哥林多後書 4:8 CUNPTS

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 4:8

troubled = afflicted, Greek. thlibo . See 2 Corinthians 1:6 . on every side = in (Greek. en) every thing. distressed . Greek. stenochoreomai, Only here and 2 Corinthians 6:12 , where it is translated "straitened". The Syriac rends "suffocated", referring probably to a wrestler who is compressed by his antagonist. perplexed . Greek apareomai. Not knowing which way to turn. See Acts 25:20 . in despair . Greek. exaporeomai . See 2 Corinthians 1:8 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.As Macknight said, "This is supposed to refer to the Grecian games";[29] but the figure of a race (the third analogy) would not be true in such a comparison, because Paul's enemies were not in a Christian race with Paul. Plumptre believed that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

2 Corinthians 4:8. We are troubled on every side,— This and the following verses contain a beautiful and pathetic detail of the sufferings of the Apostles; and the contrast which runs through them gives an air of sublimity to the whole, at the same time that it conveys a noble ideaof the intrepidity of the first Christians. This passage may at first seem a digression, but nothing could be more pertinent to the Apostle's grand purpose. He aimed at recovering the affections of these Corinthians,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

8. Greek, "BEING hard pressed, yet not inextricably straitened; reduced to inextricable straits" (nominative to "we have," :-). on every side—Greek, "in every respect" (compare :-, "always"; :-). This verse expresses inward distresses; :-, outward distresses ( :-). "Without were fightings; within were fears." The first clause in each member of the series of contrasted participles, implies the earthiness of the vessels; the second clause, the excellency of the power. perplexed, but not in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

3. The sufferings and supports of a minister of the gospel 4:7-5:10Paul proceeded to explain further the nature of ministry under the New Covenant so his readers would understand his ministry and theirs better. The nature of Christianity is paradoxical. Second Corinthians explains more of these paradoxes than any other New Testament book.In writing this epistle Paul wanted his readers to realize that his ministry was not faulty, as his critics charged, but that it was solidly within the will of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

The contrast between the message and the messenger 4:7-15Paul presented many paradoxical contrasts involved in the sufferings and supports of the Christian to clarify for his readers the real issues involved in serving Jesus Christ."This passage, which is about suffering and death (2 Corinthians 4:7-12), stands in stark contrast with the theme of ’glory’ so brilliantly developed by Paul in 2 Corinthians 3:7 to 2 Corinthians 4:6, to which he also will return in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18." [Note:... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Paul pointed out four specific ways in which the weakness of his earthen vessel contrasted with God’s power (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:10). He may have been thinking of himself as a gladiator or soldier in view of what he wrote. He had been on the ropes but not trapped in a corner. He was without proper provision but not completely without resources. He was a hunted man but not totally forsaken. Finally he felt beaten down but not destroyed. In these respects his life, representing... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

1-6. The messengers of this gospel are not afraid to proclaim it, for they preach Christ, who has revealed the glory of God.1, 2. Paraphrase. ’Having this glorious gospel to preach, we proclaim it boldly. (2) We have nothing to do with methods and practices which cannot bear the light (like those of your false teachers), for we neither seek to undo another’s work by unscrupulous hints and disgraceful insinuations, nor try to gain the favour of the Jewish Christians by false teaching about the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 4:8

(8) We are troubled on every side.—The Greek presents all the clauses in a participial form, in apposition with the “we” with which 2 Corinthians 4:7 opens. The careful antithesis in each case requires some modification of the English version in order to be at all adequately expressed. Hemmed-in in everything, yet not straitened for room perplexed, yet not baffled; or, as it has been rendered, less literally, but with great vividness, bewildered, but not benighted. The imagery in both clauses... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 4:8

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