Category: Religion/Spirituality
the change on which he congratulates himself in ii. 5 ff. and vii. 8 ff. It is obvious that this whole combination is hypothetical; and hence, though many have been attracted by it, it appears with an infinite variety of detail. It is obvious also that the grounds on which it...
αὐτὴν καὶ μὴ τηρήσαντες ὑγιῆ. This figure of _breaking the seal_, by falling into sin and losing what baptism confers, is common. Sometimes it is varied: "Keep the flesh pure, κ...
5. ii. 10); and it was a testimony to the saints in Palestine of the loveof the Gentile brethren in Christ. The fact that Paul interested himself so much in this collection, destined as it was for Jerusalem, proves that he distinguished broadly betwe...
4. v. 10, especially his vindication of the absolute purity of hismotives, furnish them, if they choose to take it so, with grounds of counter-boasting, far deeper and more spiritual than those of his adversaries. For _he_ boasts, not "in appe...
2. vi. 9 that Paul's sufferings had been interpreted at Corinth as a divinechastisement; in opposition to this the Apostle shows that they are divinely intended to profit the Corinthians. Hence the opening of the letter is not a simple outpouring of hi...
7. xii. 14, "This is the third time I am ready to come to you," and laboursunder the same ambiguity; it is perhaps more natural to suppose that Paul had actually been twice in Corinth (and there are independent reasons for this opinion), but the words...
1. ii. 4 refers--a letter which was carried by Titus, and which producedthe change on which he congratulates himself in ii. 5 ff. and vii. 8 ff. It is obvious that this whole combination is hypothetical; and hence, though many have been attracted by...
6. v. 2 of the First Epistle he sums up his condemnation of the morallaxity of the Church in the presence of such evils in the words: _Ye did not mourn_. He himself will not be able to avoid mourning: his heart grows heavy within him as he thinks...