{"id":28762,"date":"2022-09-24T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-corinthians-114\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:56:10","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-corinthians-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-corinthians-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Corinthians 1:14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> 14. <em> As also<\/em> ] St Paul connects &ldquo;the future for which he <em> hopes<\/em>, with the past of which he <em> knows<\/em>.&rdquo; Meyer.<\/p>\n<p><em> in part<\/em> ] It is here delicately hinted that the <em> whole<\/em> Corinthian Church did not acknowledge St Paul.<\/p>\n<p><em> we are your rejoicing<\/em> ] Rather, <strong> ground of rejoicing<\/strong>. The word here rendered &lsquo;rejoicing&rsquo; is rendered indifferently &lsquo;boasting,&rsquo; &lsquo;glorying,&rsquo; &lsquo;rejoicing,&rsquo; &lsquo;whereof to glory &lsquo;in the A.V. See <span class='bible'>Rom 4:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 5:6<\/span>, and ch. <span class='bible'>2Co 9:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> even as ye also are ours<\/em> ] See note on <span class='bible'><em> 2Co 1:11<\/em><\/span>. It was, moreover, the special object of the Apostle to remind the Corinthians of the identity of their interests before he proceeded to vindicate himself or to rebuke them. <em> Some<\/em> of them, he says, already recognized this truth. See also next verse. Chrysostom remarks on the humility of the Apostle in thus placing himself on a level with his converts.<\/p>\n<p><em> in the day of the Lord Jesus<\/em> ] See <span class='bible'>1Co 3:13<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 4:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 4:5<\/span> and notes.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>As also ye have acknowledged us &#8211; <\/B>You have had occasion to admit my singleness of aim, and purity of intention and of life by your former acquaintance with me; and you have cheerfully done it. In part (<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"> <\/SPAN><\/span> apo merous). Tyndale renders this: as ye have found us partly. The sense seems to be, as part of you acknowledge; meaning that a portion of the church was ready to concede to him the praise of consistency and uprightness, though there was a faction, or a part that denied it.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>That we are your rejoicing &#8211; <\/B>That we are your joy, and your boasting. That is, you admit me to be an apostle. You regard me as your teacher, and guide. You recognize my authority, and acknowledge the benefits which you have received through me.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Even as ye also are ours &#8211; <\/B>Or, as you will be our rejoicing in the day when the Lord Jesus shall come to gather his people to himself. Then it will be seen that you were saved by our ministry; and then it will be an occasion of abundant and eternal thanksgiving to God that you were converted by our labors. And as you now regard it as a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving that you have such teachers as we are, so shall we regard it as a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving &#8211; as our chief joy &#8211; that we were the instruments of saving such a people. The expression implies that there was mutual confidence, mutual love, and mutual cause of rejoicing. It is well when ministers and people have such confidence in each other, and have occasion to regard their connection as a mutual cause of rejoicing and of <span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"><\/SPAN><\/span> kauchema or boasting.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P>  Verse 14.  <I><B>Have acknowledged us in part<\/B><\/I>]   may signify here not <I>in part<\/I>, but <I>some of you<\/I>; and it is evident, from the distracted state of the Corinthians, and the opposition raised there against the apostle, that it was only <I>a part of them<\/I> that did acknowledge him, and receive and profit by his epistles and advice.<\/P> <P> <\/P> <P>  <I><B>We are your rejoicing<\/B><\/I>, c.]  You boast of <I>us<\/I> as the ministers of Christ through whom ye have believed as we boast of <I>you<\/I> as genuine converts to the Christian faith, and worthy members of the Church of God.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>In part, <\/B>may either refer to persons or things; part of you have so owned and acknowledged us, though others of you have abused us. Or you have <I>in part, <\/I>or at some times, owned us, that you had cause to bless God for us, and to rejoice that God ever sent us to preach the gospel amongst you. And as some have owned us as their joy, or all of you have at some times acknowledged us as such, so you are also <\/P> <P><B>our rejoicing; <\/B>we rejoice tllat God hath made our labour successful to your souls, and I trust, in the day when the Lord Jesus shall come to judge the world, you shall be more our rejoicing. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>14. in part<\/B>In contrast to&#8221;even to the end&#8221;: the testimony <I>of his life<\/I> was notyet completed [THEOPHYLACTand BENGEL]. Rather, &#8220;inpart,&#8221; that is, some of you, not all [GROTIUS,ALFORD]. So in <span class='bible'>2Co 2:5<\/span>;<span class='bible'>Rom 11:25<\/span>. The majority atCorinth had shown a willing compliance with Paul&#8217;s directions in thefirst Epistle: but some were still refractory. Hence arises thedifference of tone in different parts of this Epistle. See<span class='bible'>Introduction.<\/span> <\/P><P>       <B>your rejoicing<\/B>yoursubject of <I>glorying<\/I> or <I>boast.<\/I> &#8220;Are&#8221; (notmerely <I>shall be<\/I>) implies the present recognition of oneanother as a subject of mutual <I>glorying:<\/I> that <I>glorying<\/I>being about to be realized in its fulness &#8220;in the day (of thecoming) of the Lord Jesus.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>As also you have acknowledged us in part<\/strong>,&#8230;. This may refer either to the thing known and acknowledged, namely, the integrity of the apostle&#8217;s conversation, and others; which though they did not know thoroughly and perfectly, yet did in part, and that so far as that they might acquit them from the charge brought against them; or to the persons who knew this, as that there were some in the church of Corinth, a part of them, though not all, who knew and had acknowledged them to be upright and sincere ministers of the word, and had declared that they had reason to rejoice and bless God that ever they heard them: and<\/p>\n<p><strong>that we are your rejoicing<\/strong>: or &#8220;glorying in&#8221;, or &#8220;unto the day of the Lord Jesus&#8221;: when he shall come to judge the world in righteousness, then they should before him, angels and men, rejoice and glory in this, that they had been blessed with such sincere and faithful ministers, who sought not any worldly advantage, but the glory of Christ, and the salvation of souls:<\/p>\n<p><strong>even as<\/strong>, adds the apostle,<\/p>\n<p><strong>ye also are ours<\/strong>; we do now, and so we shall then, rejoice and glory in this, that our labour among you was not in vain, but was blessed for your conversion and edification.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>As also ye did acknowledge us in part <\/B> (<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\">     <\/SPAN><\/span>). Gracious acknowledgment (second aorist active indicative of <span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"><\/SPAN><\/span>) to the original Pauline party (<span class='bible'>1Cor 1:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Cor 3:4<\/span>) that he had seemed to care so little for them. And now in his hour of victory he shows that, if he is their ground of glorying, they are his also (cf. <span class='bible'>1Thess 2:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Phil 2:16<\/span>). <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Robertson&#8217;s Word Pictures in the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P>In part [<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"> ] <\/SPAN><\/span>. Referring to the partial understanding of his character and motives by the Corinthians. <\/P> <P>15 Before [<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\">] <\/SPAN><\/span>. Rather, first of all. Instead of going first to the Macedonians, as he afterward decided. See <span class='bible'>1Co 16:5<\/span>. <\/P> <P>Second benefit (deuteran carin). Benefit is, literally, grace. Not a mere pleasurable experience through Paul &#8216;s visit, but a divine bestowal of grace. Compare <span class='bible'>Rom 1:11<\/span>. Second refers to his original plan to visit Corinth twice, on his way to Macedonia and on his return.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vincent&#8217;s Word Studies in the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>&#8220;And also ye have acknowledged us in part,&#8221;<\/strong> (kathos kai epegnote hemas apo merous) &#8220;as you all also recognized us in part;&#8221; The idea is part of them acknowledged Paul and his missionary helpers as true ministers of God, devoted wholly to his will, but not all did, <span class='bible'>1Co 3:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>&#8220;That we are your rejoicing,&#8221;<\/strong> (hoti kauchema humon esmen) &#8220;Because we are your boasting;&#8221; <span class='bible'>2Co 5:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>&#8220;Even as ye also are ours,&#8221;<\/strong> (kathaper kai humeis hemon) &#8220;Even as ye are also our (object of) boasting;&#8221; The Corinth brethren, won, and or confirmed in the faith of Christ constituted an occasion for Paul&#8217;s rejoicing, Php_2:16; Php_4:1; <span class='bible'>1Th 2:19-20<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>&#8220;In the day of the Lord Jesus,&#8221;<\/strong> (en te hemera tou kuriou hemon lesou) &#8220;in the day of our Lord Jesus;&#8221; Paul was always hasty to remind the brethren that as surely as he was an occasion for their glory or rejoicing, even so they were on occasion for his rejoicing for them in the Lord, in the light of their coming reunion with Jesus Christ, <span class='bible'>Joh 4:36<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 24:42<\/span>; Php_4:1; <span class='bible'>1Co 1:8<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:3.76em'><strong>PLAN CHANGES NOT FICKLENESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 14.  For we are your glorying.  We have briefly adverted to the manner in which it is allowable for saints to glory in God&#8217;s benefits &#8212; when they repose themselves in God alone, and have no other object of aim. Thus it was a ground of pious glorying on the part of Paul, that he had, by his ministry, brought the Corinthians under obedience to Christ; and of the Corinthians, on the other hand, that they had been trained up so faithfully and so virtuously by such an Apostle &#8212; a privilege that had not been allotted to all. This way of glorying in men does not stand in the way of our glorying in God alone. Now he instructs the Corinthians, that it is of the greatest importance for themselves that they should acknowledge him to be a faithful, and not a merely pretended, servant of Christ; because, in the event of their withdrawing from him, they would deprive themselves of the highest glory. In these words he reproves their fickleness, inasmuch as they voluntarily deprived themselves of the highest glory, by listening too readily to the spiteful and envious. <\/p>\n<p> In the day of the Lord  By this I understand the last day, which will put an end to all the fleeting  (272) glories of this world. He means, then, that the glorying of which he is now speaking is not evanescent, as those things are that glitter in the eyes of men, but is abiding and stable, inasmuch as it will remain until the day of Christ. For  then  will Paul enjoy the triumph of the many victories that he had obtained under Christ&#8217;s auspices, and will lead forth in splendor all the nations that have, by means of his ministry, been brought under Christ&#8217;s glorious yoke; and the Church of the Corinthians will glory in having been founded and trained up by the services of so distinguished an Apostle. <\/p>\n<p>  (272) &#8220; Vaines et caduques;&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Empty and fading.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Calvin&#8217;s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(14) <strong>As also ye have acknowledged.<\/strong>The parenthetical clause (better, <em>ye did acknowledge<\/em>) comes in to qualify the fear which had been partly veiled by the hope. They had done him some, though not adequate, justice. The phrase in part may be noted as specially characteristic of the Epistles of this period (<span class='bible'>Rom. 11:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom. 15:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom. 15:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co. 11:18<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co. 12:27<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co. 13:9<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>That we<\/strong> <strong>are your rejoicing . . .<\/strong>Better, <em>a ground of exultation to you, as you are to us.<\/em> The words must be connected with the future rather than the past. I trust that you will one day recognise that you have as much reason to be proud of me as I have to be proud of you. The word for rejoicing, boasting, glorying, &amp;c., is specially characteristic of this period of St. Pauls life, occurring forty-six times in 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans, and only six times in his other Epistles. The day of the Lord Jesus, of His great advent to judge the world (comp. <span class='bible'>Rom. 2:16<\/span>), defines the end to which the previous verse had pointed.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 14<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> In part<\/strong> Either meaning a <strong> part <\/strong> of you <strong> have acknowledged <\/strong> me; or, you have acknowledged as to the part of my life and character that you have thus far seen and understood, although another large <strong> part <\/strong> has needed much explanation and defence; or, you <strong> have<\/strong>, partially but not adequately, <strong> acknowledged<\/strong>. The second we think the real sense. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Your rejoicing<\/strong> Rather, <em> your boast; <\/em> the opposite of <em> shame, <\/em> as <strong> rejoicing <\/strong> is the opposite of sorrow. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Day Jesus<\/strong> Our boasting of each other now and ever will be ratified and completed at the judgment- <strong> day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>2Co 1:14<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>That we are your rejoicing,<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> The Apostle here signifies that part of them who adhered to and owned him as their teacher; in which sense <em>rejoicing, <\/em>or <em>glorying, <\/em>is much used in these epistles to the Corinthians, on occasion of the several partisans boasting, some that they were of Paul, and others that they were of Apollos, &amp;c. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also <em> are<\/em> ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. <strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Ver. 14. <strong> You have acknowledged in part<\/strong> ] <em> q.d.<\/em> You ought to have done it more fully; but you have been carried away, as ye were led by the false apostles. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <span class='bible'>2Co 1:14<\/span> .     .  .  .: <em> as also ye did acknowledge us in part; i.e., some<\/em> of them made this acknowledgment, but not all (<span class='bible'>1Co 3:4<\/span> ).     : <em> that<\/em> (not &ldquo;because&rdquo;) <em> we are your glorying<\/em> ( <em> cf.<\/em> <span class='bible'>2Co 5:12<\/span> ); that is, the Corinthian Church was proud of its connexion with the great Apostle, and still &ldquo;gloried&rdquo; in him.      .  .  .: <em> as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus<\/em> . Lest this assertion of his single-mindedness and integrity should seem to claim any undue superiority to his fellow Christians at Corinth, he hastens to add, parenthetically, with remarkable tact, that if he is their &ldquo;glory&rdquo; so are they his. He constantly thinks thus of his converts; <em> cf., e.g.<\/em> , <span class='bible'>Phi 2:16<\/span> and <span class='bible'>1Th 2:19-20<\/span> .       : &ldquo;A day of the Lord,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Day of the Lord&rdquo; are common expressions in the prophets; <em> cf.<\/em> <span class='bible'>Isa 13:6<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Isa 13:9<\/span> , <span class='bible'>Jer 46:10<\/span> , <span class='bible'>Eze 30:3<\/span> , <span class='bible'>Zec 14:1<\/span> , <span class='bible'>Joe 1:15<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Joe 2:1<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Joe 2:11<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Joe 2:31<\/span> (cited <span class='bible'>Act 2:20<\/span> ), etc. And the phrase is taken up by St. Paul (<span class='bible'>1Th 5:2<\/span> , <span class='bible'>1Co 1:8<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>1Co 5:5<\/span> ; <em> cf.<\/em> <span class='bible'>Phi 1:10<\/span> , <span class='bible'>2Ti 1:12<\/span> ), and is applied to the Second Advent of Christ; <em> cf.<\/em> also <span class='bible'>2Pe 3:10<\/span> , and <span class='bible'>Mat 24:42<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>also ye = ye also. <\/p>\n<p>have. Omit. <\/p>\n<p>in part. Greek. apo merous. A part of you, the faithful ones. <\/p>\n<p>rejoicing = ground of boasting. Greek. kauchema. See Rom 4:2. <\/p>\n<p>the day, &amp;c. See 1Co 5:5. <\/p>\n<p>Jesus. App-98. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Co 1:14.  , in part) The antithesis, even unto the end, is in the preceding verse.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Co 1:14<\/p>\n<p>2Co 1:14 <\/p>\n<p>as also ye did acknowledge us in part.-A portion of the church believed him to be sincere and consistent, though there was a faction that denied it.<\/p>\n<p>that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours,-They had acknowledged him when he first went among them to preach, and then he was honored by them; they gloried in him as a teacher from God, as he gloried in them as the fruit of his apostleship.<\/p>\n<p>in the day of our Lord Jesus.-He would glory in them as the fruits of his labor and the seal of his apostleship. [A similar passage is: For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? For ye are our glory and our joy. (1Th 2:19-20). In both cases our minds are lifted to that great presence which Paul constantly anticipated; and as we stand there our judgments of each other are seen in their true light. No one will rejoice then that he has made evil out of good, that he has cunningly perverted the simple actions of others into evil designs, that he has set the saints at variance; the joy will be for those who have loved and trusted each other, who have borne each others infirmities and labored for their healing. The mutual confidence in all the faithful in Christ will then, after all its trial, have its exceeding great reward.] <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>day of <\/p>\n<p>(See Scofield &#8220;1Co 1:8&#8221;). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>in part: 2Co 2:5, Rom 11:25, 1Co 11:18 <\/p>\n<p>that: 2Co 5:12, 1Co 3:21-23, Phi 1:26,*Gr. <\/p>\n<p>your: That is &#8220;the cause and object of your rejoicing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>even: 2Co 9:2, 1Co 15:31, Phi 2:16,*Gr: Phi 4:1, 1Th 2:19, 1Th 2:20 <\/p>\n<p>in the: 1Co 1:8, Phi 1:6, Phi 1:10, 1Th 3:13, 1Th 5:23 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Co 1:7 &#8211; our 2Co 2:2 &#8211; General 2Co 7:4 &#8211; great 2Co 7:7 &#8211; fervent 2Co 12:15 &#8211; will 2Pe 3:10 &#8211; the day<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Co 1:4. Paul regarded himself and all other Christians who were having persecutions for the sake of righteousness as &#8220;companions in tribulation&#8221; (Rev 1:9). The preceding verse  says that all comfort comes from God, hence he is the One who enabled the apostle to pass his comfort on to others.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Observe here, 1. The great trial which St. Paul met with from the Corinthians, whose spiritual father he was: though he had served them with great faithfulness, yet they did acknowledge him but in part. There was a time when he was high in their esteem. Who but Paul! None but he! but now a great part leave him, and admire others. <\/p>\n<p>Learn hence, What great levity, fickleness, and inconstancy, may be found in good men in general; and what great mutability and changeableness of affection in particular to their ministers and spiritual guides, though never so sincere and faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Although St. Paul, with a laborious diligence, and divine success, had planted and propagated the Christian faith amongst them; yet now not only his person, but his very office, falls under contempt by many of them. None more than ministers do experience this truth, that nothing is so mutable as the mind of man.<\/p>\n<p>Though ministers are the same, and their message the same; though they continue burning and shining lights, though they burn out, and consume life, health, and estate, among and for their people; yet it is only for a season, for an hour, for a short time, at their first coming amongst them, that they rejoice in their light: You have acknowledged us in part.<\/p>\n<p>Observe, 2. That notwithstanding the contempt cast upon St. Paul by some in the church of Corinth, yet there were others among them who did greatly rejoice in him, and bless God for him, and he for them: We are your rejoicing, and ye are ours, as being converted by us; and I trust we shall be a farther joy and mutual rejoicing each to other in the day of our Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Learn hence, What unspeakable rejoicings and joyful congratulations there will be in the day of Christ, between laborious faithful ministers and their believing obedient hearers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord! will the Christian say, this was the blessed instrument, under God, of my happy illumination and conversion; by the blessing of the Spirit upon his ministry, my soul was begotten unto Christ.&#8221; But on the other hand, if we be ignornat or lazy, unskillful or unfaithful, in our office, our people will come in against us as swift witnesses in the day of Christ: and, Lord, what an intolerable aggravation will it be of our misery in hell, to have any of our people thus upbraiding us!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O cruel man! that sawest my soul in danger, but never dealt faithfully and plainly with me; the same time that we spent together in sin and vanity, in sensual mirth and jollity, might have been instrumental to save us both from this place of torment.&#8221; Let ministers consider themselves as witnesses for God, and their people as witnesses for or against them; and under that consideration, so study, preach, and pray; so live, walk, and act, that they may, with this great apostle, take God to record, that they are free from the blood of all men.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. [1Co 3:13 . If my words sound boastful, my conscience justifies me in using them, since I have manifested the holy and sincere life befitting one who is directed of God, and not the life of one who is moved by worldly policy and wisdom, and is void of principle. Such has been my general conduct, and it has been especially so in my dealings with you. Thus the apostle shows himself conscious of the scrutinizing suspicion with which the Corinthians watched all his actions. He knew that to govern such a people he must walk with more than common circumspection. Therefore, with a careful, guarded spirit he had penned his letters to them so that there was nothing in them of doubtful meaning. If we assume, with Conybeare and Howson, that the apostle had been suspected of sending private letters in which he modified the statements of his public epistles, the reading becomes clear and smooth, and runs thus: &#8220;I have written you nothing save what has been read in public and generally acknowledged as authoritatively mine, and I hope you will thus acknowledge my epistles to the end of the world, even as part of you acknowledged me to be an apostle, and gloried in me as your teacher, even as I also gloried in you as disciples, in expectation that I would appear with you before the Lord Jesus (1Th 2:19-20; Phi 2:16). By thus placing himself on a level with his disciples in mutual glorying, the apostle removes every semblance of unseemly self-glorification. But the meaning of the passage is practically the same if we merely understand the apostle as appealing from the false constructions placed upon his letters, to the text of the letters, and as asserting that he wrote no words which justified the ambiguous meaning placed upon them. We shall now be told about these ambiguous words.] <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries (New Testament)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Verse 14 <\/p>\n<p>In part; in some degree.&#8211;Are&#8211;ours; are to be ours. The apostle expresses a similar sentiment, in another of his Epistles. (1 Thessalonians 2:19.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Abbott&#8217;s Illustrated New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your {m} rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the {n} day of the Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>(m) Paul&#8217;s rejoicing in the Lord was that he had won the Corinthians: and they themselves rejoiced that such an apostle was their instructor, and taught them so purely and sincerely.<\/p>\n<p>(n) When he will sit as judge.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Even though Paul&rsquo;s correspondence with them had been straightforward, they had not grasped the greatness of his love for them and how proud he was of them (1Co 4:14; cf. 1Th 2:19-20). They had a legitimate right to be proud of Paul as their spiritual father, as he had a right to be proud of them as his spiritual children (1Co 4:15).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:36pt\">&quot;This affirmation of affection not only corroborates the complete genuineness of his own attitude towards them, but attests his confidence regarding the authenticity of their profession of faith in the Gospel.&quot;<span style=\"color:#808080\"> [Note: Hughes, p. 29.] <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The day of our Lord Jesus&quot; is the day when their joy would be complete, namely, when they saw the Lord and stood before Him (2Co 5:10-11; cf. Php 2:16).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 14. As also ] St Paul connects &ldquo;the future for which he hopes, with the past of which he knows.&rdquo; Meyer. in part ] It is here delicately hinted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-corinthians-114\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Corinthians 1:14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}