2 Corinthians 6:1. AND WORKING TOGETHER _with him,_ WE ENTREAT ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD compare Acts 24:24, “the gospel of the grace of God,” and ACTS 13:42, “persuaded them to continue in the grace of God,” in vain: ‘Having pleaded with the _unreconciled_, as though God were pleadi... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:2. (FOR HE SAITH (Isaiah 49:8), AT AN ACCEPTABLE [1] TIME I HEARKENED UNTO THEE, AND IN THE DAY OF SALVATION I SUCCOURED THEE. The whole strain of prophecy from which these words are quoted is brightly Messianic, and the words quoted were addressed by Jehovah to “His Servant” the Mes... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:4. BUT IN EVERYTHING COMMENDING OURSELVES AS (beseems) MINISTERS OF God particularly in patience... distresses four forms of trial of a personal nature;... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:5. IN STRIPES ... TUMULTS from without, arising from opposition to his ministry; IN LABOURS ... FASTINGS undergone as a self-denying Christian and minister of Christ;... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:6. IN PURENESS... IN THE HOLY GHOST probably such manifestations of the power of the truth as left no room for doubt that it was the Holy Ghost “giving testimony to the word of His grace.”... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:7. IN THE WORD OF TRUTH... BY THE ARMOUR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ON THE RIGHT HAND AND ON THE LEFT by our conscious rectitude, which, amid all attacks both from open and concealed enemies, is our defence wherever we turn. So we take these words (with Calvin). To understand it of the “righte... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:8.... AS DECEIVERS in the account of our enemies, AND _YET_ TRUE in reality;... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:9. AS UNKNOWN by the great indifferent world, AND _YET_ WELL KNOWN by all who take the trouble to hear us, and specially by all who have felt the quickening power of our preaching (chap. 2 Corinthians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 4:2). We can say of ourselves as our Master said to the high pri... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:10. as SORROWFUL, YET ALWAYS REJOICING “sowing in tears, yet reaping in joy;” a paradox to which no true servant of Christ, who “watches for souls as one that shall give account,” is quite a stranger; AS POOR in this world's goods, YET MAKING MANY RICH putting them in possession of “... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:11-12. OUR MONTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU, O CORINTHIANS, OUR HEART IS ENLARGED. YE ARE NOT STRAITENED IN US, BUT YE ARE STRAITENED IN YOUR OWN AFFECTIONS ‘If there is any want of openness between us, it is not on our part, but all on your own; injurious thoughts of us, bred of unworthy susp... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:13. NOW FOR A RECOMPENSE IN LIKE KIND (I speak as unto _my_ children), BE YE ALSO ENLARGED ‘As a spiritual father to his children in the faith, let me ask you to open your hearts frankly to me, as mine is opened to you, and suffer me now freely to counsel you.'... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:14. BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS. The figure is drawn from the heterogeneous yoking of animals in a team (compare Deuteronomy 22:10, “Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together;” and see Leviticus 19:19); and though the more immediate reference probably is to too... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:15. AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? From the use of this proper name, and the antithesis with Christ, it evidently is meant (like Beelzebub in Matthew 12:24) as a synonym for Satan (Stanley), OR WHAT PORTION HATH A BELIEVER WITH AN UNBELIEVER? It is not their having diffe... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:16. AND WHAT AGREEMENT HATH THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR WE [1] ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD- not only in contrast with the dead idols in the heathen temples, but to express the living character of the temple itself (1 Peter 2:5); [1] The first person plural, not the second... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 6:17. WHEREFORE, COME YE OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NO UNCLEAN THING. We have here another quotation, from Isaiah 52:11, in which Israel is prophetically summoned to shake off the defilement they contracted by their long residence among the idola... [ Continue Reading ]