Verse 2 Corinthians 2:13. I had no rest in my spirit] I was so concerned for you, through the love I bear you, that I was greatly distressed because I did not find Titus returned to give me an account of your state.
But taking my leave of them] I went thence into Macedonia, expecting to find him there; and thither he did come; and gave me a joyous account of your state. See 2 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 8:7.
I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT - I was disappointed, sad, deeply anxious. Though the work in which I was engaged was that which usually gives me my highest joy, yet such was my anxiety to learn the state...
3. HIS DEEP EXERCISE CONCERNING THEM. YET OVERCOMING. CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Burden of his Soul. (2 Corinthians 2:1 .)_ 2. Concerning the Brother who had been Disciplined. (2 Corinthians 2:5 .) 3. Over...
This will complete the joyful reconciliation already accomplished. Paul had found himself at Troas, restless and uneasy till he heard the result of his letter to Corinth. Even the great opportunity fo...
When we had come to Troas to tell the good news of Christ, even when a door of opportunity stood open to us in the Lord, I had no rest for my spirit, because I did not find Titus, my brother, there. B...
WHEN A SAINT REBUKES (2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4)...
NO. not (Greek. _ou)_. REST. Greek. _anesis_. See Acts 24:23. SPIRIT. App-101. TAKING... LEAVE. Greek. _apotassomai._ See Acts 18:18. WENT FROM THENCE. went forth. into. Greek _eis._ App-104....
_I had no rest in my spirit_ i.e. the higher and nobler part of his being, superior to the soul. Cf. 1 Corinthians 2:14-15 and notes. Also 1 Corinthians 15:44-46. _because I found not Titus my brother...
12–17. The passage about the great offender (2 Corinthians 2:5-11) follows quite naturally after 2 Corinthians 2:4, the connecting thought being λύπη. But it is somewhat of a digression, from which th...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΣΧΗΚΑ ἌΝΕΣΙΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΊ ΜΟΥ. Literally, I HAVE NOT GOT RELIEF FOR _my spirit_. As in 2 Corinthians 1:9, the perfect shows how vividly he recalls the feelings of that trying time. No one Engli...
_PAUL'S SEARCH FOR TITUS 2 CORINTHIANS 2:12-13:_ When Paul reached Troas he found a great open door for evangelism. Troas was an important port city along the Aegean Sea. It was situated in northweste...
ΈΣΧΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. _Perf._ может иметь значение _aor._ (BD, 177), но, возможно, Павел хочет подчеркнуть волнение, которое он испытывал до прибытия Тита (RG, 901). ΆΝΕΣΙΣ (G...
WHEN I COME TO TROAS— _When I came to Troas, and a door to the gospel of Christ was opened._ Knatchbull. How uneasy St. Paul was, and upon what account, see ch. 2 Corinthians 7:5. It was not barely fo...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Distance (2 Corinthians 2:12-13) 12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord; 13but my mind could not rest because I d...
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. NO REST IN MY SPIRIT - rather 'no rest for my spirit' (). As here h...
21 The operation of God's Spirit is here seen under three distinct figures: the anointing, the seal, and the earnest. Prophets and priests and kings were anointed for their office. They were anointed...
PARAPHRASE. 'I forgive any one whom you forgive; for I have no personal feeling in the matter, and it is only for your sakes that I speak of forgiveness at all, and I forgive in the spirit of Christ....
_(B) 2:8-13. THE OBJECT AND RESULTS OF THE SEVERE LETTER_ The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter he wrote before. He then speaks of one man who has cau...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 CH1V23 God is my witness. I did not return to Corinth in order to save you from a difficult situation. V24 We are not t...
I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT. — Instead of coming himself straight from Ephesus, as he had at first intended, and had intimated probably in the lost letter of 1 Corinthians 5:9, or by Timotheus (1 Corin...
CHAPTER 7 CHRIST'S CAPTIVE. 2 Corinthians 2:12 (R.V) IN this passage the Apostle returns from what is virtually, if not formally, a digression, to the narrative which begins in 2 Corinthians 1:8 f.,...
CHAPTER 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 2:1 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends himself from the charge of levity and untrustworthiness by app...
HE WAS DISAPPOINTED AT NOT MEETING TITUS IN TROAS, BUT HE REJOICES NOW TO LEARN THAT HIS MESSAGE OF REPROOF HAS BEEN LOYALLY RECEIVED IN CORINTH....
οὐκ ἔσχηκα ἄνεσιν τῷ πν.: _I had no relief for my spirit_. So he says again (2 Corinthians 7:5) ἐλθόντων ἡμῶν εἰς Μακεδονίαν οὐδεμίαν ἔσχηκεν ἄνεσιν ἡ σὰρξ ἡμῶν. We are not to lay much stress on πνεῦμ...
THE SAVOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 3:1 Paul, in 2 Corinthians 2:14, imagines himself as part of his Master's procession passing through the world.
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with many tears." Referring thus to his first letter, Paul...
PAUL'S SINCERITY If his words sounded boastful, Paul's conscience could withstand the test of God's scrutiny and still show him holy and truthful. He had not lived as one after earthly gain, but as on...
TRIUMPHANT IN CHRIST Before going into a brief discussion of discipline, Paul had been telling about the first letter and reasons for his delay in coming. He next resumed by telling them he went from...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? (3) And...
But had there been any lightness in his decisions, since, as he now informed them, he had intended to visit them on his way to Macedonia (where he was at the moment of writing this letter), and then a...
I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT,.... Though there was such a door opened to preach the Gospel, and such an opportunity of doing good, yet he was greatly distressed in his mind; very restless and uneasy in...
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. Ver. 13. _I had no rest, &c._] Gr. ανεσιν, no relaxation, viz. from m...
_Furthermore_ That ye may know my great concern for you; _when I came to Troas_ After the riot excited by Demetrius. He seems to refer to that passage from Asia to Macedonia, of which a short account...
I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT BECAUSE I FOUND NOT TITUS, MY BROTHER; BUT TAKING MY LEAVE OF THEM, I WENT FROM THENCE INTO MACEDONIA....
PAUL'S TRIUMPH IN CHRIST. 2 Corinthians 2:12...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reason delayed his visit. For his First Epistle was suc...
12-17 A believer's triumphs are all in Christ. To him be the praise and glory of all, while the success of the gospel is a good reason for a Christian's joy and rejoicing. In ancient triumphs, abunda...
He tells us, that when he came there, he was much troubled because he did not find his brother Titus; where the humility of this great apostle is considerable, in that he disdained not to call TITUS ...
I had no relief for my spirit [worrying about you], _because I found not Titus my brother_ [who had agreed to bring me word about you, and meet me at Troas]: _but taking my leave of them_ [the brethre...
2 Corinthians 2:13 had G2192 (G5758) no G3756 rest G425 my G3450 spirit G4151 I G3165 not G3361 find...
‘Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, I had no relief for my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I...
2 Corinthians 2:13. I HAD NO RELIEF FOR MY SPIRIT, BECAUSE I FOUND NOT TITUS MY BROTHER as if this seemed to bode ill news. He had sent him to Corinth (2 Corinthians 12:18) with the double purpose of...
I HAD NO RELIEF (ουκ εσχηκα ανεσιν). Perfect active indicative like that in 2 Corinthians 1:9, vivid dramatic recital, not to be treated as "for" the aorist (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 896, 898ff.). H...
CONTENTS: Forgiving those who have fallen into sin. The ministry of the Christian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus, an erring brother, Satan. CONCLUSION: When a brother is truly penitent for hi...
2 Corinthians 2:1. _But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness;_ but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The offender, a man no doubt much known in the city, had la...
DEEPLY WORRIED. Perhaps Paul was afraid Corinth had rejected his letter and that some special problem kept Titus there. It certainly was the Lord's will that Paul move on, and so he said good-bye to t...
_Furthermore, when I came to Troas._ THE EFFECT OF THE GOSPEL MINISTRY I. The work which the minister undertakes. I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel”; “God maketh manifest the savour of His kn...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 2:12 These verses explain some of Paul’s actions behind writing 2 Corinthians 1:1 (vv....
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares that he had not come to them through fear of causing sadness to himself and to them. II. He exhorts them (ver. 6) to re-admit the fornicator, on his...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 2:12. TROAS.— Acts 20:1. Note, “_for the Gospel_,” literally exact. DOOR.—Cf. 1 Corinthians 16:9, and material there....
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus (2 Corinthians 2:1). Their treatment of the incestuous offender (2 Corinthians 2:5). His thankfulness at the news whi...
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness (2 Corinthians 2:1). "I wrote a heavy letter to you, but I was determined that I wasn't going to come again in heavi...
2 Corinthians 12:18; 2 Corinthians 7:5; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 8:16;...
Rest [α ν ε σ ι ν]. Rev., relief. See on liberty, Acts 24:23. Taking my leave [α π ο τ α ξ α μ ε ν ο ς]. The verb means, primarily, to set apart or separate; hence to separate one's self, withdraw, an...
I had no rest in my spirit — From an earnest desire to know how my letter had been received. Because I did not find Titus — In his return from you. So I went forth into Macedonia — Where being much ne...