“ Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: ”
Ye are our epistle - compare 1 Corinthians 9:2 . This is a most beautiful and happy turn given to the whole subject. The sense is plain. It is, that the conversion of the Corinthians, under the...
2 Corinthians 3:1 to 2 Corinthians 4:10 . The Splendour of the Apostolic Ministry in Spite of its Outward Lowliness. 2 Corinthians 3:1-6 . One of the charges laid against Paul had probably bee...
written . Cr. engrapho. Only here and 2 Corinthians 3:3 . in. Greek. en , App-104. known. Greek ginosko. App-132. read. Greek anaginosko. There is. Paronomasia here, App-6. of ....
2. Ye are our Epistle. There is no little ingenuity in his making his own glory hinge upon the welfare of the Corinthians. “So long as you shall remain Christians, I shall have recommendatio...
DISCOURSE: 2005 CHRISTIANS ARE EPISTLES OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 3:2-3 . If are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epi...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Ye are our epistle - I bear the most ardent love to you. I have no need to be put in remembrance of you by any epistles or other m...
Ye are our epistle, &c.— "I may well say, that you are yourselves our epistle, the best recommendation from God himself; his testimonial, as it were, written upon your hearts, in the glorious...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Our letter - of recommendation. Written in our hearts - not borne merely in the hands. Though this living letter be wr...
Paraphrase. 'In speaking thus highly of my motives I am not writing a letter to commend myself, nor do I need (like these opponents of mine) letters of recommendation either to you or from you. (2)...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts. — This is an answer. They, the Corinthian converts, are written on his heart. In his thoughts and prayers for them he finds his true commendatory letter, a...
Chapter 8 LIVING EPISTLES. 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 (R.V) "ARE we beginning again to commend ourselves?" Paul does not mean by these words to admit that he had been commending himself before: he me...
the Savor of the Knowledge of Christ 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 ; 2 Corinthians 3:1-6 Paul, in 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 , imagines himself as part of his Master's procession passing through the world...
The apostle declared that the Church is the supreme credential of the power of the ministry. The Corinthian Christians are "known and read of all men." This, however, was not the deepest truth. They...
(1) Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? (2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and r...
Ye are our epistle ,.... Here a reason is given why they stood in no need of letters of commendation, to or from the church at Corinth, because that church was their living epistle, and which was mu...
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Ver. 2. You are our epistle ] The fruitfulness of the people is the preacher's testimonial; as the profiting of the scholar is...
Do we begin again While we thus speak and avow our integrity; to commend Or recommend; ourselves As some insinuate we do? Is it needful to do so? have we nothing but our own word to recommend u...
Did the Corinthians assume that Paul was merely commending himself or defending himself in penning the last verse of chapter 2? It was not so; but necessity demanded that they should recognize that h...
Apology for Seeming Self-Commendation. A. D. 57. 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or...
Your Christianity, and embracing of the gospel of Christ, your fiath and holiness, are instead of an epistle to me, to let the world know, both with what faithfulness, and with what blessing of God,...
‘Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men, it being rev...
CRITICAL NOTES N.B. A continuous outpour of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, from 2 Corinthians 2:17 to 2 Corinthians 6:10 . 2 Corinthians...
2 Corinthians 3:1-5 I. There is a peculiar writing on the tablet of the Christian's soul. The old covenant, with its precepts and penalties, was engraven upon slabs of stone; but the new covenant,...
2 Corinthians 3:1 . Do we begin again to commend ourselves? A happy mode of recovery, as though he had slidden unawares into self-applause, when contrasting his ministry with that of false teacher...
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we … epistles of commendation? A pastor’s claim 1. The voluntary relations of men are founded upon mutual confidence, and even those which are i...
EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need ( 2 Corinthians 3:1-47 ). His sufficiency comes from God ( 2 Corinthians 3:4-47 ), who has made him min...
The Glory of the New Testament Ministry. The apostle's letter of commendation:
1 Corinthians 3:10 ; 1 Corinthians 9:1 ; 1 Corinthians 9:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:11 ; 2 Corinthians 12:15 ; 2 Corinthians 7:3 ; Philippians 1:7 ; Romans 1:8
Ye are our recommendatory letter — More convincing than bare words could be. Written on our hearts — Deeply engraven there, and plainly legible to all around us.