Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 2:3

Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 2:3 - 2:3

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 2:3 - 2:3

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2:2 - 2:2
2:3 - 2:3
2:4 - 2:4
2:5 - 2:5
2:6 - 2:6
2:7 - 2:7
2:8 - 2:8
2:9 - 2:9
2:10 - 2:10
2:11 - 2:11
2:12 - 2:12
2:13 - 2:13
2:14 - 2:14
2:15 - 2:15
2:16 - 2:16

I was with you (egenomēn pros humas). Rather, “I came to you” (not ēn, was). “I not only eschewed all affectation of cleverness or grandiloquence, but I went to the opposite extreme of diffidence and nervous self-effacement” (Robertson and Plummer). Paul had been in prison in Philippi, driven out of Thessalonica and Beroea, politely bowed out of Athens. It is a human touch to see this shrinking as he faced the hard conditions in Corinth. It is a common feeling of the most effective preachers. Cool complacency is not the mood of the finest preaching. See phobos (fear) and tromos (trembling) combined in 2Co 7:15; Phi 2:12; Eph 6:5.