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2 Corinthians 13
Verse 1. I am coming this third time - He had been coming twice before,
though he did not actually come.
Verse
2. All the rest - Who have since then sinned in any of these kinds.
I will not spare - I will severely punish them.
Verse
4. He was crucified through weakness - Through the impotence of
human nature. We also are weak with him - We appear weak and
despicable by partaking of the same sufferings for his sake. But
we shall live with him - Being raised from the dead. By the power
of God in you - By that divine energy which is now in every
believer, 2 Cor. xiii, 5.
Verse
5. Prove yourselves - Whether ye are such as can, or such as
cannot, bear the test - This is the proper meaning of the word
which we translate, reprobates. Know ye not yourselves, that
Jesus Christ is in you - All Christian believers know this, by the
witness and by the fruit of his Spirit. Some translate the words,
Jesus Christ is among you; that is, in the church of Corinth; and
understand them of the miraculous gifts and the power of Christ
which attended the censures of the apostle.
Verse
6. And I trust ye shall know - By proving yourselves, not by
putting my authority to the proof.
Verse
7. I pray God that ye may do no evil - To give me occasion of
showing my apostolical power. I do not desire to appear approved
- By miraculously punishing you. But that ye may do that which is
good, though we should be as reprobates - Having no occasion to
give that proof of our apostleship.
Verse
8. For we can do nothing against the truth - Neither against that
which is just and right, nor against those who walk according to
the truth of the gospel.
Verse
9. For we rejoice when we are weak - When we appear so, having
no occasion to show our apostolic power. And this we wish, even
your perfection - In the faith that worketh by love.
Verse
11. Be perfect - Aspire to the highest degree of holiness. Be of
good comfort - Filled with divine consolation. Be of one mind -
Desire, labour, pray for it, to the utmost degree that is possible.
Verse
13. The grace - Or favour. Of our Lord Jesus Christ - By which
alone we can come to the Father. And the love of God -
Manifested to you, and abiding in you. And the communion - Or
fellowship. Of the Holy Ghost - In all his gifts and graces. It is
with great reason that this comprehensive and instructive blessing
is pronounced at the close of our solemn assemblies; and it is a
very indecent thing to see so many quitting them, or getting into
postures of remove, before this short sentence can be ended. How
often have we heard this awful benediction pronounced! Let us
study it more and more, that we may value it proportionably; that
we may either deliver or receive it with a becoming reverence,
with eyes and hearts lifted up to God, "who giveth the blessing
out of Sion, and life for evermore."
Chapter 13:
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
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