1 Corinthians 16:10; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 12:18; 2 Kings 5:16; 2 Kings 5:20-27
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...
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 sei...
Did I . The question, expecting. negative answer, is introduced by me . make. gain . Greek. pleonekteo. See 2 Corinthians 2:11 . by . Greek....
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 h...
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 my...
His Privileges and Trials The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell...
Paraphrase. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not your possession...
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 whic...
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...
“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 S...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something...
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...
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 mone...
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...
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...
Paul's Expostulations. A. D. 57. 11 I am b...
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...
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 d...
‘Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent to you?' Did any of the people whom he sent take advantage of them? Did they come a...
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...
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 divi...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 ). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" ( 2 Corinthians 12:7-47 ). One mo...
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:
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...
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?