1:4 encourages (a-2) _ Parakaleo_ , as Matthew 2:18 ; Matthew 5:4 ; Acts 20:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:7 . I do not say 'comfort,' as that is rather conveyed in _ paramutheomai_ , so translated in 1 Thessalonians 2:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:14 ; 'console,' John 11:19 ,... [ Continue Reading ]
12:2 know (c-2) Conscious knowledge; and so all through. to (d-32) _ Heos_ , 'as far as.' see Luke 24:50 ; Acts 11:22 .... [ Continue Reading ]
12:4 said (e-12) _ Rhema_ , 'the saying' and thence 'the things said.' It was not merely like heathen mysteries, dreadful forms of speech, but the communications were of things not suited to this lower world and our mortal condition.... [ Continue Reading ]
12:7 buffet (f-32) As Matthew 26:67... [ Continue Reading ]
12:9 dwell (g-34) Or 'power of Christ may tabernacle -- have its dwelling-place -- on me.'... [ Continue Reading ]
12:16 guile. (a-17) The apostle is not saying that he did this, but is answering a charge that he had kept up appearances by taking nothing himself, but knew how to indemnify himself by using Titus in order to receive from them. The charge was false, as he proceeds to show.... [ Continue Reading ]
12:19 supposing (b-5) Or 'Ye have of old supposed.'... [ Continue Reading ]
12:21 to (c-8) Or 'amongst you.'... [ Continue Reading ]