Chapter 10:
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2 Corinthians 10
Verse 1. Now I Paul myself - - A strongly emphatical expression. Who
when present am base among you - So, probably, some of the
false teachers affirmed. Copying after the meekness and
gentleness of Christ, entreat - Though I might command you.
Verse
2. Do not constrain me when present to be bold - To exert my
apostolical authority. Who think of us as walking after the flesh -
As acting in a cowardly or crafty manner.
Verse
3. Though we walk in the flesh - In mortal bodies, and,
consequently, are not free from human weakness. Yet we do not
war - Against the world and the devil. After the flesh - By any
carnal or worldly methods. Though the apostle here, and in
several other parts of this epistle, speaks in the plural number, for
the sake of modesty and decency, yet he principally means
himself. On him were these reflections thrown, and it is his own
authority which he is vindicating.
Verse
4. For the weapons of our warfare - Those we use in this war. Are
not carnal - But spiritual, and therefore mighty to the throwing
down of strong holds - Of all the difficulties which men or devils
can raise in our way. Though faith and prayer belong also to the
Christian armour, Eph. vi, 15, &c., yet the word of God seems to
be here chiefly intended.
Verse
5. Destroying all vain reasonings, and every high thing which
exalteth itself - As a wall or rampart. Against the knowledge of
God, and bringing every thought - Or, rather, faculty of the mind.
Into captivity to the obedience of Christ - Those evil reasonings
are destroyed. The mind itself, being overcome and taken captive,
lays down all authority of its own, and entirely gives itself up to
perform, for the time to come, to Christ its conqueror the
obedience of faith.
Verse
6. Being in readiness to avenge all disobedience - Not only by
spiritual censure, but miraculous punishments. When your
obedience is fulfilled - When the sound part of you have given
proof of your obedience, so that I am in no danger of punishing
the innocent with the guilty.
Verse
7. Do ye look at the outward appearance of things - Does any of
you judge of a minister of Christ by his person, or any outward
circumstance? Let him again think this of himself - Let him learn
it from his own reflection, before I convince him by a severer
method.
Verse
8. I should not be ashamed - As having said more than I could
make good.
Verse
9. I say this, that I may not seem to terrify you by letters -
Threatening more than I can perform.
Verse
10. His bodily presence is weak - His stature, says St.
Chrysostom, was low, his body crooked, and his head bald.
Verse
12. For we presume not - A strong irony. To equal ourselves - As
partners of the same office. Or to compare ourselves - As
partakers of the same labour. They among themselves limiting
themselves - Choosing and limiting their provinces according to
their own fancy.
Verse
13. But we will not, like them, boastingly extend ourselves
beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province
which God hath allotted us - To me, in particular, as the apostle of
the gentiles. A measure which reaches even unto you - God
allotted to each apostle his province, and the measure or bounds
thereof.
Verse
14. We are come even to you - By a gradual, regular process,
having taken the intermediate places in our way, in preaching the
gospel of Christ.
Verse
15. Having hope, now your faith is increased - So that you can the
better spare us. To be enlarged by you abundantly - That is,
enabled by you to go still further.
Verse
16. In the regions beyond you - To the west and south, where the
gospel had not yet been preached.
Chapter 10:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 Corinthians Galatians
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