コリント人への手紙Ⅱ 4:16-17 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment; literally, for the immediate lightness of our affliction . Worketh for us. Is bringing about for us, with all the immeasurable force of a natural and progressive law. A far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; literally, in excess unto excess . For the phrase, "to excess—characteristic, like other emotional expressions, of this group of Epistles—see 2 Corinthians 1:8 ; Galatians 1:13 . The word "eternal" is in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause - With such an object in view, and sustained by such elevated purposes and desires. The sense is, that the purpose of trying to save as many as possible would make toil easy, privations welcome, and would be so accompanied by the grace of God, as to gird the soul with strength, and fill it with abundant consolations.We faint not - For an explanation of the word used here, see the note on 2 Corinthians 4:1. We are not exhausted, desponding, or disheartened. We are sustained,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction - This verse, with the following, is designed to show further the sources of consolation and support which Paul and his fellow-laborers had in their many trials. Bloomfield remarks on this passage, that “in energy and beauty of expression, it is little inferior to any in Demosthenes himself, to whom, indeed, and to Thucydides in his orations, the style of the apostle, when it rises to the oratorical, bears no slight resemblance.” The passage abounds with intensive and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

2 Corinthians 4:16-17. For which cause Because of which abounding grace that supports us; we faint not Under any of our present pressures; but though our outward man The body; perish Be worn out and brought to dust prematurely, by our continual labours and sufferings; our inward man The soul; is renewed day by day After the divine nature and likeness, receiving fresh degrees of spiritual strength, purity, and consolation, in proportion as the body grows weaker, and we feel our... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

The life and work of a servant (4:1-18)God’s true servants do not avoid their responsibilities or use dishonest methods. They do not change the plain meaning of God’s Word to suit themselves, but teach that Word faithfully and directly (4:1-2). Not all will believe, because Satan blinds their minds, but true preachers remember always that the message they preach is Christ’s, not theirs. Then, when the hearers allow the light of that message to shine into their hearts, they see Christ as their... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause = Therefore. though = even if. App-118 . outward (Greek. exo) man (Greek. anthropos, App-123 .) This expression Occurs only here. It is one of the rearms of the old nature. Compare Romans 6:6 . 1 Corinthians 2:14 .Ephesians 4:22; 2 Chronicles 3:92 Chronicles 3:9 . perish = is corrupted or destroyed, Greek diaphtheire. Occurs elsewhere, Luke 12:33 , 1 Timothy 6:5 .Revelation 8:9 ; Revelation 11:1 . inward . Greek. eadthen. In Romans 7:22 .Ephesians 3:16 , the word is eso... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:17

our light , &c. Literally the momentary lightness of our affliction. light. Greek. elaphros. Only here and Matthew 11:30 . Compare "lightness", 2 Corinthians 1:17 . affliction. Greek. thlipsis as in 2 Corinthians 1:4 . Compare the verb, 2 Corinthians 4:8 . for a moment . Greek. parautika. Only here. worketh. Greek. katergazomai. To work out. See Romans 7:8 . far more exceeding . Literally according to (Greek. kata . App-104 ,) excess unto (Greek. eis. App-104 .) excess. The Greek... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:16

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.Wherefore we faint not ... has the meaning of "For the four reasons just cited, he was able to endure."Our outward man is decaying ... This is not a reference to the "old man" (Romans 6:6; Ephesians 4:22; Colossians 3:9), having the simple meaning that his physical body, with all of its powers, was moving inexorably to its dissolution. All of the powers and glory of mortal life are like a... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.The surprise of this verse is that the epic sufferings of Paul should be termed "our light affliction"; This cannot mean, literally, that they were in any sense "light"; but that IN COMPARISON with the ultimate glory of Christians, they are light. James Macknight has an inspiring paragraph on this verse, as follows:It is hardly possible to express the force of this passage as... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:17

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:16

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:17

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