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Verse 14. _THE THIRD TIME I AM READY_] That is, this is the third
time that _I am ready_-have formed the _resolution_, to visit you. He
had formed this resolution _twice_ before, but was disappointed...
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BEHOLD, THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU - That is, this is
the third time that I have purposed to come and see you, and have made
preparation for it. He does not mean that he had been twice w...
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3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP.
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_
2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7)
3. The Marks of His Apos...
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RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid
oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the
same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2
Corin...
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THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been
commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the
super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have
been...
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BEHOLD. Greek. _idou._ App-133.
THIRD TIME, See 2 Corinthians 13:1 and Introduction Notes.
TO. unto. Greek. _pros._ App-104.
TO YOU. The texts omit.
CHILDREN. Greek. _teknon._ App-108.
LAY UP. tr...
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_Behold, the third time_ We can either interpret this (1) with most
commentators, of some unrecorded visit to Corinth, or (2) with Paley,
that St Paul is speaking here and in ch. 2 Corinthians 13:1 of...
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Continuation of the Defence
11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I
become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and
versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
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14–18. He changes from irony to affectionate earnestness, telling
them that he must continue the ἀδικία of working for nothing,
and explaining why this must be so. It is still quite evident that he
is...
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ΤΡΊΤΟΝ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ (אABFG, Syrr. Latt. Aeth.) rather than
τοῦτο τρίτον (D, Copt. Arm.) or τρίτον (KLP). The
evidence for τοῦτο, which Rec. omits, is overwhelming. But
ΚΑΤΑΝΑΡΚΉΣΩ (AB 17, 67, 71, 73, 80, Ae...
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_ PAUL'S CONCERN FOR CORINTH 2 CORINTHIANS 12:14-21:_ Paul planned a
third visit to Corinth. Even then he did not want to be a burden to
them. He said, "What I really want is you, and not what you hav...
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ΙΔΟΎ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть;
здесь: смотрите! Вот! ΤΡΊΤΟΝ ΤΟΫ́ΤΟ
(G5154; G3778) "это в третий раз"
ΈΤΟΊΜΩΣ (G2093) с готовностью.
Используется с гл. ΈΧ (G2192) _praes. ind. act._...
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DISCOURSE: 2045
THE DUTY OF MINISTERS
2 Corinthians 12:14. _I seek not yours, but you_.
DISINTERESTEDNESS, in whatever it appears, is universally
admired—-But most of all does its excellency appear,...
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THE THIRD TIME I AM READY, &C.— Having been disappointed twice
before, 1 Corinthians 16:5. 2 Corinthians 1:15....
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18)
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been
commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Paul's Intended Visit
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 12:14-21. Behold, this is the third time I am ready to
come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours,
but y...
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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be
burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children
ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the chi...
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14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am
not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to
think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...
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HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS
The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation
he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses,
and especially on his bodily infir...
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THE THIRD TIME] His former visits were (1) the visit recorded in Acts
18, when he founded the Church, and (2) the short visit 'in sorrow,'
not mentioned in Acts, but referred to in Acts 2:1 : see Intr...
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PARAPHRASE. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on
former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not
your possessions but your very selves that I want; for you are my
sp...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 12
V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions
and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
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BEHOLD, THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU. — The visit to
Corinth of Acts 18:1. followed by a long sojourn, may perhaps be
reckoned as the first occasion; then came the projected journey from
E...
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CHAPTER 27
NOT YOURS, BUT YOU.
2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V)
EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief
paragraphs into which this passage may be divided:
(1) 2 Corinthians 12:...
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THAT HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE AT CORINTH WAS DISINTERESTED ON HIS
PART....
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ἰδοὺ τρίτον τοῦτο κ. τ. λ.: _behold this is the
third time that I am ready to come to you_. While these words only
express that he had been _ready_ to go twice before, they are quite
consistent with t...
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“I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU”
2 Corinthians 12:11
“The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last
expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point
whence he diverged at...
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The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling
characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something
supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will
glory...
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VERSE 14 During his soon to come visit, Paul would again refuse pay
out of a love for them as a parent for a child (1 Corinthians
4:14-15). He did not seek their money, but the salvation of their
soul...
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Now the third time I am ready to come. So he says again in the next
chapter. That is, he was once with them, he had purposed to come a
second time, and now a third time. --- I seek not the things that...
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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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_A PERSONAL WORK_
‘I seek not your’s, but you.’
2 Corinthians 12:14
As if St. Paul would say, I do not want your silver, I do not want
your gold, or even your praise, I want you; I want you for Chr...
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14._Behold, this third time _He commends his own deed, for which he
had received a very poor requital from the Corinthians. For he says,
that he refrained from taking their worldly substance for two r...
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Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would
glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his
natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
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BEHOLD, THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU,.... Not that he had
been twice at Corinth, and was now about to come a third time; for as
yet he had been but once there, when he first preached to th...
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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be
burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children
ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the chil...
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_Behold, the third time I am ready_ That is, resolved; _to come to
you_ Having purposed it twice before, and been disappointed, 1
Corinthians 16:5; 2 Corinthians 1:15. _And I will not be burdensome to...
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THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU; there is but one recorded
visit of the apostle to Corinth before the date of this epistle; but
he had purposed to visit them twice before, and now he purposed...
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If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel
through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the
grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
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11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their
reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we
have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...
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BEHOLD, THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU: we read in holy writ
but of two journeys which the apostle made to Corinth, ACTS 18:1, ACTS
20:2, and the latter is believed to have been after the wr...
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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will
not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for th...
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2 Corinthians 12:14 Now G2400 (G5628) time G5154 am G2192 (G5719)
ready G2093 come G2064 (G5629) to...
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HE ASSURES THEM OF HIS CARE FOR THEM (2 CORINTHIANS 12:14).
He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time.
But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This suggests
t...
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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will
not be a burden to you. For I seek not yours, but you. For the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for th...
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2 Corinthians 12:14. BEHOLD, THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME
TO YOU not ‘I am a third time ready to do this' (as a number of
critics understand it), but ‘I am ready to come the third time.'...
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THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME
(τριτον τουτο ετοιμως εχω). Had he been already
twice or only once? He had changed his plans once when he did not go
(2 Corinthians 1:15). He will not change his plans...
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2 Corinthians 12:14
The Property Right we are to get in Souls.
I. God evidently means to make every community valuable to every
other, and so far at least every man to every other. We see this on a
m...
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CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan.
CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian
overbalance all he is called upon to be...
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2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of
the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
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THE THIRD TIME. The first was Acts 18:1; the second was the painful
visit mentioned in 2 Corinthians 2:1. He still refuses to take their
money, but he did take money from other churches (2 Corinthians...
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CHAPTER 12
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he
describes his being carried up into the third heaven.
II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
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_Behold the third time._ The first visit was when he converted them;
the second time he was ready to start, but postponed his visit for
good reasons; the third occasion was at the time of his writing,...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
(_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.)
2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember
how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...
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EXPOSITION
The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The
counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more
apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11
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It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in
Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2),
Or...
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1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 11:34; 1 Corinthians 16:5; 1
Corinthians 4:14;...
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The third time — Having been disappointed twice. I seek not yours
— Your goods. But you — Your souls....
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The apostle here acquaints the Corinthians, that he prepared himself.
third time to come unto them, being providentially hindered twice
before, yet with. firm resolution not to be any ways burdensome...