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Verse 2 Corinthians 11:11. _WHEREFORE_] Why have I acted thus? and why
do I propose to _continue_ to act thus? is it _because I love you
not_, and will not permit you to contribute to my support? _God...
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WHEREFORE ... - It is not because I do not love you. It is not from
pride, or because I would not as willingly receive aid from you as
from any other. It is not because I am more unwilling to be under...
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2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS.
CHAPTER 11
_ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_
2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7)
3. His Boastings of Labors a...
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A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like
foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that
they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be
exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I
plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render
se...
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LOVE. Greek. _agapao._ App-132.
KNOWETH. Greek. _oida._ App-132....
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_Wherefore? because I love you not_?] See 2 Corinthians 11:7 and note.
The same ironical tone is adopted. -Can you suppose that _this_is a
proof of my indifference towards you?" And then the Apostle s...
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ΔΙᾺ ΤΊ; ‘_Why_ am I so firmly resolved never to accept
maintenance from you?’ Is it because I care too little about you to
wish to be under any obligation to you, or dislike you too much to
accept any...
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THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY
With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2
Corinthians 11:15;...
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_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There
was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact
he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
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ΔΙΆ ΤΊ (G1223; G5101) почему? ΟΊΔΕΝ _perf. ind. act.
от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G3617) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._
Об этом слове _см._ ND, 344-56....
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15)
7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted,
because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Love is often offended at its favours not being accepted, as though
the other party wished to be under no obligation to the offerer....
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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) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_
St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much
an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
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PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I
shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the
district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
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BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT?] This was the reason his enemies gave for his
independence of the Corinthians. GOD KNOWETH] that I love you....
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 11
V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who
recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
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BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT.. — This then had been said. Some of the
Corinthians were jealous, or affected to be jealous, of the preference
shown to the Macedonians in receiving gifts from them. With an
em...
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CHAPTER 25
FOOLISH BOASTING.
2 Corinthians 11:7 (R.V)
THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once
clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in nothing
inf...
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διατί; ὅτι οὐκ ἀγ. κ. τ. λ.: _wherefore? because I
love you not? God knoweth, i.e._, that I _do_ love you....
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HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A
TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT
CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
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CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS
2 Corinthians 11:10
In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the
Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts
with himself...
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Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to
make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the
opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences
w...
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VERSE 11 Some wondered why he did this. Perhaps they suggested that it
was out of a lack of love. Paul calls God as his witness that this was
not true....
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(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
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illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to
come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that
we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
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11._Is it because I love you not? _Those that we love, we treat with
greater familiarity. Lest the Corinthians, therefore, should take it
amiss, that he refused their liberality, while he allowed hims...
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In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a
godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false
teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
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WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT?.... Why did the apostle do this?
why did he take nothing, and resolve to take nothing of the
Corinthians, for preaching the Gospel to them? why did he determine,
tha...
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Ver. 11. _Because I lose you not?_] It should be a minister's care to
preserve in the hearts of his people an opinion of his love to them.
For if they...
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_As the truth of Christ is in me_ As sure as I am a true Christian,
and an apostle. The expression has the nature of an oath. See on
Romans 9:1. _No man shall stop me of this boasting_ For I will rece...
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BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? and therefore am unwilling to seem to be under
obligation to you?...
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Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false
teachers:...
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WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? GOD KNOWETH....
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If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a
little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who
inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
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5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and
consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be
lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
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Can you possibly interpret my not being chargeable to you, as
proceeding from a want of love in me to you? God knoweth the contrary....
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth....
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2 Corinthians 11:11 Why G1302 Because G3754 not G3756 love G25 (G5719)
you G5209 God G2316 knows G1492
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‘As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
glorying in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I love you not?
God knows.'
And ‘as the truth of Christ is in him'. That is what matt...
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PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS
(2 CORINTHIANS 11:1).
An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who
constituted the new grave threat to Paul's mini...
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2 Corinthians 11:11. WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? GOD KNOWETH....
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GOD KNOWETH
(ο θεος οιδεν). Whether they do or not. He knows that God
understands his motives....
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CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against
false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor
of Damascus.
CONCLUS...
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2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must
glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly
for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
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WHY DO I SAY THIS? When Paul refused to be paid by the Corinthian
church, the false apostles said it proved he did not love them! But
Paul does love them and affirms it by saying that _God knows I do!...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:9 Paul refused to accept
money from the Corinthians because he had to distinguish his ministry
from that of the false apostles. They labored in Corinth out of gr...
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CHAPTER 11
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4)
to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out
that they had bestowed no...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 11:7. OR.—Turning to another topic. OFFENCE.—Lit.
“_Sin_.” FREELY.—_I.e. “without charge_.” Cf. Philippians
4:12.
2 Corinthians 11:8
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AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING.
EXPOSITION
An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He
is not afraid of comparisons ...
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Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven.
Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian
church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they
so often did,...
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Do I refuse to receive anything of you, because I love you not? God
knoweth that is not the case....