Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 5:9 - 5:9

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Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 5:9 - 5:9


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We make it our aim (philotimoumetha). Old and common verb, present middle, from philotimos (philos, timē, fond of honour), to act from love of honour, to be ambitious in the good sense (1Th 4:11; 2Co 5:9; Rom 15:20). The Latin ambitio has a bad sense from ambire, to go both ways to gain one’s point.

To be well-pleasing to him (euarestoi autōi einai). Late adjective that shows Paul’s loyalty to Christ, his Captain. Found in several inscriptions in the Koiné[28928]š period (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 214; Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary).