“ Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? ”
Did I make a gain ... - In refuting this slander, Paul appeals boldly to the facts, and to what they knew. “Same the man,” says he, “who has thus defrauded you under my instructions. If the charg...
Retrospect of the Boasting. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began ( 2 Corinthians 11:1 ; 2...
Did I . The question, expecting. negative answer, is introduced by me . make. gain . Greek. pleonekteo. See 2 Corinthians 2:11 . by . Greek. dia . App-104. 2 Corinthians 12:1 . any . Gre...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Did I make a gain of you - Did any person I ever sent to preach the Gospel to you, or help you in your Christian course, ever get any thi...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Paul's reply: You know well I did not. My associates were as disinterested as myself. An important rule to all who would influence...
His Privileges and Trials The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily in...
By any of them whom I sent unto you? — The English expresses the meaning of the Greek, but does not show, as that does, the vehement agitation which led the writer, as he dictated the letter, to be...
Chapter 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corint...
“I Seek not Yours, but You” 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he di...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glor...
Did I make a gain of you ,.... He appeals to the Corinthians against such calumnies and false insinuations, whether ever he had circumvented them in such a manner, or had ever used such artful metho...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Ver. 17. Whom I sent unto you ] It is said of the pope, that he can never lack money so long as he can hold a pen in his hand; he can...
Be it so , &c. But some may object; though I did not burden you Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet being crafty, I caught you with guile I did secretly by my messengers what...
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up"...
Paul's Expostulations. A. D. 57. 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: fo...
Ver. 17,18. The apostle, to avoid or wipe off this imputation, appealeth to themselves to name any person (whom he had sent unto them) that had taken any thing of them for his use. He saith, that he...
He Assures Them of His Care For Them ( 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 ). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This s...
CRITICAL NOTES ( No break, except that of a new paragraph .) 2 Corinthians 12:1 .—Note reading; probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “ expedient ” ( 1 Corinthians 6:12 ;...
2 Corinthians 12:1 . It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any research...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 ). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" ( 2 Corinthians 12:7-47 ). One more apology for glorying ( 2 Corinthians 12:11 , 2...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
1 Corinthians 16:10 ; 1 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Corinthians 12:18 ; 2 Kings 5:16 ; 2 Kings 5:20-27
I answer this lying accusation by appealing to plain fact. Did I make a gain of you by Titus — Or any other of my messengers? You know the contrary. It should be carefully observed, that St. Paul d...