The Second Epistle to the Corinthianss (40)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of God. Chrysostom. See also Bp Wordsworth's note. Cf. Rom. i. 17, iii. 22, v. 19, x. 3; 1 Cor. i. 30. Ch. VI. 1--10. How God's Ministers Carry On This Work Of Reconciliation. 1. We then, as workers together with him Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 9, which, together with the context here, shews that our translators, following the Geneva Version, rightly supply 'with Him' here. The earlier translations render more literally. Wiclif, helpinge. Tyndale, as helpers. beseech you Better with the earlier versions exhort (monesten, Wiclif). See note on ch. i. 3, v. 20. that ye receive not the grace of God in vain i.e. that ye make not His kindness in being reconciled to you through Jesus Christ useless by neglecting to walk according to the new life He hath given you in Him (ch. v. 17). That even the new life itself may be so received as to make I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salva 3 tion.) Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be 4 not blamed: but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in neces its reception useless is clear from the words 'Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away.' John xv. 2. For lest they should think that believing on Him that calleth is itself reconciliation, he adds these words, requiring the earnestness which respects the life. Chrysostom. 2. For he saith In Isai. xlix. 8. The passage follows the LXX. translation. I have heard thee in a time accepted The words in the original refer to Christ. Here, however, they are applied to His Covenant people, united to Him by faith and the communication of His Nature, and therefore naturally entitled to...