2 Corinthians 4:1-15

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:11

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.For we who yet live - Who are not yet killed for the testimony of Jesus.Are always delivered unto death — Are perpetually in the very jaws of destruction; which we willingly submit to, that we may "obtain a better resurrection." read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:12

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.So then death worketh in us, but life in you — You live in peace; we die daily.Yet — Living or dying, so long as we believe, we cannot but speak. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:13

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;Having the same spirit of faith — Which animated the saints of old; David, in particular, when he said, I believed, and therefore have I spoken - That is, I trusted in God, and therefore he hath put this song of praise in my mouth.We also speak — We preach the gospel, even in the midst of affliction and death, because we believe that God will raise us up... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Corinthians 4:15

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.For all things — Whether adverse or prosperous.Are for your sakes — For the profit of all that believe, as well as all that preach.That the overflowing grace — Which continues you alive both in soul and body. Might abound yet more through the thanksgiving of many - For thanksgiving invites more: abundant grace. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:1

1. This ministry The ministry of ever-increasing glory just described, shed from the image of Christ as beaming from the gospel. Faint not We falter not from timidity before the sons of the letter, the Corinthian Jew-Christians, upon whose heart still rests the vail. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:2

2. Hidden things of dishonesty Dishonesty is here the old English word for dishonour or shame; and this whole phrase means concealed deeds of shame. It refers not to obscene practices, but either to secret partisan managements imputed to Paul, or, more probably, to the methods by which the Jerusalem party obtained a foothold in the Corinthian Church. Paul’s unvailed gospel is too open and above-board for such secrecies. Craftiness Unscrupulousness; the conduct of a party capable of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:3

3. Hid It is a marked defect that our translators failed to preserve the exact sense of this word, which is vailed, and so have lost the connexion for the English reader. Paul’s whole stress has been, (2 Corinthians 3:7-18,) that while the old covenant to which the Judaists hung so pertinaciously was a vailed one, and a vail is on the Jews’ heart in reading it, our gospel is an unvailed outbeaming of the truth and of the glorious face of Jesus the Messiah. But, he now says, if our... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:4

4. Blinded is aoristic, and would seem to refer specially to the time when Jesus was personally visible to men on earth. The perishing things would, in the specific case of the Judaists, be the Mosaic ritual and traditions, through adhering to which Christ is either rejected or reduced to mere humanity. The same process, however, of blindness from the god of this world, is constantly recurring from perishing mundane things of every kind. God of this world It is hardly wonderful that... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:5

5. Preach not ourselves Literally, Proclaim not ourselves. The professed party of Christ might, in fact, think so little of Christ as to have ample room for proclaiming themselves; but Paul’s ideal of Christ left no room for any rival or substitute. Christ is the Lord, and we are servants. For Jesus’ sake On his account, and in order to the extension of his gospel. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:6

6. For To assign the reason why we are ready thus to humble ourselves, God has wrought in our hearts an illumination as wonderful as his first speaking mundane light into existence. Out of darkness, such as was once in our hearts. An allusion to Genesis 1:3. Shined… God Literally, God hath shined into our heart even to a radiation ( into our hearts) of the knowledge of the glory of God. And that radiation into our hearts of the knowledge of the glory of God comes from the face... read more

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