Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:5 - 1:5
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
2Co_1:5. Ground assigned for the ἧς παρακαλούμεθα αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τ . Θεοῦ .
περισσεύει εἰς ἡμᾶς ] is abundant in relation to us, i.e. it is imparted to us above measure, in a very high degree. Comp. Rom_5:15.
τὰ παθήματα τοῦ Χριστοῦ ] are not the sufferings for Christ’s sake (so Pelagius and most), which cannot be expressed by the simple genitive, but the sufferings of Christ (Winer, Billroth, Olshausen, Neander, Ewald, Hofmann), in so far as every one who suffers for the gospel suffers the same in category as Christ suffered. Comp. Mat_20:22; Php_3:10; Col_1:24; Heb_13:13; 1Pe_4:13. See also on Rom_8:17. Hence Cornelius a Lapide, Leun, and Rückert render correctly in substance: “quales passus est Christus.” But Chrysostom, Theophylact, Oecumenius, Beza, Calovius, and others are wrong, who render: “the sufferings, which Christ endures in His members;” comp. de Wette and Osiander. For the conception of a Christ continuing to suffer in His members is nowhere found in the N. T., not even in Act_9:4, and is contrary to the idea of His exaltation. See on Col_1:24.
διὰ τοῦ Χ .] through His indwelling by means of the Spirit. See Rom_8:9-10; Eph_3:17; Col_1:29, al.