2 Corinthians 7:1. HAVING, THEREFORE, THESE PROMISES, BELOVED, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL DEFILEMENT OF FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD. It is a pity that this verse has been detached from the preceding chapter, of which it forms the natural close; for the “promises”... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:2. OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO US (_Gr. ‘_ Make room for us,' in your hearts), (see on 2 Corinthians 6:11-13); WE WRONGED NO MAN (when we were with you), WE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF NO MAN referring to the cruel insinuations by which it was sought to poison the minds of his con... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:3. [1] I SAY IT NOT TO CONDEMN YOU ‘I charge none of you with having said this of me; but since it has been insinuated in some quarters, I must repel it as a cruel wrong; against yourselves I have nothing to say,' [1] Here the apostle resumes the singular in speaking of himself (fro... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:4. GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU, GREAT IS MY GLORYING ON YOUR BEHALF: I AM FILLED WITH COMFORT, I OVERFLOW WITH JOY IN ALL OUR TRIBULATIONS. Now follows the cause of this exuberance of feeling.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:5. FOR EVEN WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA, OUR FLESH HAD NO RELIEF (see on chap. 2 Corinthians 2:12-13), BUT _WE WERE _ TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE; WITHOUT WERE FIGHTINGS (from enemies), within _were_ fears for his work, his converts, his reputation.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:6. NEVERTHELESS HE THAT COMFORTETH THE BOWED DOWN, _EVEN _ GOD, COMFORTED US BY THE COMING OF TITUS; 2 Corinthians 7:7. AND NOT BY HIS COMING ONLY, BUT ALSO BY THE COMFORT WHEREWITH HE WAS COMFORTED IN YOU bringing back such gladdening intelligence of your spiritual state, WHEN HE T... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:8. FOR THOUGH I MADE YOU SORRY WITH MY FORMER EPISTLE, I DO NOT REGRET IT, THOUGH I DID REGRET IT a strong expression of the pain it gave him to write as he had done, insomuch that he was haunted ‘with the impression that he had expressed himself too strongly, which he was now glad t... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:9. NOW I REJOICE... THAT YE WERE MADE SORRY UNTO REPENTANCE unto a complete change of mind about this case; the sorrow, though sharp, was short and it was salutary, FOR YE WERE MADE SORRY AFTER A GODLY SORT, THAT YE MIGHT SUFFER LOSS BY US IN NOTHING our treatment of you proved to be... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:10. FOR GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION, _A REPENTANCE _ BRINGING NO REGRET. The two words here used mean quite different things, and the difference is so important that the same word should not have been used for both in the Authorised Version. The first word means that... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:11. FOR ... WHAT EARNEST CARE in contrast with former indifference, YEA, WHAT CLEARING OF YOURSELVES from all real connivance at the deed, YEA, WHAT INDIGNATION against the deed, at length seen in its true light, and against yourselves for so long and so tamely enduring it, YEA, WHAT... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:12. SO THEN, ALTHOUGH I WROTE UNTO YOU,. _WROTE _ NOT FOR HIS CAUSE THAT DID THE WRONG, NOR FOR HIS CAUSE THAT SUFFERED THE WRONG. Who this was has been much disputed. The only natural interpretation is, the father of the incestuous person supposed by most in that case to be still al... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:13. THEREFORE WE WERE COMFORTED: AND IN OUR COMFORT WE JOYED THE MORE EXCEEDINGLY FOR THE JOY OF TITUS, BECAUSE HIS SPIRIT HATH BEEN REFRESHED BY YOU ALL (as already stated, 2 Corinthians 7:7). The exuberance of feeling here can be explained only by a combination of things the extrao... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:14. FOR IF IN ANY THING I HAVE GLORIED TO HIM ON YOUR BEHALF, I WAS NOT PUT TO SHAME ‘the event has justified to himself the high character I gave him of you.'... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:15. AND HIS INWARD AFFECTION IS MORE ABUNDANTLY TOWARD YOU, WHILST HE REMEMBERETH THE OBEDIENCE OF YOU ALL, HOW WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING YE RECEIVED HIM ‘how, instead of receiving him with cold suspicion, with a haughty disposition to justify yourselves and resent his interference, ye... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:16. I REJOICE THAT IN EVERYTHING I AM OF GOOD COURAGE CONCERNING YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]