Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:11 - 5:11
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
2Co 5:11. [28]Πείθομεν, we persuade) We bear ourselves so, by acting as well with vehemence, as also with sobriety [“Whether we be beside ourselves,-or whether we be sober”] 2Co 5:13, that men, unless they be unwilling, may be able to give us their approbation. Comp. what he says on conscience presently after, and at 2Co 4:2.-Πείθειν, ἀναγκάζειν are opposed; see at Chrysost. de Sacer, p. 396, 392, 393.-πεφανερώμεθα, we are made manifest) we show and bear ourselves as persons manifest [to God and in your consciences]. Those, who have this character, may be made manifest without terror in the judgment, [φανερωθῆναι], 2Co 5:10.-ἐλπίζω, I hope) To have been made manifest is past, whereas hope refers to a thing future. Paul either hopes for the fruit of the manifestation, which has been already made; or else hopes, that the manifestation itself will still take place.-συνειδήσεσιν, in your consciences) The plural gives greater weight. [It sometimes happens, that a man may be made manifest to the conscience even of such, as attempt to conceal the fact.-V. g.]
[28] Τὸν φόβον, the terror) Ecc 12:13.-V. g.-ἀνθρώπους, men). By many the things which God Himself does are not approved; and how can His servants be approved by any with regard to those things which they do? What is the counsel which His servants give [πείθομεν]? Thou hearest, reader, in this very passage.-V. g.