1 Corinthians 5:4; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10
Sufficient to such a man - The incestuous person who had been by Paul’s direction removed from the church. The object of Paul here is to have him...
Someone in the congregation at Corinth who had done wrong is now to be forgiven. There are still some scholars who think that the person here referre...
man . one, as 2 Corinthians 2:7 . Punishment . censure. Greek. epitimia . Only here. Compare the verb epitimao . First occurance: Matthew 8:26...
6. Sufficient. He now extends kindness even to the man who had sinned more grievously than the others, and on whose account his anger had be...
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment - That is, the man has alre...
Sufficient to such a man, &c.— "Sufficient to such a one, who has here been the aggressor, but is now a penitent, is this rebuke and censure, w...
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. Sufficient - Greek х hikanon ( G2425 )], 'a sufficiency' (since...
(b) 2:8-13. The Object and Results of the severe Letter The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter...
Paraphrase. 'Now with regard to the person who has been the occasion of this grief, he has grieved not me only, but to some extent (not to be too h...
Punishment ] probably excommunication: cp. 1 Corinthians 5:4-5 ; (a different case). Of many ] i.e. by the majority.
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment. — Better, perhaps, this censure, or rebuke: the Greek word epitimia being different from those i...
Chapter 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends...
Chapter 6 CHURCH DISCIPLINE. 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 (R.V) IN verses 5-11 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 of this Epistle, St. Paul said a great deal abou...
Tender-hearted and Forgiving 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-11 In these opening words Paul evidently refers to the sin mentioned in...
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with ma...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me gl...
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment ,.... By this punishment is meant, the excommunication of the incestuous person, or the censure that was...
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. Ver. 6. Sufficient to such a man ] The Novatians therefore were out...
Sufficient to such a man With what remarkable tenderness does the apostle treat this offender! He never once mentions his name, nor does he here so...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reas...
Case of the Incestuous Person. A. D. 57. 5...
OLBGrk; This verse maketh it clear, that by any, 2 Corinthians 2:5 , he means the incestuous person, mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 , who...
‘Sufficient to such a one is this punishment (‘censure, reproof, reprimand') which was inflicted by the many, so that, in contrast to that, you shoul...
CRITICAL NOTES ( N.B .— The paragraph really begins at 2 Corinthians 1:23 .) 2 Corinthians 1:1 . Determined .—As in 1 Corinthians 2:2 . For...
2 Corinthians 2:1 . But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness; but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The of...
But if any have caused grief The aim of Church discipline is in the last resort the restoration of the fallen. The Church has, of course, an...
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus ( 2 Corinthians 2:1-47 ). Their treatment of the incestuous of...
The case of the notorious sinner:
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many,
Sufficient for such an one — With what a remarkable tenderness does St. Paul treat this offender! He never once mentions his name. Nor does he here...
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment,a which was inflicted of many.