3 23. & 10.33 m 1 Cor. 9. n Gen. 1.3. 19. ch.1.24. + Gr. is he who hath. 6 For God," who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, † hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen o 2 Pet. 1. 19. vessels, 'that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. p ver. 4i Pet. 2. 9. q ch. 5. 1. 8 We are 'troubled on every side, yet 1 Cor. 25 not distressed; we are perplexed, but I not in despair; ch. 12. 9. s ch. 7. 5Or, not altogether without help, or, means. t Ps. 37-24 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 "Always bearing about in the body 1 Cor. 15. the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the Callife also of Jesus might be made manifest 17. Phil. 3 in our body. 31. 9. 10. Gal. 6. His hope of eternal glory. | according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; Anno DOMINI 60. b Ps. 116. 10. 1 Cor. 6. 14. 14 Knowing that he which raised up Rom. 8. 11. the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not; though our outward man perish, yet inward man is renewed day by day. but d 1 Cor. 3. Col. 1. 24. Tim. 2.10. 21. ch. 1.6. e ch. 1. 11. the Rom. 7.22. Eph. 3. 16. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more Rom. 8. 18. exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 1 Pet. 1. 6. & 5. 10. h Rom. 8. Hebr. 11. 1. 24. ch.5.7. ch. 4. 7. 14. NOR we know that if our earthly a Job 4. 19. house of this tabernacle were dis- 2 Pet. 1. 13, solved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly de- bRom. 8.23. siring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit, 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 25 ch.4.18 8 We are confident, I say, and will-Cor. 13. 12. ing rather to be absent from the body, h Phil. 1.23. and to be present with the Lord. i Matt. 25. 31, 32. Rom. k Rom. 2.6. Eph. 6. 8. 10 'For we must all appear before the 14.10. judgment seat of Christ; that every one Gal. 6. 7 may receive the things done in his body, Col. 3. 24. according to that he hath done, whether 25 Rev. 22. it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are m 12. 1 Job 31. 23. Hebr. 10. 31. Jude 23 ch.4.2. 15. d Isai. 49. 8. e Rom. 14. 13. 1 Cor. 9. 12. & 10. 32. ↑ Gr. com. mending. ch. 4. 2. CHAP. VI. 1 That he hath approved himself a faithful WE Paul's faithfulness in the s 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, || in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, h Det 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness 4 on the right hand and on the left, 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil La report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; m 9 As unknown, and yet well known; !+ 'as dying, and, behold, we live; "as chastened, and not killed; 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; « sa as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye **** are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye 14 also enlarged. t 14' Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? 3 L and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with sa Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, fl and touch not the unclean thing; and 15 will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, a saith the Lord Almighty. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee H dearly beloved, let us cleanse our-3-3 AVING therefore these promises, is i Godly sorrow described. CHAP. VIII. 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you : 'I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. Paul exhorteth to liberality. Anno 60. grity and willingness of Titus, and those DOMINI OREOVER, brethren, we do you For, when we were come into Ma-M to wit of the grace of God bestow cedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth ed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their + liberality. a Mark 12. 44. + Gr. sim- 8 For though I made you sorry with a ch. 2.4. letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Or, acFording to God. 2 Sam. 12. 3. Matt. 26. 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For "godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: Prov. 17. but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. och. 2. 4. Rom. 15. Gr. bowels, b. 6. 12. ch. 2.9. hil. 2. 12. 2 Thess. 3. Philem. .21. 12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. 15 And his inward affection is more 16 I rejoice therefore that I have con- 1 He stirreth them up to a liberal contribution 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 21 'Providing for honest things, not 8. Pet. 2. only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 12. ↑ Or, he hath. 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you. 23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired Phil. 2. 25. of, they are 'the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ. 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, ch. 7. 14 and of our boasting on your behalf. CHAP. IX. & 9.2. 3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. DOYA 10 Now he that 'ministereth seed to s the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your "righteousness ;) 11 Being enriched in every thing to allbountifulness, "which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. + Gr. $415 12 For the administration of this ser- a vice not only supplieth the want of the ch saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they 'glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding 'grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. CHAP. X. Against the false apostles, who disgraced P Nthe meekness and gentleness of OW I Paul myself beseech you by m b Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 10 2 But I beseech you, that I may not per be bold when I am present with that con- C fidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to "the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh : 1 The 18. 1 Tm L 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty ||through God •TA 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to to the pulling down of strong holds ;) 3 exhort the brethren, that they would 5 Casting down imaginations, and f before unto you, and make up beforehand every high thing that exalteth itself as your+bounty, whereof ye had notice be- against the knowledge of God, and bring- 10,96 1 Sam. 25. fore, that the same might be ready, as a mat-ing into captivity every thought to the Paul taxeth the false apostles. Anno DOMINI 60. + Gr. saith he. q 1 Cor. 2.3, ch. 19.5, 7, CHAP. XI. Anno Paul's commendation of himself. 10 For his letters, † say they, are weighty 13. ri Cor. 1. 17. 11. 6 sch. 3. 1. & 5. 12. 12 'For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, Or, under are not wise. stand it not. t ver. 15. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to Or, line. the measure of the || rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 10. & 4.15. & 9. 1. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached 1 Cor.3.5 not unto you: "for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. 17 'But he that glorieth, let him glory 1 Cor. 1.31. in the Lord. z Prov. 7.2. 18 For not he that commendeth hima Rom. 2.29 self is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. 1 Cor. 4.5. ver. 16. ch. 5. 13. Or, ye do brar with me. CHAP. XI. DOMINI 5 For I suppose I was not a whit be- or, with hind the very chiefest apostles. m we have me. i 1 Cor. 15- 6 But though I be rude in speech, 1 Eph. 3. 4. & 5.11. & 12 7 Have I committed an offence "in m ch. 4. 2. 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages 9 And when I was present with you, 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, 'no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, "that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself 1. Rev. 2. 2. is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the "ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool || receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 1 Out of his jealousy over the Corinthians, z Gal. 1. 8. a ch. 3.9. b c ver. 1. Phil. 3. 19. ch. 12. 6, 11. Or, suffer, 20 For ye suffer, "if a man bring you & 49 into bondage, if a man devour you, if a ye could bear with deed || bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with b Gal.4.17, godly jealousy: for I have espoused you Hos. 2. 19, to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 13. 20. 1.5 d 1 Cor. 4. e Col. 1. 28. d 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as 'the 13 serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. f Gen. 3. John 8. 44. Eph. 6. 24 1.2.4, 8, 18. 1 Tim. 1.. 3. & 4. 1. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth anfebr. 13.9. other Jesus, whom we have not preached, Pet. 3. 17. or if ye receive another spirit, which ye > Gal 1.7,8. have not received, or another gospel, 941 h |