“ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ”
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 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 tr...
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 hav...
trembling . Greek. tromos. Elsewhere, Mark 16:8 (literally trembling... seized them). 2 Corinthians 7:15 . Ephesians 6:5 . Philippians 1:2 ; Philippians 1:12 . Fear is joined with trembling in...
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 dist...
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 chiefl...
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 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...
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,...
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. I - the preacher: as 1 Corinthians 2:2 describes the subject, and 1 Corinthians 2:4 the mode of preaching. Weakness...
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 fac...
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 p...
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 C...
God's Glory in Men's Weakness 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments on which the world relies pass before Christ. The...
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 i...
(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 Chri...
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...
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...
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 h...
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...
The Apostle's Ministry. A. D. 57. 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excelle...
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,...
‘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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 2:1-46 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...
The Preaching of the Cross. Paul's preaching not in man's wisdom:
1 Corinthians 4:10-13 ; 2 Corinthians 10:1 ; 2 Corinthians 10:10 ; 2 Corinthians 11:29 ; 2 Corinthians 11:30 ; 2 Corinthians 12:5-10 ; 2 Corinthians 13:4 ; 2 Corinthians 4:1 ; 2 Corinthians...
Paul the Preacher 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 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 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....