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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:12-13

Paul’s recent journey to Macedonia 2:12-13The reason Paul included the information in these transitional verses appears to have been to help his readers appreciate his anxious concern for their welfare, which Titus was to report to him. It was, further, to explain the reason for his movements. Paul did not leave Troas because he was acting on the emotions of the moment but because he had a deep concern for the Corinthians. This is the last of Paul’s explanations of his recent conduct in this... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:12-17

A. Defense of Paul’s conduct with regard to his promised visit and the offender 1:12-2:17In 2 Corinthians Paul was addressing a situation in which his own children in the faith doubted his sincerity and motives. He, too, had doubts about their commitment to Jesus Christ and to himself as the Lord’s apostle. Nevertheless Paul also voiced some strong convictions in this epistle and sought to move his doubting readers to a condition of greater faith. This section of the epistle introduces this... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:1-17

(b) 2:8-13. The Object and Results of the severe LetterThe Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter he wrote before. He then speaks of one man who has caused him pain, asking them to remit the punishment inflicted already and forgive him, and telling them that he had written also to ascertain the extent of their obedience, and that if they were willing to forgive now, so was he. He then relates his anxious desire to hear what had occurred on their... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Corinthians 2:12

(12) Furthermore, when I came to Troas.—The article, perhaps, indicates the Troad as a district, rather than the city, just as it does in the case of Saron. (See Note on Acts 9:35.) The case of the offender had come in as a parenthesis in 2 Corinthians 2:5-8. He returns to the train of thought which it had interrupted, and continues his narrative of what had passed after he had written the First Epistle. (On Troas, see Notes on Acts 16:8.) A Church had probably been founded in that city by St.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Corinthians 2:1-17

Forewarned, Forearmed 2 Corinthians 2:11 'Knowledge is power,' said Lord Bacon; and to know some of the subtleties of that malevolent power that fights against us, is so far to be forearmed. Paul does not tell us what the devices were. But probably the devices of today are very much the same as in Paul's time. We are not ignorant of his devices what, then, are some of these? I. Firstly, he labels evil things with pleasant names. There is a tendency in all language to do that. No man has ever... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 2:12-17

Chapter 7CHRIST’S CAPTIVE.2 Corinthians 2:12-17 (R.V)IN this passage the Apostle returns from what is virtually, if not formally, a digression, to the narrative which begins in 2 Corinthians 1:8 f., and is continued in 2 Corinthians 1:15 f. At the same time he makes a transition to a new subject, really though not very explicitly connected with what goes before - namely, his independent and divinely granted authority as an apostle. In the last verses of 2 Corinthians 2:1-17., and in 2... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:1-17

3. His Deep Exercise Concerning Them. Yet Overcoming. CHAPTER 2 1. The Burden of his Soul. (2 Corinthians 2:1-4 .) 2. Concerning the Brother who had been Disciplined. (2 Corinthians 2:5-11 .) 3. Overcoming. (2 Corinthians 2:12-17 .) In the previous chapter we read the reason why he had not gone to Corinth. “To spare you I came not to Corinth “ (2 Corinthians 1:23 ). He feared, that on account of their deplorable condition; exercising his God-given apostolic authority, he might appear as... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:12

2:12 {2} Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,(2) He returns to the confirmation of his apostleship, and brings forth both the testimonies of his labours, and also of God’s blessing. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:1-17

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 reason delayed his visit. For his First Epistle was such that it would tend to deeply plough them up, and make them sorry. He did not want to continue the same reproving ministry when he came to them. If they were made sorry in such a way as to correct the wrongs among them, then of course they would make him glad. So he had written with the earnest... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 2:1-13

THE APOSTLE ’S EXPLANATION Paul had left Ephesus where his first epistle had been written to this church, had crossed into Macedonia, and was now in Philippi (see Acts 19:23 to Acts 20:3 with 2 Corinthians 8:1 to 2 Corinthians 9:2 of this epistle.) The reception given his first letter had been generally favorable, but all had not submitted to his rebuke, and the adversaries who opposed his teachings before were more virulent than ever, now seeking to undermine his authority as an... read more