,
just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
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PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
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IN. No preposition. Dative case.
WORD. Greek. _logos_. Same as "speech" above....
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_such a one_ i.e. the man who speaks in this way. See note on ch. 2
Corinthians 2:7.
_that, such as we are in word by letters_ It is evident that St Paul's
opponents were not very measured in their op...
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Caution to those who judge by outward appearance
7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words
here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am
present_in 2 Corinthia...
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ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΛΟΓΙΖΈΣΘΩ. COUNT _this_: comp. 2 Corinthians
10:2; 2 Corinthians 10:7. It is as well to have the same English word
throughout: the R.V. has a different word in each verse; ‘count,’
‘consider,’...
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_PAUL REASONED WITH THE CORINTHIANS 2 CORINTHIANS 10:7-11:_ Paul's
critics were saying that you could just see that they belonged to
Christ. He wanted it understood that he belonged to Christ just as...
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ΛΟΓΙΖΈΣΘΩPRAES. _imper. med. (dep.) 3 pers. sing. от_
ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G3049), _см._ 2 Corinthians 10:7.
ΤΟΙΟΎΤΟΣ (G5108) подобный,
ΟΊΟΣ (G3634) какого рода. Ргоп.
качественное (RWP).
ΠΑΡΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. ac...
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_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_
A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority
Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your
face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Sanctioned (2 Corinthians 10:7-11)
7 Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is
Christ'S, let him remind himself that as he is Christ'S, so ar...
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11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle
makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as
severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
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(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY
As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of
the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2
Corinthi...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 10
V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of
Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
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SUCH WILL WE BE ALSO. — As a verb of some kind must be supplied, it
would be better to give the present: _Such are we._ It is not so much
a threat of what will happen in a particular instance as a sta...
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CHAPTER 23
COMPARISONS.
2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V)
THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but
the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion
of αυτος ε...
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τοῦτο λογιζέσθω κ. τ. λ.: _let such an one, sc._, as
makes comments of the kind just quoted, _reckon this, that_ (_cf._
constr. 2 Corinthians 10:7) _what we are in word by letters when we
are absent,...
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DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS
MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
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ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
2 Corinthians 10:8
There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a
single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God.
Weak a...
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Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer
vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in
mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
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VERSE 11 Clearly, Paul wants them to know he will back his words with
power and prompt action when he is present with them....
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Who in presence indeed am lowly. [1] Literally, humble, (see Luke i.
ver. 48.) that is, of a mean aspect, as to exterior appearances, and
my speech contemptible, without the ornaments of human eloquen...
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(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man
trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this
again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For
t...
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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...
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The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his
connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship,
which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on
h...
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LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS,.... The apostle seems to have in view some
one particular person, though he does not choose to name him, who had
more especially reproached him after this manner; and who w...
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Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such _will we be_ also in deed when we are
present.
Ver. 11. _Such will we be, &c._] That we have not hitherto...
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_Let such a one_, whoever he be, _think this_ Reckon upon this as a
certain fact; _that such as we are in word by letters_ However weighty
and powerful they may be; _when we are absent, such_ The same...
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Paul's authority is powerful:...
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LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS, THAT, SUCH AS WE ARE IN WORD BY LETTERS
WHEN WE ARE ABSENT, SUCH WILL WE BE ALSO IN DEED WHEN WE ARE PRESENT.
With this thought, that he will duly avenge all disobedience t...
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Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at
Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to
earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
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7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of
some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that
none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved...
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I would have no such person think so of me, for he shall find me the
same in deed when I come, that I have spoken myself to be by my
letters. I do not write vainy, merely to terrify you, but what I tr...
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Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when
we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present....
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2 Corinthians 10:11 Let G3049 person G5108 consider G3049 (G5737) this
G5124 that G3754 what G3634 are G2
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‘Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.'
But let those who see him thus be aware that when he comes he will...
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2 Corinthians 10:11. LET SUCH AN ONE RECKON THIS, THAT WHAT... IN WORD
BY LETTERS WHEN... ABSENT, SUCH _ARE WE _ ALSO INDEED WHEN... ABSENT
‘that our words are no idle threats.'...
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WHAT WE ARE
(οιο εσμεν). Rather, "what sort" (οιο), not ο (what) nor
ο (who). Literary plural. Hοιος is qualitative just as
τοιουτο (such). Paul's quality in his letters when absent
(αποντες) and i...
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CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to
Corinthians as brethren in Christ.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own
inf...
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2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being
absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy
insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of
Jer...
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SUCH A PERSON. "If I come and find you still disloyal, you will
discover that I am _in person_ just as strong as my letters!...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:9 ABSENT... PRESENT. See note
on v. 1.
⇐...
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CHAPTER 10
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship
against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and
despicable, and accused him o...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable
that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this,
and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse
1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of
the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am]
bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1):
This is one of the charges that...
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1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Corinthians 4:20; 2 Corinthians 12:20; 2
Corinthians 13:10;...