“ But as God is true, our wordd toward you was not yea and nay. ”
But as God is true - Tyndale renders this in accordance more literally with the Greek, “God is faithful; for our preaching unto you was not yea and nay.” The phrase seems to have the form of an o...
(10) But [as] God [is] (r) true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. (10) He calls God as witness and as judge of his constancy in preaching and teaching one self same Gospel. (r) True, and of...
But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, returning through Corinth from Macedonia, and taking fro...
true . faithful. Greek. pistos App-150. word. Greek. logos. App-121. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:18 . toward . unto. Greek. pros, as in verses: 2Co 1:15, 2 Corinthians 1:16 ; 2 Corinthians...
18. God is faithful. By the term word he means doctrine, as is manifest from the reason that he adds, when he says, that the Son of God, who is preached by him, is not variable, etc. A...
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. But as God is true - Setting the God of truth before my eyes, I could not act in this way: and as sure as he is true, so surely were m...
Yea, yea, and nay, nay?— The sense of these verses is, "I did not change my design through levity, nor did I purpose first one thing and then the contrary, as selfish views might determine me, 2 C...
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. He adds this lest they might think his DOCTRINE was changeable like his purposes (the change in which he admitted in 2 Corinthians...
Introductory Section 2 Corinthians 1:1-11 . Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and g...
As God is true. — Literally, as God is faithful. The words were one of St. Paul’s usual formulæ of assertion. (Comp. 1 Corinthians 1:9 ; 1 Corinthians 10:13 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 .) In other i...
Chapter 3 THE CHURCH'S ONE FOUNDATION. 2 Corinthians 1:15-20 (R.V) THE emphatic words in the first sentence are "in this confidence." All the Apostle's plans for visiting Corinth, both in gene...
Sincere like His Master 2 Corinthians 1:12-22 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1 ; Acts 24:16 . As we pass out of this life, and stand in the reve...
The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sa...
(15) And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; (16) And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you...
But as God is true ,.... It seems that the false apostles had insinuated, that as the apostle had not kept his word in coming to them as he had promised, that he was not to be depended upon in his m...
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. Ver. 18. Our word toward you, &c. ] God's children are all such as will not lie, say and unsay, blow hot and cold with a blast...
When I therefore was thus minded Having, therefore, purposed this; did I use lightness Did I lightly change my purpose? or, the things that I purpose in general; do I purpose according to the...
It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....
Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. A. D. 57. 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come un...
As God is true to his promises, so he hath taught me to be true to mine. Some make these words not to be merely declarative of the truth of God, but a kind of an oath, or calling the God of truth t...
‘But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him...
CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 1:12 . Rejoicing .—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2-3 ; Romans 5:11 , where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly e...
2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostl...
2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul and Timothy our brother. It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. With all the saints which are in Achaia; in which peninsul...
EXPOSITION Address and greeting ( 2 Corinthians 1:1 , 2 Corinthians 1:2 ). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympa...
No fickleness can be charged to the apostle:
1 John 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians 1:23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:31 ; John 7:28 ; John 8:26 ; Revelation 3:14 ; Revelation 3:7
Our word to you — The whole tenor of our doctrine. Hath not been yea and nay — Wavering and uncertain.