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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:1

PAUL'S SECOND LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS2 COR. 1After the salutation (2 Corinthians 1:1-2), this chapter is wholly given to Paul's affirmation of his absolute sincerity and integrity. As Hughes said, "The import of 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 seems to have been missed by many commentators."[1] In the very forefront of Paul's defense regarding his coming to Corinth stands this amazing record of his affliction which had made it IMPOSSIBLE for him to come. Therefore, this record of that dreadful happening... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:2

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Grace to you and peace ... Broomall has an excellent comment on this, as follows:In the protocol of salvation, recognized even in a salutation, GRACE always precedes PEACE. The former is the basis and the foundation of the latter. Therefore, the order cannot be changed. No man can have peace who has not previously experienced divine grace.[9]God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ... "It should be noticed that the deity of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ... This is not a denial of the deity of Christ implied in the previous verse; but it brings to view the incarnation, during which the sonship of our Lord was predominant.Father of mercies ... It is the mercy of God, more than any other attribute, which has captured the imagination of mankind. Every chapter in the Koran, except one, begins with the words, "In the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:4

Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.Affliction ... Here is introduced the word which flies like a banner over the entire epistle. The word with its synonym "suffering" occurs eight times in this paragraph.That we may be able to comfort ... Inherent in Paul's statement here is the fact that only those who have suffered are able to comfort others. Also, it is God... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:5

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.The sufferings of Christ ... These may not be understood as the usual hardships and tribulations of life, but as sufferings, oppositions, threatenings and dangers resulting directly from the sufferer's engagement in the service of the Lord. Christ promised his apostles that they would suffer terrible persecutions in the course of their ministry; and Paul certainly sustained his share of them, and... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:6

But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.For your comfort and salvation ... All of the hardships endured by the apostle were for the sake of the eternal salvation of his converts. This is the motivation which even yet supplies the energy for many faithful ministries of the gospel. Whatever earthly hardships and persecutions attend the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:7

And our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.This says that all sufferings received in the service of Christ are also certain to receive the comfort of Christ, the sufferings and the comfort being inseparably linked together. "We suffer with him, that we may be glorified with him" (Romans 8:17). "If we endure, we shall also reign with him" (2 Timothy 2:12). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:1

2 Corinthians 1:1. Timothy our brother,— That is, either in the common faith, (see Rom 1:13 and 1 Corinthians 16:13.) or, brother in the work of the ministry. See Romans 16:21. St. Paul may be supposed to have given Timothy the title of brother here, in this peculiar connection, for dignity's sake, to procure him a reputation above his age among the Corinthians, to whom he had before sent him with some kind of authority to rectify their disorders. Timothy was but a young man when St. Paul wrote... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3

2 Corinthians 1:3. Blessed be God— St. Paul begins with justifying his former letter to them which had afflicted them, (see ch. 2 Corinthians 7:7-8.) by telling them that he thanks God for his deliverance out of his afflictions, because it enables him to comfort them, by the exampleboth of his affliction and deliverance, acknowledging the obligation that he had to them and others, for their prayers, and for their thanks for his deliverance; which he presumes they could not but put up for him,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:4

2 Corinthians 1:4. Who comforteth us— It is certain that the mention of these experiences must have had a powerful tendency to conciliate the regard of the Corinthians to St. Paul; and such an introduction to his epistle as the whole of this before us, could not but incline them strongly in his favour. Some think that the last clause of this verse refers plainly to the comfort which the repentance of the incestuous person gave St. Paul, after the affliction that he had endured on his account.... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:7

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:4

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