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Verse 2 Corinthians 10:10. _FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY_, ARE _WEIGHTY
AND POWERFUL_] He boasts of high powers, and that he can do great
things. See on 2 Corinthians 10:1.
_BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE_ IS...
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FOR HIS LETTERS - The letters which he has sent to the church when
absent. Reference is had here probably to the First Epistle to the
Corinthians. They might also have seen some of Paul’s other
epistl...
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III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13
1. The Vindication of His Authority
CHAPTER 10
The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had
received from the Lord....
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PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM
AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of
allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
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PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
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Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that
he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because,
just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
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WEIGHTY. Greek. _barus._ See Acts 20:29.
POWERFUL. Greek. _ischuros._ Compare App-172.
PRESENCE. Greek. _parousia._ See Matthew 24:3.
WEAK. As 1 Corinthians 1:27....
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_his bodily presence is weak_ The bodily weakness of the Apostle seems
clearly indicated by many passages in Scripture. We may perhaps gather
from Acts 14:12 (though this is doubtful) that he was of l...
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Caution to those who judge by outward appearance
7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words
here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am
present_in 2 Corinthia...
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ΦΗΣΊΝ (אDFGKLP, d) rather than φασίν (B, Latt. Syrr.).
10. ΦΗΣΊΝ. See critical note. It is more probable that the
singular was changed to the plural, because this sneer was uttered by
more than one pe...
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_PAUL REASONED WITH THE CORINTHIANS 2 CORINTHIANS 10:7-11:_ Paul's
critics were saying that you could just see that they belonged to
Christ. He wanted it understood that he belonged to Christ just as...
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ΌΤΙ (G3754) эквивалент границ цитаты,
вводит прямую речь,
ΦΗΣΊΝ _praes. ind. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΦΗΜΊ (G5346)
говорить; то есть "кое-кто говорит".
Возможно, Павел цитирует слова
конкретного челове...
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HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, &C.— Chrysostome, Nicephorus, and
Lucian, relate of St. Paul, that his stature was low, his body
crooked, and his head bald; which seem to be the infirmities here
referred...
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_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_
A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority
Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your
face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Sanctioned (2 Corinthians 10:7-11)
7 Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is
Christ'S, let him remind himself that as he is Christ'S, so ar...
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For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
LETTERS - therefore there had been already more letters (plural) of
Paul received...
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5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure
motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or
from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
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(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY
As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of
the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2
Corinthi...
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PARAPHRASE. 'You are too much influenced by appearances. My opponents
say that I do not act as an Apostle of Christ, do they? Be sure that I
am just as devoted a servant of Christ as any who assert th...
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_His_ LETTERS]. They had at this date received at least two from St.
Paul, (1) that mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:9, and (2) our First
Epistle. _His_ BODILY PRESENCE _is_ WEAK] i.e. his action is feebl...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 10
V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of
Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
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FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL. — Allusive
references to what had been said of him at Corinth have already
appeared frequently. Here, for the first time, we have the very words
qu...
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CHAPTER 23
COMPARISONS.
2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V)
THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but
the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion
of αυτος ε...
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ὅτι αἱ ἐπιστολαὶ μὲν, φασίν κ. τ. λ.:
_for “his letters” they say “are weighty and powerful but,”_
etc. The reading is doubtful (see crit. note); if we follow the rec.
text φησίν = “one says” or “he s...
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DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS
MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
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ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
2 Corinthians 10:8
There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a
single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God.
Weak a...
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Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer
vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in
mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
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VERSE 10 Some falsely accused him of being powerful in his writing,
but weak when present....
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For [his] letters, say (g) they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his]
bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.
(g) He notes out those who were the cause of these words....
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Who in presence indeed am lowly. [1] Literally, humble, (see Luke i.
ver. 48.) that is, of a mean aspect, as to exterior appearances, and
my speech contemptible, without the ornaments of human eloquen...
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(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man
trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this
again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For
t...
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2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the
Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong
contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
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The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his
connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship,
which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on
h...
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FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL,.... These words
contain the reason why he did not choose to say any more of his
authority as an apostle to punish offenders, that he might give no...
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For _his_ letters, say they, _are_ weighty and powerful; but _his_
bodily presence _is_ weak, and _his_ speech contemptible.
Ver. 10. _Weighty and powerful_] As often as I read Paul's Epistles,
_Non...
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_For though I should boast somewhat more_ Than I do, or they can do;
_of our_ apostolical _authority, which the Lord hath given us for
edification_ To bring sinners to repentance and faith in Christ,...
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SAY THEY; his opposers....
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FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL, BUT HIS BODILY
PRESENCE IS WEAK AND HIS SPEECH CONTEMPTIBLE....
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Paul's authority is powerful:...
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Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at
Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to
earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
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7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of
some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that
none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved...
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There are some amongst you that tell you, that indeed (when absent) I
write severely, and with authority; but when I am there with you,
neither my behaviour, nor my speech, speaks any such authority....
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2 Corinthians 10:10 For G3754 letters G1992 G3303 say G5346 (G5748)
weighty G926 and G2532 powerful G2478
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‘For his letters, they say, are weighty and strong, but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech of no account.'
Using letters to exert his authority would indeed only serve to
justify the words o...
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2 Corinthians 10:10. FOR, HIS LETTERS, THEY SAY, ARE WEIGHTY AND
STRONG, BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, AND HIS SPEECH OF NO ACCOUNT.
That the weakness here ascribed to his “bodily presence” refers...
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THEY SAY
(φασιν). Reading of B old Latin Vulgate, but Westcott and Hort
prefer φησιν (says one, the leader). This charge Paul quotes
directly.WEIGHTY AND STRONG
(βαρεια κα ισχυρα). These adjectiv...
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CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to
Corinthians as brethren in Christ.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own
inf...
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2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being
absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy
insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of
Jer...
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SOMEONE WILL SAY. This is what his opponents were saying. Tradition
makes Paul small, bald, and with a big nose. He did not make a strong
impression in person. The false teachers used this fact to try...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 Paul’s Appeal to the
Rebellious Minority in Corinth. In the third major section of his
letter, Paul directly appeals to those who are still rejecting his
gospe...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:9 ABSENT... PRESENT. See note
on v. 1.
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CHAPTER 10
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship
against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and
despicable, and accused him o...
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_For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful._ My detractors,
the false apostles, say that my letters are hard and bitter, severe
and threatening, but my appearance is mean, contemptible, and...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable
that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this,
and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse
1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of
the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am]
bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1):
This is one of the charges that...
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1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1
Corinthians 2:3;...
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They say [φ α σ ι ν]. The correct reading is fhsi says he. The
Revisers retain they say, but read fhsi he says in their text. The
reference is to some well - known opponent. Compare one, any one in
ch...
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His bodily presence is weak — His stature, says St. Chrysostom, was
low, his body crooked, and his head bald....