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Verse 1 Corinthians 2:3. _I WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS_] It is very
likely that St. Paul had not only something in his _speech_ very
unfavourable to a ready and powerful elocution, but also some
infirm...
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AND I WAS WITH YOU - Paul continued there at least a year and six
months. Acts 18:11.
IN WEAKNESS - In conscious feebleness; diffident of my own powers, and
not trusting to my own strength.
AND IN FE...
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CHAPTER 2
_ 1. The Apostle's Preaching. (1 Corinthians 2:1)._
2. The Revelation of the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:6).
3. The Helplessness and Ignorance of the Natural Man. (1 Corin
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1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5. THE CROSS, FOLLY TO THE
WORLD, IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD. Paul now explains and justifies
1 Corinthians 1:17_ b_, which to Greek readers must have soun
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THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
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So, brothers, when I came to you, I did not come announcing God's
secret to you with any outstanding gifts of rhetoric or wisdom, for it
was my deliberate decision to know nothing among you except Jes...
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TREMBLING. Greek. _tromos._ Elsewhere, Mark 16:8 (literally
trembling... seized them). 2 Corinthians 7:15.Ephesians
6:5.Philippians 1:2
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_And I was with you in weakness_ No personal advantages assisted his
preaching: no eloquence, save that of deep conviction; no
self-confidence; nothing but self-mistrust, anxiety, the deepest sense
of...
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ΠΡῸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ has been taken by some commentators as
equivalent to _arrived among you_. But as De Wette points out, 1
Corinthians 16:10 decides the point in favour of the rendering in A.V.
There is in ea...
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1 Corinthians 2:1-16. THE WISDOM OF THE GOSPEL DISCERNIBLE BY THE
SPIRITUAL FACULTIES ALONE
The Apostle now begins to justify his preaching. It was not that of
one skilled in the fashionable argumenta...
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_JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1-5:_ When Paul
preached the gospel at Corinth he did not use big words or try to
sound wise. He spoke to them about salvation in everyday language tha...
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DISCOURSE: 1934
THE FEELINGS OF A FAITHFUL MINISTER
1 Corinthians 2:3. _I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in
much trembling_.
THERE was one subject on which St. Paul delighted chiefly to
e...
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I WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS— St. Paul, by thus setting forth his own
modest and humble behaviour among them, reflects on the contrary
carriage of their false Apostle; which he describes at length, 2
Co...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 1
Unsophisticated but Dynamic (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
2 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the
testimony of God in lofty words or Wis. 2:1-24 For...
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
I - the preacher: as describes the subject, and the mode of
preaching.
WEAKNESS - personal and bodily (;...
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21 To this day the great, the noble, and the wise are a small minority
among the true saints of God. It is a matter of extreme thankfulness
that this is so. If high birth or wisdom or any other attain...
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THE NATURE OF ST. PAUL'S PREACHING
1-5. Paraphrase. 'When I visited you in Corinth I made no attempt to
reconcile my message with your Greek philosophy, (2) but kept to the
proclamation of the facts o...
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IN WEAKNESS] His first visit was paid at a time when he was either
sick in body from his recurrent malady (2 Corinthians 12:7), or sick
at heart from his failure at Athens (Acts 17:32), and dreading l...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 2
WHAT PAUL *PREACHED 2:1-5
V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, when I came to you I did not
come with clever words or great ideas. I *pr...
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AND I WAS WITH YOU. — To show that the real force of his teaching
lay in its subject-matter, and not in any power with which he may have
proclaimed the gospel, the Apostle now dwells upon his own phys...
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CHAPTER 4
THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING
In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject
which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of
the Corinthian Churc...
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§ 6. PAUL'S CORINTHIAN MISSION, Paul has justified his refusing to
preach ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου on two grounds: (1) the nature of
the Gospel, (2) the constituency of the Church of Cor [287]; _it_ was
no phil...
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“In weakness”: _cf._ 1 Corinthians 1:25; 1 Corinthians 1:27; also
2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 13:3
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GOD'S GLORY IN MEN'S WEAKNESS
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:1
Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments
on which the world relies pass before Christ. The wise, the mi...
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The apostle reminds the Corinthian Christians that when he first came
to them he did not come with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, but
with "the Word of the Cross." Yet there must be no foolish im...
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Preaching the Crucified Christ
Paul did not go to Corinth as an orator or philosopher. Instead, he
preached Jesus as the Anointed, or Christ, who was crucified. The
apostle admitted his appearance and...
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And I was with you in (c) weakness, and in fear, and in much
trembling.
(c) He contrasts weakness with excellency of words, and therefore
joins with it fear and trembling, which are companions of tru...
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In weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. We must not think,
says St. John Chrysostom, that this made the virtue of St. Paul less
commendable. It is natural to every man to fear persecutions an...
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“And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.”
The words καὶ ἐγώ, _and I_, are not the repetition of the
κἀγώ of 1 Corinthians 2:1; they announce a new feature
subordinate to the pr...
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2:1-5.
St. Paul applies to his own ministry at Corinth the principle which he
has just laid down, and shows that he has been faithful to it. This is
the conclusion of the whole passage....
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(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. (2) For
I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Chris...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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3._And I was with you in weakness _He explains at greater length what
he had previously touched upon — that he had nothing shining or
excellent in him in the eyes of men, to raise him to distinction....
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It was in this spirit that Paul had come among them at first; he would
know nothing but Christ, [2] and Christ in His humiliation and
abasement, object of contempt to senseless men. His speech was not...
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AND I WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS,.... Meaning either the weakness of his
bodily presence, the contemptibleness of his voice, and the mean
figure he made as a preacher among them, both with respect to th...
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
Ver. 3. _In weakness_] In misery, and in a mean condition, labouring
with his hands, &c., Acts 18:3 .
_ And in fear_] Of adversari...
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_For I determined not to know any thing_, &c. To act as one who knew
nothing, or to waive all my other knowledge, and not to preach any
thing _save Jesus Christ and him crucified_ That is, what he tau...
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IN WEAKNESS-FEAR-TREMBLING; he knew that he had many enemies. He felt
deeply his insufficiency, and was fearful that he should fail of
success. God, however, who knew his difficulties, had compassion...
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AND I WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS AND IN FEAR AND IN MUCH TREMBLING....
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THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS.
Paul's preaching not in man's wisdom:...
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It was through Paul that the Corinthians had been brought to God; and
he here reminds them that when he first came there, he had avoided the
use of high-sounding speech and intellectual arguments: it...
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AND. WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS, AND IN FEAR, AND IN MUCH TREMBLING.
'I was with you' -Acts Chapter 18.
'IN WEAKNESS' -'even as Paul's manner of preaching did not present the
gospel as. new philosophy...
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1-5 Christ, in his person, and offices, and sufferings, is the sum
and substance of the gospel, and ought to be the great subject of a
gospel minister's preaching, but not so as to leave out other pa...
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Either in a weakness of style, I used a plain, low, intelligible
style, studying rather to be understood by all than admired by any. Or
in weakness of state, in a mean and low condition; for we read,...
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
[Paul frequently asserts his tendency to physical weakness and
depression (1 Corinthians 4:7-12; Galatians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 10:1;...
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1 Corinthians 2:3 G2532 I G1473 was G1096 (G5633) with G4314 you G5209
in G1722 weakness G769...
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‘And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling,
and my word and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your...
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1 Corinthians 2:3. AND I WAS WITH YOU IN WEAKNESS, AND IN FEAR, AND IN
MUCH TREMBLING. It is remarkable that nowhere else does the apostle so
speak, nor does he seem to have anywhere else felt such an...
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I WAS WITH YOU
(εγενομην προς υμας). Rather, "I came to you" (not
ην, was). "I not only eschewed all affectation of cleverness or
grandiloquence, but I went to the opposite extreme of diffidence and...
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CONTENTS: Christian revelation not indebted to human wisdom. Spiritual
verities not discoverable to human wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The Christian on his knees ca...
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1 Corinthians 2:2. _I determined not to know any thing among you, save
Jesus Christ and him crucified._ That is, to know him in the glory of
his person, as revealed in the oracles of truth. “I and the...
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SO WHEN I CAME TO YOU. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 tell how Paul _did not
come._ 1 Corinthians 2:3-5 tell how he _did come._ Weak AND TREMBLED.
The Greeks evaluated their philosophers by the power and style o...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 NOT... WITH LOFTY SPEECH OR
WISDOM. Paul avoided Greek rhetoric. Instead he focused on the message
of the cross. He wanted the Corinthians to trust in Christ, n...
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CHAPTER II.
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
He proceeds to exalt the spiritual wisdom of Christ above all natural
and animal wisdom. Therefore he says:
I. That he knew and preached nothing but Christ cruci...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
(_For many points, see Homiletic Analysis_.)
1 Corinthians 2:1. I.—Slightly emphatic; _q.d_. “I was myself also
in complete harmony of spirit and method with the lines of God’s
proce...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 2:1
_St. Paul's own method._
1 CORINTHIANS 2:1
AND I; "I too;" I in accordance with God's method. WHEN I CAME TO
YOU. The date of his first visit was in A.D. 52, an
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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God (1
Corinthians 2:1).
Paul didn't come as one of the Corinthian philosopher...
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1 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 10:10; 2
Corinthians 11:29;...
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I was with you [ε γ ε ν ο μ η ν π ρ ο ς υ μ α ς]. I
was is rather I became. I fell into a state of weakness, etc., after I
had come among you. With you, i e., in intercourse with. See on with
God, Joh...
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PAUL THE PREACHER
1 Corinthians 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Apostle, Paul, now is speaking of the kind of an entrance he had
among the Corinthians. He had been very happy to move among them and
prea...
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And I was with you — At my first entrance. In weakness — Of body,
2 Corinthians 12:7 And in fear — Lest I should offend any. And in
much trembling — The emotion of my mind affecting my very body....
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Observe here, 1. How the apostle declares that his person was suitable
to his preaching, both plain, neither pompous. 2 Corinthians 10:10 He
tells us, THAT HIS BODILY PRESENCE WAS WEAK AND MEAN, AND H...