2 Corinthians 6 - Introduction
CHAP. 6. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAP. 6. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED... [ Continue Reading ]
ΣΥΝΕΡΓΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΚΑῚ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ. BUT WORKING _together_ (_with him_) WE INTREAT _also_. The reference is to 2 Corinthians 5:20 : ‘we besought you on Christ’s behalf to become reconciled to God; _but_ we do more; we intreat also.’ Συνεργοῦντες implies working _with_ some one, and with God or with... [ Continue Reading ]
1–10. S. Paul continues his personal explanations respecting his work. These personal explanations are specially prominent in 2 Corinthians 6:3-4, about which 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 give details as to the way in which his ministry was exercised. He can give an account of it which might well put his ad... [ Continue Reading ]
2. A parenthesis, showing why the Corinthians should _at once_ follow his exhortations. The nom. to ΛΈΗΕΙ is ὁ θεός (2 Corinthians 6:1) who gives the grace, and with whom the Apostle works. The quotation is from the LXX. of Isaiah 49:8. AT AN ACCEPTABLE TIME I HEARKENED TO _thee, and in_ a _day of s... [ Continue Reading ]
Ἡ ΔΙΑΚΟΝΊΑ (אBCKLP, Copt.) rather than ἡ διακονία ἡμῶν (DFG, Latt. Syrr.). 3. ΜΗΔΕΜΊΑΝ ἘΝ ΜΗΔΕΝῚ ΔΙΔΌΝΤΕΣ ΠΡΟΣΚΟΠΉΝ. Coordinate with συνεργοῦντες (2 Corinthians 6:1). Comp. ἐν μηδενὶ λειπόμενοι (James 1:4). Winer, p. 608. On the relation of πρόσκομμα to σκάνδαλον see Ellicott on 1 Corinthians 8:9. I... [ Continue Reading ]
ΣΥΝΙΣΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ (BP, some cursives) rather than συνιστάντες (אCDFG) or συνιστῶντες (א3D3KL). The evidence in 2 Corinthians 4:2 is helpful here. 4. ἈΛΛʼ ἘΝ ΠΑΝΤῚ ΣΥΝΙΣΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ὩΣ Θ. Δ. See critical note. _But in everything_ (2 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Corinthians 7:16; 2 Corinthians 9:8; 2 Corinthia... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΝ ΠΛΗΓΑΙ͂Σ, ἘΝ ΦΥΛΑΚΑΙ͂Σ, ἘΝ�. Another field in which the ὑπομονή is manifested. These are the troubles which are inflicted on him by men. The πληγαί refer to scourgings or beatings from Jews or Romans 11:23-25; Acts 16:23. We know of only one imprisonment of the Apostle previous to this letter, vi... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΝ ἉΓΝΌΤΗΤΙ. General purity of life and sincerity of purpose (2 Corinthians 11:3 and nowhere else in Biblical Greek): _in castitate_ (Vulgate) is too narrow. See Westcott on 1 John 3:3. ἘΝ ΓΝΏΣΕΙ. Knowledge of the spirit of the Gospel; 2 Corinthians 8:7; 2 Corinthians 11:6; 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1 Cor... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΝ ΛΌΓΩΙ�. In Ephesians 1:13; Colossians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:15 the Gospel is called ὁ λόγος τῆς�. The omission of the article here does not prove that the Gospel is not meant, as λόγῳ� (James 1:18), ποιηταὶ λόγου (James 4:11), λόγος ζωῆς (Philippians 2:16) show. But perhaps the sincerity of his uttera... [ Continue Reading ]
ΔΙᾺ ΔΌΞΗΣ ΚΑῚ�. _By_ GLORY _and dishonour_. The δόξα comes from God and His true servants, as when the Galatians treated him as an ἄγγελος θεοῦ (Galatians 4:14): the ἀτιμία (2 Corinthians 11:21; 1 Corinthians 11:14) comes from those who oppose both, as the Jews and heathen (Acts _passim_). Such δόξα... [ Continue Reading ]
ὩΣ�. This does not mean that he was known to some and not known to others; but that his opponents said that he was an insignificant teacher, about whose authority nothing was known, and yet, he was ‘_becoming_ well known’ to very many. Many were coming round to his side (2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corint... [ Continue Reading ]
10. Here it is very improbable that λυπούμενοι, πτωχοί, and μηδὲν ἔχοντες are charges made against him by his enemies, while ἀεὶ χαίροντες, πολλοὺς πλουτίζοντες, and πάντα κατέχοντες are facts. All are given as facts. He was constantly being pained by his failures, and by his converts going astray;... [ Continue Reading ]
Ἡ ΚΑΡΔΊΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν (CDFGKLP) rather than ἡ καρδία ὑμῶν (אB). 11. ΤῸ ΣΤΌΜΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν�. Not ‘is opened,’ but ‘is open, stands open.’ Comp. John 1:51. With his usual frankness, he tells the inmost workings of his heart. ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.’ He is referring to what precedes,... [ Continue Reading ]
11–13. Transition from the impassioned statement in 2 Corinthians 6:3-10 to the exhortations in 2 Corinthians 6:14 ff., which take up the exhortation in 2 Corinthians 6:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΣΤΕΝΟΧΩΡΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ ΔῈ ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΣΠΛΆΓΧΝΟΙΣ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. See on 2 Corinthians 4:8. If there is not τελεία� between them and him, the reason is, not that he has little room in his heart for them, but that they have no room in their affections for him. They were too full of prejudice and suspicion and unfounded r... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤῊΙΝ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤῊΝ�. These words have no regular construction. Apparently the adverbial τὸ αὐτό and ἀντιμισθία have coalesced by attraction. BUT AS THE SAME REQUITAL (Romans 1:27), _i.e._ as a requital in kind, a return of love for love: an adverbial accusative. The word is not found in the LXX. ὩΣ ΤΈΚ... [ Continue Reading ]
ΜῊ ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ ἙΤΕΡΟΖΥΓΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ� (2 Corinthians 4:4). BECOME _not_ INCONGRUOUSLY _yoked to unbelievers_. ‘Do not become heterogeneous yokefellows with heathen: they belong to one species, you to quite another. They will not work in your way; you must not work in theirs.’ The γινέσθε gently puts the error... [ Continue Reading ]
14–7:1. Warning against heathen modes of thought and life. The Corinthians are to keep themselves apart from such influence. There is here no unintelligible change of topic; and it is exaggeration to speak of “a remarkable dislocation of the argument” and “disconnexion with the context.” It is true... [ Continue Reading ]
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ (אBCP, Latt. Copt.) rather than Χριστῷ (DFGKL, Syrr.), and ΒΕΛΊΑΡ (אBCLP) rather than ΒΕΛΊΑΝ (DK, some cursives and _plurimi codices_ known to Jerome). 15. ΤΊΣ ΔῈ ΣΥΜΦΏΝΗΣΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ ΠΡῸΣ ΒΕΛΊΑΡ; _And what concord_ IS THERE OF _Christ with Belial?_ There can be no _harmony_ between the perf... [ Continue Reading ]
ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ … ἘΣΜΈΝ (אBDLP, Copt. Aeth.) rather than ὑμεῖς … ἐστέ (א3CD3FGK, Vulg. Arm. Syrr.). Comp. 2 Corinthians 7:12; 2 Corinthians 8:8; 2 Corinthians 8:19 for similar confusion between ἡμεῖς and ὑμεῖς. 16. ΤΊΣ ΔῈ ΣΥΝΚΑΤΆΘΕΣΙΑ ΝΑΩ͂Ι ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΜΕΤᾺ ΕἸΔΏΛΩΝ; The same construction as in the preceding questi... [ Continue Reading ]
ΔΙῸ ἘΞΈΛΘΑΤΕ. The Apostle draws the conclusion to which he pointed in 2 Corinthians 6:14. God’s people must be separated from the life of the heathen, at once and decisively (aor. imperat.). The quotation is made freely from memory, and is a mosaic of several passages; Isaiah 52:11-12; Ezekiel 20:34... [ Continue Reading ]
18. This again seems to be a mosaic of several passages; 2 Samuel 7:14; Isaiah 43:6; 2 Samuel 7:8 : _And I will be_ TO YOU _a Father, and ye shall be_ TO ME _sons and daughters_. For ἔσομαι εἰς = γενήσομαι comp. Ephesians 5:31; Hebrews 8:10 : but the εἰς may = ‘to serve as, for.’ This is probably a... [ Continue Reading ]