Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 10:15
Having hope, now your faith is increased — So that you can the better spare us. To be enlarged by you abundantly — That is, enabled by you to go still further.
Having hope, now your faith is increased — So that you can the better spare us. To be enlarged by you abundantly — That is, enabled by you to go still further.
Verse 15. _NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT_ OUR _MEASURE_] We speak only of the work which God has done by us; for we have never attempted to enter into other men's labours, and we study to convert tho...
NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE - There is here probably an allusion to the false teachers at Corinth. They had come after Paul had been there, and had entered into his labors. When he had...
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....
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...
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...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
OF. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. OTHER MEN'S, Greek. _attotrios._ App-124. FAITH. Greek. _pistil._ App-150. ENLARGED. magnified. Greek. _megatuno._ See Acts 5:13. BY. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. ABUND...
_not boasting of things without our measure_ The Apostle now repeats what he has before said in 2 Corinthians 10:13, but directs his remarks more pointedly against the false teachers by adding - _in o...
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...
15, 16. ΟΥ̓Κ ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἌΜΕΤΡΑ ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΙ … ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἝΤΟΙΜΑ ΚΑΥΧΉΣΑΣΘΑΙ. A long and rather obscure sentence, which it is more simple to connect with 2 Corinthians 10:14 than with 2 Corinthians 10:13. There...
12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out. Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely, because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...
_SEEKING TO BE APPROVED OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15-18:_ Paul did not brag about the work others had done in the kingdom. He did not try to take credit for their work. His desire was that these brethre...
ΆΜΕΤΡΑ (G265) _n. pl. adv._ неумеренно (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:13). ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:8). άλλότρος
DISCOURSE: 2038 THE FAITHFUL MINISTER’S DESIRES 2 Corinthians 10:15. _Having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the Gospe...
NOT BOASTING, &C.— That is, "Not intermeddling, or assuming to myself an authority to meddle, or any honour for doing so." St. Paul here visibly taxes the false Apostle for coming into a church conver...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, Not bo...
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...
(_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...
PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
NOT BOASTING, etc.] RV 'not glorying beyond _our_ measure, _that is,_ in other men's labours; but having hope that as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto _f...
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...
NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE... — The words are not merely defensive. He presses home the charge of intrusion. They, not he, were finding ground for their boasts in other men’s labours....
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...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
οὐκ εἰς τὰ ἄμετρα κ. τ. λ.: _not glorying beyond our measure_ (the argument is resumed from 2 Corinthians 10:13), _that is, in other men's labours_. This he steadily avoided (_cf._ Romans 15:20); even...
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...
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...
VERSE 15 He did not have to build on other men's labors to find work. In fact, he could, and had to, confine his labors to them until they grew. Their lack of growth kept him from furthering the gospe...
Not boasting of things (m) without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,...
In these three following Chapter s, St. Paul, for the common good of those whom he had converted, and to obviate the prejudice raised by his adversaries against his person and preaching, is forced to...
(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...
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...
_CONCERNING THE COLLECTION_ ‘For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: not boasting o...
15._In the labors of others. _He now reproves more freely the false Apostles, who, while they had put forth their hand in the reaping of another man’s harvest, had the audacity at the same time to rev...
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...
NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE,.... The apostle here asserts what he had done before, 2 Corinthians 10:13 with a view to explain it, as he does, saying, THAT IS OF OTHER MEN'S LABOURS; wh...
Not boasting of things without _our_ measure, _that is_, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, Ver....
_We stretch not_, &c. In preaching at Corinth, we do not, like the false teacher, go out of our line, as _not reaching to you; but we are come_ even _as far as you_ By a gradual, regular process, havi...
ENLARGED; in respect to our field of labor. BY YOU; by your cooperation. ACCORDING TO OUR RULE; according to the field assigned us by God, which has lain without the field of other men's labors. An...
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, THAT IS, OF OTHER MEN'S LABORS, BUT HAVING HOPE, WHEN YOUR FAITH IS INCREASED, THAT WE SHALL BE ENLARGED BY YOU ACCORDING TO OUR RULE ABUNDANTLY,...
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...
ENLARGED BY YOU: Or, magnified in you...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...
So that although we have boasted of you, we have not boasted OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE; that is, of things that are not, or (as the apostle expounds himself) of things that were not done by him bu...
not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI The primacy of knowledge the apostle shows to those capable of reflection, in writing to those Greeks of Corinth, in the following terms: "But having hope, when...
2 Corinthians 10:15 not G3756 boasting G2744 (G5740) beyond G1519 measure G280 in G1722 mens G245 labors G2
‘For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not to you, for we came even as far as to you in the gospel of Christ, not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, bu...
2 Corinthians 10:15. NOT GLORYING... IN OTHER MEN'S LABOURS, BUT HAVING HOPE THAT, AS YOUR FAITH GROWETH, WE SHALL BE MAGNIFIED IN YOU... UNTO FURTHER ABUNDANCE ‘be encouraged by our success with you...
IN OTHER MEN'S LABOURS (εν αλλοτριοις κοποις). Αλλοτριος means belonging to another as in Luke 16:12. Paul founded the church in Corinth.AS YOUR FAITH GROWETH (αυξανομενης της πιστεως). Genitive...
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...
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...
SO WE DO NOT BOAST. Paul's work was to _lay foundations._ He did not intrude on the work of the other apostles. See Romans 15:20 and note. It may be that the false teachers accused Paul of intruding o...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15 LANDS BEYOND. Paul’s aim is to plant churches in areas where the gospel has never been proclaimed (see Romans 1
_Without our measure._ The provinces not assigned us by God. This is again a blow aimed at the false apostles, who were in the habit of boasting, groundlessly of the many regions they had visited and...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 10:13; Romans 15:20...
Be enlarged by you - according to our rule abundantly [ε ν υ μ ι ν μ ε γ α λ υ ν θ η ν α ι - ε ι ς π ε ρ ι σ σ ε ι α ν]. Paul means that, as the faith of the Corinthians increases, he hopes that his a...
Here the apostle tells the Corinthians, that he would not boast of other men's labours, nor pretend any title to those Christians at Corinth, nor any where else, whom others had converted, as the fals...