But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. I call the true God to witness, who is a faithful and true witness, that in teaching you I did not deceive you, and, therefore, that it was not my intention to fail you when I promised to come to you.
This teaches the preacher to beware of lightness and fickleness of life, lest the people infer from it that the truth which he preaches is equally unfixed and uncertain.
Verse 18. _BUT_ AS _GOD_ IS _TRUE_] Setting the God of truth before my eyes, I could not act in this way: and as sure as he is true, so surely were my purposes sincere; and it was only my uncertainty...
BUT AS GOD IS TRUE - Tyndale renders this in accordance more literally with the Greek, “God is faithful; for our preaching unto you was not yea and nay.” The phrase seems to have the form of an oath,...
2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had whe...
But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, returning through Corinth from Macedonia, and taking from...
It was with this confidence that I previously planned to visit you, that I might bring you pleasure for the second time, and so go on to Macedonia by way of you, and be sped by you on my way to Judaea...
COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...
TRUE. faithful. Greek. _pistos_ App-150. WORD. Greek. _logos._ App-121. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:18. TOWARD. unto. Greek. _pros,_ as in verses: 2Co 1:15, 2 Corinthians 1:16;...
_But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay_ There was no more infirmity of purpose in the Apostle's preaching than there is untruth, or rather, _unfaithfulness_in God. -Word" here me...
St Paul's reason for putting off his coming 15. _And in this confidence_ It was the conviction of this community of interest which made St Paul desire to visit Corinth. It was (see 2 Corinthians 1:23...
15–24. The rest of this chapter and part of the next are taken up with the Apostle’s defence of himself against a charge of ‘lightness’ (ἐλαφρία), _i.e._ of not caring for the Corinthians or for his e...
ἜΣΤΙΝ (אABCD, Latt.) rather than ἐγένετο (א3D3KL). 18. ΠΙΣΤῸΣ ΔῈ Ὁ ΘΕΌΣ. _But_ (whatever you may think of me) _God is_ FAITHFUL, IN THAT _our word toward you_ IS _not yea and nay_. Comp. 1 Corinthians...
_ PAUL'S CHANGE OF PLANS 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12-18:_ Paul could rejoice because he had a clear conscience. He lived a simple, honest life with godly sincerity. His desire in all things was to be controlle...
ΠΙΣΤΌΣ (G4103) верный, достойный доверия. Это определение Бога как достойного доверия, или соблюдающего завет, гарантирующего выполнение Своих обещаний. Это может быть игрой слов, основанной на_евр._...
YEA, YEA, AND NAY, NAY?— The sense of these verses is, "I did not change my design through levity, nor did I purpose first one thing and then the contrary, as selfish views might determine me, 2 Corin...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Acrimony (2 Corinthians 1:12-24) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Explanation of His Deferred Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:15-24. And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 and by yo...
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. He adds this lest they might think his DOCTRINE was changeable like his purposes (the change in which he admitted in ; while denying tha...
1 Timothy is associated with Paul in this introduction, as Sosthenes is in the former epistle, yet it is evident that Paul himself wrote both epistles, for he continually refers to himself in them, an...
YEA AND NAY] i.e. the use of words with a double meaning....
PARAPHRASE. 'When you find me now writing from Macedonia before you have had a visit at all, you may think me changeable and capricious. (18) But I assure you solemnly I am not easily turned from my p...
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...
AS GOD IS TRUE. — Literally, _as God is faithful._ The words were one of St. Paul’s usual formulæ of assertion. (Comp. 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:3.) In other ins
CHAPTER 3 THE CHURCH'S ONE FOUNDATION. 2 Corinthians 1:15 (R.V) THE emphatic words in the first sentence are "in this confidence." All the Apostle's plans for visiting Corinth, both in general and i...
πιστὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι κ. τ. λ.: _but as God is faithful, our word, etc._ For the construction, _cf._ the similar forms of asseveration ζῇ κύριος ὅτι, “as the Lord liveth” (1 Samuel 20:3; 2 Samuel 2:27)...
HIS CHANGE OF PLAN WAS NOT DUE TO FICKLENESS. καὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πεποιθήσει ἐβουλόμην κ. τ. λ.: _and in this confidence_ (_sc._, that they would acknowledge his sincerity) _I was minded to come before_ (_sc...
SINCERE LIKE HIS MASTER 2 Corinthians 1:12 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16. As we pass out of this life, and stand in the revealing dawn of...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...
A CHANGE IN PLANS Since they had mutual pride and respect for one another, Paul had confidently planned to visit them on the way to and from Macedonia, but had changed plans to give them time to corre...
(10) But [as] God [is] (r) true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. (10) He calls God as witness and as judge of his constancy in preaching and teaching one self same Gospel. (r) True, and of...
But God is faithful: The sense seems to be, as God is faithful, or I appeal to God, who is faithful, that in what I have preached to you, there is not yes and no; my doctrine concerning the faith in J...
(15) And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; (16) And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you t...
18._God is faithful. _By the term _word _he means doctrine, as is manifest from the reason that he adds, when he says, that the _Son of God, who is preached by him, is not variable, etc. _As to his be...
The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...
BUT AS GOD IS TRUE,.... It seems that the false apostles had insinuated, that as the apostle had not kept his word in coming to them as he had promised, that he was not to be depended upon in his mini...
But _as_ God _is_ true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. Ver. 18. _Our word toward you, &c._] God's children are all such as will not lie, say and unsay, blow hot and cold with a blast, Isaia...
_When I therefore was thus minded_ Having, therefore, purposed this; _did I use lightness_ Did I lightly change my purpose? or, _the things that I purpose_ in general; _do I purpose according to the f...
OUR WORD; or, as the margin, our preaching; for the apostle adduces the steadfastness and consistency of his preaching as the great proof of his general steadfastness. WAS NOT YEA AND NAY; was not now...
BUT AS GOD IS TRUE, OUR WORD TOWARD YOU WAS NOT YEA AND NAY....
No fickleness can be charged to the apostle:...
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
WORD: Or, preaching...
15-24 The apostle clears himself from the charge of levity and inconstancy, in not coming to Corinth. Good men should be careful to keep the reputation of sincerity and constancy; they should not res...
AS GOD IS TRUE to his promises, so he hath taught me to be true to mine. Some make these words not to be merely declarative of the truth of God, but a kind of an oath, or calling the God of truth to w...
But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay....
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‘But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him...
2 Corinthians 1:18. BUT AS GOD IS TRUE a solemn asseveration, having the force of an appeal to God, or an oath, OUR WORD TOWARD YOU IS NOT YEA AND NAY ‘the word of one not to be depended on.' No wonde...
IS NOT YEA AND NAY (ουκ εστιν να κα ου). He is not a Yes and No man, saying Yes and meaning or acting No. Paul calls God to witness on this point....
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleshi...
CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...
2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...
AS GOD IS TRUE. "My change of plans was not being fickle or from selfish motives. It was God's will!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 1:18 Paul can affirm that his WORD... WAS NOT YES AND NO, BUT IN HIM (Christ) IT IS ALWAYS YES because his change of plan was within God’s will....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:12. REJOICING.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically...
Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...
1 John 5:20; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31; John 7:28;...
As God is true [π ι σ τ ο ς ο θ ε ο ς]. Not to be taken as a formula of swearing. He means that God will answer for him against the charge of fickleness by the power and blessing (benefit) which will...
Our word to you — The whole tenor of our doctrine. Hath not been yea and nay — Wavering and uncertain....
By the WORD here, some understand St. Paul's promise to come to Corinth, that he did very seriously intend to come unto them; as if he had said, "As God is true to his promise, so has he taught me to...