2 Corinthians 2:14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:5-17

2. The treatment of the offender and the result of the severe letter 2:5-17Paul in this pericope explained his perspective on the encouraging and discouraging experiences of his recent ministry. He did so to let the Corinthians know how he felt about them and to encourage his readers to adopt his attitude toward ministry. "Ministry" was a favorite term of Paul’s. He used it 51 times in its verb and noun forms, and 20 of these occur in 2 Corinthians. Its six appearances in chapters 8 and 9 refer... 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:14

This outburst of praise sprang from Paul’s deep-seated conviction that God’s working in and through him, regardless of the appearance of the set-back just mentioned, proceeded on triumphantly. This viewpoint is one of the great emphases of this epistle. Jesus Christ is without exception continuing to advance in His work. He is building His church and the gates of hell are not prevailing against it (Matthew 16:18). Because Paul and the Corinthians were in Christ they shared in this triumph."The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:14-17

Thanksgiving for a share in Christ’s triumph 2:14-17"The passage that follows (2 Corinthians 2:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:4) is the longest coherent section within 2 Corinthians and is, arguably, the centerpiece of the entire letter. Nonetheless, it is not freestanding, but continuous with what precedes it." [Note: Barnett, p. 137. See also Carson and Moo, pp. 436-38.] Paul’s recollection of his happy reunion with Titus in Macedonia and the good news his friend brought from Corinth triggered the... 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 2:14

(14) Now thanks be unto God.—The apparent abruptness of this burst of thanksgiving is at first somewhat startling. We have to find its source, not in what the Apostle had written or spoken, but in what was passing through his memory. He had met Titus, and that disciple had been as a courier bringing tidings of a victory. The love of God had won another triumph.Causeth us to triumph.—Better, who always leads us in His triumph. There is absolutely no authority for the factitive meaning given to... 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 2:14

2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the {k} savour of his knowledge by us in every place.(k) He alludes to the anointing of the priests, and the incense of the sacrifices. read more

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