“ Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. ”
Wherefore ... - It is not because I do not love you. It is not from pride, or because I would not as willingly receive aid from you as from any other. It is not because I am more unwilling to be...
A Tender Appeal to the Church as a Whole. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. Indeed he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspira...
love . Greek. agapao. App-132. knoweth . Greek. oida. App-132.
11. Is it because I love you not? Those that we love, we treat with greater familiarity. Lest the Corinthians, therefore, should take it amiss, that he refused their liberality, while he all...
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. Wherefore - Why have I acted thus? and why do I propose to continue to act thus? is it because I love you not, and will not permit you to contribute to...
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. Love is often offended at its favours not being accepted, as though the other party wished to be under no obligation to the offerer.
(b) 11:1-15. Defence of his Gospel and of his Independence St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary supp...
Because I love you not.. — This then had been said. Some of the Corinthians were jealous, or affected to be jealous, of the preference shown to the Macedonians in receiving gifts from them. With an...
Chapter 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7-29 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in...
Constrained to Silence Boasters 2 Corinthians 11:10-21 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts wit...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences...
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might wel...
Wherefore? because I love you not ?.... Why did the apostle do this? why did he take nothing, and resolve to take nothing of the Corinthians, for preaching the Gospel to them? why did he determine,...
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. Ver. 11. Because I lose you not? ] It should be a minister's care to preserve in the hearts of his people an opinion of his love to them. For if th...
As the truth of Christ is in me As sure as I am a true Christian, and an apostle. The expression has the nature of an oath. See on Romans 9:1 . No man shall stop me of this boasting For I will r...
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. A. D. 57. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very c...
Can you possibly interpret my not being chargeable to you, as proceeding from a want of love in me to you? God knoweth the contrary.
Paul Defends His Apostleship And Compares Himself With His Opponents ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Pa...
CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 11:7 . Or .—Turning to another topic. Offence .—Lit. “ Sin .” Freely .— I.e. “without charge .” Cf. Philippians 4:12 . 2 Corinthians 11:8 . Other Churches .— E...
2 Corinthians 11:1 . Bear with me a little in my folly; for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING . EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-47 ). He is not afraid of compa...
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:
2 Corinthians 11:10 ; 2 Corinthians 12:15 ; 2 Corinthians 12:2 ; 2 Corinthians 12:3 ; 2 Corinthians 6:11 ; 2 Corinthians 6:12 ; 2 Corinthians 7:3 ; Acts 15:8 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; John 2:24 ; J...
Do I refuse to receive anything of you, because I love you not? God knoweth that is not the case.