A60194:589
A learned commentary or exposition
A learned commentary or exposition: upon the first chapter of the second Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians Being the substance of many sermons formerly preached at Gray's-Inn, London, by that reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Sometimes Master of Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher to that honourable society. Published for the public good and benefit of the Church of Christ. By Tho. Manton, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel at Stoke-Newington, near London.A learned commentary or exposition: upon the first chapter of the second Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians Being the substance of many sermons formerly preached at Grayes-Inne, London, by that reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Sometimes Master of Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher to that honourable society. Published for the publick good and benefit of the Church of Christ. By Tho. Manton, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel at Stoake-Newington, near London.
London: printed by J.L. for N.B., 1655
A COMMENTARY upon the first CHAPTER of the second Epistle of S. PAU… › Commentary on verse 6
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To go on. It is for your consolation and salvation.
To goe on. It is for your consolation and salvation.
Whether we be afflicted, or whether we be comforted, all is for your consolation and salvation. I will not trouble you here with the diverse readings of copies, some Greek copies want the word salvation, but the most that the translations follow, have both consolation and salvation: some have consolation and salvation in the first, but they repeat it not in the second. Whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation, but because the more current have both, therefore we will join both, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Whether we be afflicted, or whether we be comforted, all is for your consolation and salvation. I will not trouble you here with the diverse readings of copies, some Greek copies want the word salvation, but the most that the translations follow, have both consolation and salvation: some have consolation and salvation in the first, but they repeat it not in the second. Whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation, but because the more current have both, therefore we will ioyn both, it is for your consolation and salvation.
For huper in the Greek it hath a double force, it signifies either to merit, hupon, to procure, and merit salvation, and so we do not understand it, or huper for your good, a final cause, it includes either a meritorious deserving cause, or a final cause, Whether I be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, not by merit and desert; so Christs suffering was, but to help it forward, in the execution of it.
For huper in the Greek it hath a double force, it signifies either to merit, hupon, to procure, and merit salvation, and so we doe not understand it, or huper for your good, a finall cause, it includes either a meritorious deserving cause, or a finall cause, Whether I be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, not by merit and desert; so Christs suffering was, but to help it forward, in the execution of it.