Tertullian On Modesty
But if ye shall have forgiven any, so (do) I; for I, too, if I have forgiven ought, have forgiven in the person of Christ, lest we be overreached by Satan, since we are not ignorant of his injections."[126]
Verse 2 Corinthians 2:5. _BUT, IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF_] Here he seems to refer particularly to the cause of the incestuous person. _GRIEVED ME, BUT IN PART_] I cannot help thinking that the εκ μερ...
IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF - There is doubtless here an allusion to the incestuous person. But it is very delicately done. He does not mention him by name. There is not anywhere an allusion to his name;...
3. HIS DEEP EXERCISE CONCERNING THEM. YET OVERCOMING. CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Burden of his Soul. (2 Corinthians 2:1 .)_ 2. Concerning the Brother who had been Disciplined. (2 Corinthians 2:5 .) 3. Over...
Someone in the congregation at Corinth who had done wrong is now to be forgiven. There are still some scholars who think that the person here referred to is the same as the wrong-doer of 1 Corinthians...
If anyone has caused grief, it is not I whom he has grieved, but to some extent--not to overstress the situation--all of you. To such a man the punishment that has been imposed by the majority is suff...
WHEN A SAINT REBUKES (2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4)...
ANY. Greek. tie. App-123. IN PART, Greek. _apo merous_. The grief has come from. part of you who have been led away. OVERCHARGE. lay. burden, or press heavily, upon. Greek. _epibareo_. Only here, 1T...
_he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all_ According to the A. V. the meaning is that the Apostle, anxious not to lay too heavy a charge at the door of the Corinthian Chu...
ΕἸ ΔΈ ΤΙΣ ΛΕΛΎΠΗΚΕΝ, ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΜῈ ΛΕΛΎΠΗΚΕΝ. _But if any hath caused_ SORROW, _he hath caused_ SORROW, _not to me_. The repetition of λύπη and λυπέω must be preserved in translation here, as that of θλίψι...
5–11. Having vindicated himself with regard to the charge of levity (2 Corinthians 1:15 to 2 Corinthians 2:4), he now goes on to vindicate his treatment of the grievous offender. It used to be assumed...
_LEST SATAN GET AN ADVANTAGE 2 CORINTHIANS 2:5-11:_ Paul realized that he was not the only one that had been made to feel bad by the fornicator in the church. Here Paul does not mention specifically t...
_GOD COMFORTS HIS PEOPLE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:1-6:_ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and his co-worker Timothy joined together in sending this epistle. They wrote to God's church in Corinth and to all of...
ΕΊ (G1487) если; вводит _conj._ 1 типа, предполагающее, что условие истинно, ΛΕΛΎΠΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΥΠΈΩ (G3076) огорчать (_см._ 2 Corinthians 2:2). _Perf._ означает, что боль продолжает ощу...
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF, &C.— St. Paul being satisfied with the Corinthians for their ready compliance with his orders in his former letter to punish the fornicator, intercedes to have him restor...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Discord (2 Corinthians 2:1-11) 2 For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. 2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The One Who Caused Sorrow Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 2:5-11. But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all...
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 t...
21 The operation of God's Spirit is here seen under three distinct figures: the anointing, the seal, and the earnest. Prophets and priests and kings were anointed for their office. They were anointed...
_(B) 2:8-13. THE OBJECT AND RESULTS OF THE SEVERE LETTER_ The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter he wrote before. He then speaks of one man who has cau...
ANY] A definite person is meant, but now that punishment has brought him to repentance the Apostle merely hints at him. The same person is indicated in 2 Corinthians 7:12, where see note....
PARAPHRASE. 'Now with regard to the person who has been the occasion of this grief, he has grieved not me only, but to some extent (not to be too harsh) the Church. (6) And the sentence pronounced by...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 CH1V23 God is my witness. I did not return to Corinth in order to save you from a difficult situation. V24 We are not t...
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF. — The man who had been the chief cause of his sorrow is now prominent in his thoughts. He will not name him. He is, as in 1 Corinthians 5:1, and here in 2 Corinthians 2:7...
CHAPTER 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 2:1 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends himself from the charge of levity and untrustworthiness by app...
CHAPTER 6 CHURCH DISCIPLINE. 2 Corinthians 2:5 (R.V) IN verses 5-11 2 Corinthians 2:5 of this Epistle, St. Paul said a great deal about sorrow, the sorrow he felt on the one hand, and the sorrow he...
εἰ δέ τις λελύπηκεν κ. τ. λ.: _but if any one, sc._, the incestuous person of 1 Corinthians 5:1, his name being suppressed with a rare delicacy of feeling, _hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow,...
THE OFFENDER HAS BEEN SUFFICIENTLY PUNISHED: THE APOSTLE ACQUIESCES IN THEIR REMISSION OF THE PENALTY OF 1 Corinthians 5:1-5....
TENDER-HEARTED AND FORGIVING 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 2:1 In these opening words Paul evidently refers to the sin mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:1. His judgment had been strong
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with many tears." Referring thus to his first letter, Paul...
DISCIPLINE THAT WORKED Paul wrote his first letter to the church in Corinth in an effort to get them to change. Specifically, he was concerned that they were tolerating sin. He directed them to withdr...
(1) But if any have caused grief, he hath not (c) grieved me, but (d) in part: that I may not (e) overcharge you all. (1) He passes to another part of this epistle: which nonetheless is put among the...
And if any one (he means the same incestuous man) hath caused grief, or caused me to grieve, he hath not grieved me, that is, not me only, but all the virtuous Christians at Corinth: but in part, that...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? (3) And...
5._But if any one. _Here is a _third _reason with the view of alleviating the offense — that he had grief in common with them, and that the occasion of it came from another quarter. “We have,” says he...
But had there been any lightness in his decisions, since, as he now informed them, he had intended to visit them on his way to Macedonia (where he was at the moment of writing this letter), and then a...
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF,.... The incestuous person is here manifestly designed, though he is not named, who had been the cause and occasion of much grief and sorrow, both to himself and others; f...
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Ver. 5. _Have caused grief_] Wicked livers are Hazaels to the godly, and draw many sighs and tear...
_For out of much affliction and anguish of heart_ The word συνοχης, here rendered _anguish_, “denotes the pain which a person feels, who is pressed on every side, without any possibility of disengagin...
HE; the person referred to in 1 Corinthians 5:1. BUT IN PART; he had not grieved Paul only, but the sound part of the church also. NOT OVERCHARGE YOU ALL; not speak as if all were guilty, or equally...
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF, HE HATH NOT GRIEVED ME, BUT IN PART, THAT I MAY NOT OVERCHARGE YOU ALL....
The case of the notorious sinner:...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reason delayed his visit. For his First Epistle was suc...
5-11 The apostle desires them to receive the person who had done wrong, again into their communion; for he was aware of his fault, and much afflicted under his punishment. Even sorrow for sin should...
The particle _if_ doth not here signify any doubting or uncertainty (for the incestuous person, of whom the apostle here, and in the following verses, speaks, had certainly caused grief both to the ap...
But if any [thus delicately does the apostle introduce this sinner] _hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all_. [As I have said, I di...
2 Corinthians 2:5 But G1161 anyone G1536 grief G3076 (G5758) has G3076 not G3756 grieved G3076 (G5758) me...
‘But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in some measure (so that I do not press the case too heavily) to you all.' Indeed the reason that he dealt with the offender so stro...
2 Corinthians 2:5. BUT IF ANY HATH CAUSED SORROW referring delicately and indirectly to the offender, HE HATH CAUSED SORROW, NOT TO ME, BUT IN PART (that I press not too heavily) to you all. This is s...
IF ANY (ε τις). Scholars disagree whether Paul refers to 1 Corinthians 5:1, where he also employs τισ, τοιουτος, and Σατανας as here, or to the ringleader of the opposition to him. Either view is p...
CONTENTS: Forgiving those who have fallen into sin. The ministry of the Christian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus, an erring brother, Satan. CONCLUSION: When a brother is truly penitent for hi...
2 Corinthians 2:1. _But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness;_ but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The offender, a man no doubt much known in the city, had la...
NOW. This is probably not the incestuous man, since this _anyone_ seems to have attacked Paul's work as an apostle, in an insulting way! In doing this, the _anyone_ has insulted the entire messianic c...
_But if any have caused grief _ THE AIM OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE is in the last resort the restoration of the fallen. The Church has, of course, an interest of its own to guard i it is bound to protest...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 2:5 The majority in Corinth had expressed their repentance by punishing the leader of the rebellion against Paul. Paul now calls them to follow his own Christlike e...
_He hath not grieved me._ The fornicator did not grieve me only. _But in part._ He grieved, says Anselm, many other good men as well as me; those, viz., who banished from their society with ignominy...
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares that he had not come to them through fear of causing sadness to himself and to them. II. He exhorts them (ver. 6) to re-admit the fornicator, on his...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_N.B_.—_The paragraph really begins at_ 2 Corinthians 1:23.) 2 Corinthians 1:1. DETERMINED.—As in 1 Corinthians 2:2. FOR MYSELF.—So R.V., meaning, “For m
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus (2 Corinthians 2:1). Their treatment of the incestuous offender (2 Corinthians 2:5). His thankfulness at the news whi...
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness (2 Corinthians 2:1). "I wrote a heavy letter to you, but I was determined that I wasn't going to come again in heavi...
1 Corinthians 5:12; 1 Corinthians 5:13; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Galatians 4:12;...
Any. Referring to the incestuous person. Not to me. Not that Paul did not grieve over the offender; but he desires to emphasize the fact that the injury caused by the sin was not to him personally, b...
He hath grieved me but in part — Who still rejoice over the greater part of you. Otherwise I might burden you all....
As if the apostle had said, This incestuous person, who hath caused so much grief to me by his sin, has caused no little grief to you also, to the sounder part of you, even to all, but those who were...