But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. WITH MYSELF - rather, 'for myself' to spare myself pain: in contrast to "you" (: cf. ). NOT COME AGAIN TO YOU IN HEAVINESS - `sorrow.' He had already paid them one visit in sorrow since his coming for the first... [ Continue Reading ]
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? FOR. Proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness"). IF I. The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this (2 Corinthians 2:1) is not my reason for not coming, since I showe... [ Continue Reading ]
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. I WORE THIS SAME UNTO YOU - namely, that I would not come to you then (), as, if I were to come then, it would have to be... [ Continue Reading ]
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. So far from my change of purpose being due to "lightness" (), I wrote my letter () "out of much affliction and an... [ Continue Reading ]
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. GRIEF ... GRIEVED. Translate as before, "sorrow ... made sorry." The "any" delicately refers to the incestuous person. NOT GRIEVED ME, BUT IN PART - he has grieved me only in part (cf. 2 Corint... [ Continue Reading ]
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. SUFFICIENT - Greek [ hikanon (G2425)], 'a sufficiency' (since he is repenting, 2 Corinthians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 2:7) - without continuing it, so as to drive him to despair (2 Corinthians 2:7); whereas the object of the pun... [ Continue Reading ]
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. WITH OVERMUCH SORROW - `with HIS [ tee (G3588)] overmuch sorrow.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. CONFIRM YOUR LOVE TOWARD HIM - giving effect in act to your love; namely, by restoring him to your fellowship, and praying for his recovery from the sickness penally inflicted.... [ Continue Reading ]
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. FOR. Additional reason why they should restore him-namely, as a "proof" of their obedience "in all things;" now in love, as previously in punishing (), at Paul's desire. Besides other reaso... [ Continue Reading ]
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Another encouragement to their restoring the offender. They may be assured of Paul's apostolic sanction. FOR IF I FORGAVE ANY THING, TO WHOM I FOR... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Literally, 'That we may have no advantage gained over us by Satan'-namely, by letting one member be lost to us through despair, we ourselves furnishing Satan with the weapon, by repulsive harshness to one now penite... [ Continue Reading ]
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, Paul expected to meet Titus at Troas to receive the tidings as to the effect of his first letter on the Corinthians; but, disappointed in his expectation there, he passed on to Macedonia, where... [ Continue Reading ]
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. NO REST IN MY SPIRIT - rather 'no rest for my spirit' (). As here his "spirit" had no rest, so in , his "flesh." His "spirit" - not from mere human impulse, but under... [ Continue Reading ]
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. NOW - Greek, 'But.' Though we left Troas, disappointed in not meeting Titus there, and in having to leave so soon so wide a door, "thanks be unto God," we w... [ Continue Reading ]
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: The Greek order is, 'For (it is) of Christ (that) we are a sweet savour unto God:' the "for" justifies his previous (), "the savour of HIS (Christ's) knowledge." We not only scatter, but 'we are the swe... [ Continue Reading ]
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? THE SAVOUR OF [ ek (G1537 ), FROM] DEATH UNTO DEATH ... OF, [ ek (G1537), from: 'Aleph (') A B C. Delta G f g, Vulgate, omit it, as Received Text, in both plac... [ Continue Reading ]
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. NOT AS MANY (2 Corinthians 11:13; Philippians 2:21) - rather, 'the many;' namely, the false teachers (2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:3). WH... [ Continue Reading ]