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Verse 16. _TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE_ REGIONS _BEYOND YOU_] He
probably refers to those parts of the _Morea_, such as _Sparta_, c.,
that lay _southward_ of them and to _Italy_, which lay on the _wes...
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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU - What regions are
referred to here can be only a matter of conjecture. It may be that he
wished to preach in other parts of Greece, and that he designed...
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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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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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PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
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PREACH THE GOSPEL Greek. _euangetizo._ App-121.
IN. unto. Greek. _eis,_ as above.
BEYOND. Greek. _huperekeina._ Only here.
ANOTHER MAN'S. Greek. _allotrios,_ as in 2 Corinthians 10:15.
LINE. Same a...
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_to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you_ i.e. the rest of
Greece, Italy and Spain. Cf. Romans 15:19; Romans 15:24; Romans 15:28.
St Paul here attributes his further progress in the Gospel not...
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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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15, 16. ΟΥ̓Κ ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἌΜΕΤΡΑ ΚΑΥΧΏΜΕΝΟΙ …
ΕἸΣ ΤᾺ ἝΤΟΙΜΑ ΚΑΥΧΉΣΑΣΘΑΙ. A long and rather
obscure sentence, which it is more simple to connect with 2
Corinthians 10:14 than with 2 Corinthians 10:13. There...
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12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out.
Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely,
because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...
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_SEEKING TO BE APPROVED OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15-18:_ Paul did not
brag about the work others had done in the kingdom. He did not try to
take credit for their work. His desire was that these brethre...
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ΎΠΕΡΈΚΕΙ ΝΑ (G5238) перед; то есть "земли,
которые лежат перед вами" (BAGD; RG, 297).
ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΣΑΣΘΑΙ _aor. med. (dep.) inf. от_
ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΩ (G2097) провозглашать благую
весть, проповедовать евангелие,...
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DISCOURSE: 2038
THE FAITHFUL MINISTER’S DESIRES
2 Corinthians 10:15. _Having hope, when your faith is increased, that
we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to
preach the Gospe...
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NOT BOASTING, &C.— That is, "Not intermeddling, or assuming to
myself an authority to meddle, or any honour for doing so." St. Paul
here visibly taxes the false Apostle for coming into a church
conver...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 3
Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18)
12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those
who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one
an...
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_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_
The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted
Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but
according to the measure of the province which God app...
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To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in
another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
TO - i:e., so as to preach ... beyond you (and) not to boast, etc.
IN ANOT...
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11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle
makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as
severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
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PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no
boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes
your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
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THE _regions_ BEYOND YOU] These Chapter s were written in Ephesus;
hence this would refer to Rome, and perhaps Spain. Rome was already in
his mind (Acts 19:21), and soon after this date he wrote of go...
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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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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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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU. — It is clear, from
Romans 15:19, that he is thinking (1) of Western Greece, (2) of Rome,
(3, and chiefly) of Spain. There, apparently, he could hope to...
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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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DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS
MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
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εἰς τὰ ὑπερέκεινα κ. τ. λ.: _so as to preach the
Gospel in the regions beyond you, i.e._ (if we are to press the idea
of direction in ὑπερέκεινα), the western parts of Greece,
Rome and Spain, which we...
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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 16 Paul intended to go on and establish churches in other lands
needing the gospel when he finished at Corinth. he did not need to
seize someone else's work as his opponents had done....
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To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast
in (n) another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
(n) In countries which other men have prepared and cultivated with the...
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The words, measure, rule, &c. signify through the whole of this
chapter a share, or an allotment of any place to cultivate. St. Paul
never gloried like the persons whom he is here blaming, that he
ent...
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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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_CONCERNING THE COLLECTION_
‘For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
preaching the gospel of Christ: not boasting o...
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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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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU,.... Here the apostle
clearly expresses what he hoped for, and explains what he meant by
being enlarged according to rule; namely, that he should be at l...
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To preach the gospel in the _regions_ beyond you, _and_ not to boast
in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
Ver. 16. _In the regions beyond you_] This was a piece of the
braggadocio...
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_We stretch not_, &c. In preaching at Corinth, we do not, like the
false teacher, go out of our line, as _not reaching to you; but we are
come_ even _as far as you_ By a gradual, regular process, havi...
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TO PREACH; that is, so as to preach, as the result of this
enlargement.
BEYOND YOU; to the heathen farther west, who had never heard the
gospel.
IN ANOTHER MAN'S LINE; in another man's field of labo...
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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU, AND NOT TO BOAST IN
ANOTHER MAN'S LINE OF THINGS MADE READY TO OUR HAND....
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Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
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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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LINE:
Or, rule...
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12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this
would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good
rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...
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TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU; the apostle here
expoundeth what he meaneth by the term magnified, or _enlarged, _ in
the preceding verse, viz. to have a door opened to preach the gosp...
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so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to
glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
[Though God gave us so vast a bishopric, we indeed filled so mu...
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‘For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not to
you, for we came even as far as to you in the gospel of Christ, not
glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, bu...
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EVEN UNTO THE PARTS BEYOND YOU
(εις τα υπερεκεινα υμων). Compound adverb
(υπερ, εκεινα, beyond those places) used as preposition.
Found only here and in ecclesiastical writers.THINGS READY TO OUR H...
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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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THEN WE. (1) It was the special mission of the apostles to proclaim
the Good News in areas where it had not yet gone; (2) They were not to
neglect any country, but to proceed from country to country....
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to
reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper
standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his
ministry...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15 LANDS BEYOND. Paul’s aim
is to plant churches in areas where the gospel has never been
proclaimed (see Romans 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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_Not to boast in another man's line_. I do not meddle with the bounds,
the provinces, and districts measured out and assigned, or occupied by
other Apostles, so as to enter into things got ready by ot...
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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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2 Corinthians 10:13; Romans 15:24...
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In another man's line [ε ν α λ λ ο τ ρ ι ω κ α ν ο ν
ι]. Line is the word previously rendered rule. He will not boast
within the line drawn for another; in another's field of activity. 155...
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In the regions beyond you — To the west and south, where the gospel
had not yet been preached....