Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)
2 Corinthians 4:1-18
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)
THE BLINDED EYE (2 Corinthians 4:1-6)
CHAPTER IV. _St. Paul shows the integrity with which he had preached the_ _Gospel of Christ_, 1, 2. _And that, if it was unprofitable to any who had heard it, it_ _was because their unbelieving he...
THEREFORE - Διὰ τοῦτο Dia touto. On account of this. That is, because the light of the gospel is so clear; because it reveals so glorious truths, and all obscurity is taken away, and we are permitte...
5. THE CHARACTER OF THE TRUE MINISTRY. CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Gospel of the Glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:1)_ 2. The Treasure in Earthen Vessels; Weakness and Power. (2 Corinthians 4:7) 3. Resurrec...
In this paragraph the apostle recurs to the thought of 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 1:12; a ministry of such surpassing splendour demanded in himself and his comrades unflinch...
THEREFORE. On account of (Greek. _dia_. App-104. 2 Corinthians 4:2) this. SEEING WE HAVE. having. MINISTRY. Greek. _diakonia_ App-190. HAVE. Omit. RECEIVED MERCY. Compare 1 Corinthians 7:25. FAINT...
2 Corinthians 4:1-15. Entrusted with so glorious a mission, the Ministers of the Gospel shrink from neither danger nor difficulty 1. _Therefore_ The connection between this and what precedes is suffi...
ἘΓΚΑΚΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ (אABDFG) rather than ἐκκακοῦμεν (CD3KLP). Luke 18:1 ἐνκακεῖν is right; elsewhere (2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Galati
2 Corinthians 4:1-6. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED As between the first and second Chapter s, the division between the third and fourth is badly made. Chapter 3 should have continued to 2 Corinthians 4:6...
_BLINDED TO THE TRUTH 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1-4:_ Paul felt that God had been kind in entrusting him with the work of preaching the gospel. His concept was that what he was doing was a ministry. The ministr...
ΔΝΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G1223; G3778) из-за этого. Это либо ссылка на предыдущее: потому что евангелие — это благая весть о славе Господней, или на последующее: по причине, о которой говорится в следующем _прид._...
WE FAINT NOT;— This is to the same purpose with _we use great plainness of speech,_ in the 12th verse of the foregoing chapter, and signifies in both places the clear, plain, direct, and disinterested...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Machination (2 Corinthians 4:1-6) 4 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refu...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; The human vessel is frail, that God may have the glory; yet, though frail, faith and the hope of future glory sustai...
6 The covenant of the letter is the law of Moses which was engraven in stone, to symbolize its unyielding sternness. There is no reference to the letter of Scripture. It is the law that kills, just as...
AS WE HAVE RECEIVED MERCY] in his conversion from the blindness of Judaism....
1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God. 1, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim it bo...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 God in his *mercy has given us this work to do. As a result, we do not lose hope. V2 We do not do things in secret a...
IV. (1) THEREFORE SEEING WE HAVE THIS MINISTRY. — The ministry referred to is that of which such great things have just been said: the ministry of the new covenant, of the Spirit, of righteousness, of...
CHAPTER 11 THE GOSPEL DEFINED. 2 Corinthians 4:1 (R.V) IN these verses Paul resumes for the last time the line of thought on which he had set out at 2 Corinthians 3:4, and again at 2 Corint
HE DELIVERS WITH FRANKNESS HIS MESSAGE OF CHRIST THE TRUE LIGHT....
διὰ τοῦτο ἔχοντες κ. τ. λ.: _wherefore, having this Ministration, sc._, of the New Covenant, _even as we received mercy_ (_i.e._, “even as we were mercifully granted it,” a favourite thought with St....
GOD'S GLORY REFLECTED IN CHRIST 2 Corinthians 4:1 The servant of Christ must never forget that he once needed and obtained mercy. This will sustain him in many an hour when heart and flesh fail. His...
Continuing about the ministry, the apostle said, "We faint not," "we have renounced the hidden things of shame," "we preach... Christ Jesus as Lord." Hearing, some perish because "the god of this worl...
PAUL AND THE FALSE TEACHERS In 2 Corinthians 3:6, Paul had said he was a minister of the new covenant. Knowing that he had tried to destroy Christianity, Paul was ever thankful for God's mercy which a...
Therefore (1) seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we (a) faint not; (1) Now he plainly witnesses that both he and his associates (through the mercy of God) do their vocation and...
The apostle, having in the last chapter shewn the excellence of his ministry above that of the law, proceeds to inform them of his own labours, &c. in order to destroy the credit which the false teach...
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; (2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God dec...
CONTENTS This is a most beautiful, and interesting Chapter. The Apostle sets forth, the solemn Views he had of the Ministry, and his Earnestness to be found faithful, in the discharge of it. He speak...
1._Having this ministry. _He now returns to a commendation of himself personally, from which he had digressed into a general discussion, in reference to the dignity of the gospel. As, therefore, he ha...
Having received this ministry of righteousness and of the Spirit, the foundation of which was Christ glorified beheld with open face, he not only used great boldness of speech, but his zeal was not ab...
THEREFORE SEEING WE HAVE THIS MINISTRY,.... The apostle having largely insisted on the difference between the law and the Gospel, the ministration of the one and of the other, proceeds to give an acco...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; Ver. 1. _As we have received mercy_] Since we have so freely been called to the ministry of mere mercy, we show forth...
_Therefore, seeing we have this ministry_ Spoken of from 2Co 4:6-11 of the preceding chapter, with which this is closely connected; a ministry so superior to that wherewith Moses was intrusted; _as we...
AS WE HAVE RECEIVED MERCY; the apostle has special reference to the mercy of God in calling him from being a blasphemer of Christ to be his apostle, 1 Timothy 1:12-13. The glorious prospects which the...
THEREFORE, SEEING WE HAVE THIS MINISTRY, AS WE HAVE RECEIVED MERCY, WE FAINT NOT,...
THE GOSPEL-MESSAGE OF LIGHT AND LIFE. Paul uses frankness in delivering his message:...
Chapter s 4 and 5 now show some of the precious, practical results of this ministry, seen in those entrusted with it; for it is such a ministry itself that works powerfully in them to enable them to c...
1-7 The best of men would faint, if they did not receive mercy from God. And that mercy which has helped us out, and helped us on, hitherto, we may rely upon to help us even to the end. The apostles...
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1,2 Paul declareth his unwearied zeal and integrity in preaching the gospel, 2 CORINTHIANS 4:3 so that if any see not the truth of it, it must be owing to their...
[Having shown that the Christian ministry is superior to the Mosaic, Paul, in this section, enlarges upon the two antithetical phases of that ministry, showing that viewed carnally it leads to the sev...
Tertullian On Modesty peace to an incestuous fornicator, he should forthwith have proceeded to accumulate exhortations about turning away from impurities, about pruning away of blemishes, about exhort...
2 Corinthians 4:1 since G1223 G5124 have G2192 (G5723) this G5026 ministry G1248 as G2531 mercy G1653 ...
‘Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.' Having such a ministry which results in the unveiling of men and women (2 Corinthians 3:18) so that they can behol...
SUCH A MINISTRY AS HAS BEEN DEPICTED MAKES CLEAR THAT ITS MINISTERS ARE NOT CORRUPT BECAUSE IT IS CONDUCTED IN GOD'S GLORIOUS LIGHT AND REVEALS THE UNMATCHABLE GLORY OF GOD IN JESUS CHRIST EVEN THOUGH...
WE FAINT NOT (ουκ εγκακουμεν). Present active indicative of εγκακεω, late verb (εν, κακος) to behave badly in, to give in to evil, to lose courage. In Symmachus (LXX), Polybius, and papyri. It is t...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ Stern was the labour of the apostles, but they felt that their work was so all-important, so divi...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;_ It is a very high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry, and when the mini...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;--_ We are sometimes ready to faint, but we cast our fainting spirits into the arms of God, and our...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the wor...
CONTENTS: Truth taught, commended by the life. The preaching of the Lordship of Christ. The suffering of true ministers with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: A steadfast adherence t...
2 Corinthians 4:1. _Seeing we have this ministry,_ of grace and reconciliation to a guilty world; the ministry of righteousness, not of condemnation; the ministry of life, and not of death; we have li...
HAS GIVEN US THIS SERVICE. Since 2 Corinthians 2:17, Paul has been talking about his capacity for the service of the Spirit. Paul had a special service as an apostle, but every Christian is a servant...
_Therefore seeing we have received this ministry._ THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY Paul represents this I. As a ministry of light (2 Corinthians 4:4). 1. Cf. John 1:5. Nothing could be more different than t...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Paul explains why he does not become discouraged in his ministry, despite his many afflictions (2 Corinthians 4:1,...
_Therefore seeing we have this ministry._ The ministry of the New Testament, the excellency of which has been dwelt on in the preceding chapter. To this God in His mercy has called us, His unworthy Ap...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. From what was said in the last chapter of the glory and honour belonging to the office of a preacher of the Gospel, S. Paul proceeds to assert that he discharges...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ N.B. A _continuous outpour_ of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, _from_ 2 Corinthians 2:17 _to_ 2 Corinthians 6:10. 2
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 4:1. THIS MINISTRY.—Viz. that in 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:6; and more definitely expounded at the end of this long section, in...
EXPOSITION The glory of the gospel ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), which sustains the hearts of Christ's ministers among all weaknesses and trials (2 Corinthians 4:7), especially by the faith in things...
Therefore seeing we have this ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1), What ministry? Pointing people to Jesus Christ. as we have received mercy, we faint not; But [we] have renounced the hidden things of disho...
1 Corinthians 7:25; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Timothy 1:13; 2 Corinthians 3:12;...
As we have received mercy. Construe with we have this ministry. Having this ministry as a gift of divine mercy. Compare 1 Corinthians 7:25. Bengel says : "The mercy of God, by which the ministry is re...
Therefore having this ministry — Spoken of, 2 Corinthians 3:6. As we have received mercy — Have been mercifully supported in all our trials. We faint not — We desist not in any degree from our gloriou...
That is, seeing we have such. glorious ministry far more excelling than that of Moses, mentioned in the conclusion of the foregoing chapter, as we have received mercy or special favours from God in co...