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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:14

For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ.Paul here stated that his authority was fully ample to reach Corinth without, in any sense, "stretching" it! The perspective of the false teachers was local; Paul's was universal. Paul had come to Corinth in the first place, not as a final destination, but as a stop en route on a preaching tour of vast dimensions.Filson very properly applied this passage to the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:15

But not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance.In this verse, again, "province" is substituted for measuring-rod, because it is clear that he is speaking of a "field of labor" allotted to himself.In other men's labors ... God had sent the apostle to Corinth; the field was therefore his; and the false apostles, not Paul, were the intruders and... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:16

So as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.Macknight's paraphrase of this makes the correct application to the false teachers as follows:So as to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, where no person hath yet preached, and not in another man's bounds, to take praise to myself on account of things already prepared, that is, of churches already planted, as the false teacher hath done.[16]This was... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:17

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.The false teachers were glorying in many things, but in nothing that God had done through them. They were preening themselves like peacocks, boasting of their credentials, which were doubtless as phony as they were, bragging of their "liberty" to attend idol feasts, and flaunting the sophisticated rhetoric in vogue among the Greeks. There was nothing of the Lord in any of that; and Paul here nailed them down as wicked impostors. Whatever they had... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:18

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.Paul's work among the Corinthians had been marked by the authority and blessing of God, they themselves having accepted the gospel through his preaching; and, in the light of those facts, the honor that some of them were willing to give the false prophets was as scandalous as it was unjust and wicked."The only true ground of approval is to do the work of Christ."[17] Reluctant as Paul was to mention his own personal... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:12

2 Corinthians 10:12. But they, measuring themselves by themselves,— Dr. Whitby would render it measuring themselves by one another; as if they compared themselves with their false apostles, and grew proud in the degree in which they resembled them in accurateness and eloquence, or other things on which those deceitful teachers valued themselves. But it is more natural to think the meaning is, "They looked continually on themselves, surveying their own great imaginary furniture, but not... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:13

2 Corinthians 10:13. Without our measure,— The original word Αμετρα, here and in 2Co 10:15 does not signify immense, or immoderate, but something which had not been measured out and allotted to him; something which is not committed to him,nor within his province. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:14

2 Corinthians 10:14. For we are come as far, &c.— This seems to charge the false Apostle, the grand leader of the faction, who had caused all this disturbance in the church of Corinth, that without being appointed to it, without preaching the gospel in his way thither, as became an apostle, he had unlawfully crept into that church read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:15-16

2 Corinthians 10:15-16. Not boasting, &c.— That is, "Not intermeddling, or assuming to myself an authority to meddle, or any honour for doing so." St. Paul here visibly taxes the false Apostle for coming into a church converted and gathered by another, and there pretending to be somebody, and to rule all. This, among several other passages, shews, that the opposition made to St. Paul was owing chiefly to one man, who had placed himself at the head of the faction; for it is plain that it was... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:18

2 Corinthians 10:18. But whom the Lord commendeth.— Particularly by the gifts of the Holy Ghost. It is of these weapons of his warfare that St. Paul speaks in this chapter; and it is by them that he intends to try which is the true Apostle, when he comes to them. Inferences.—With what meekness and condescension, in imitation of our blessed Lord, should his servants labour to win over such, as are unreasonably prejudiced against them and their ministrations; and yet with what authority should... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:14

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:15

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:16

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:17

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:12

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:15-16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 10:18

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