 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...more of our power, which the Lord has given us for your edification, and not for your destruction. That I may not seem, as if I would terrify you by letters; (for his letters, says one, are indeed weighty and strong; but his bodily presence weak, and his speech contemptible:)... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 432 pages
...persona : " Having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled; for though I should boast somewhat more of our authority...; that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by lettere."f And he again puts them in mind of it at the close of his epistle : " I told you before,... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 428 pages
...persons : " Having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled ; for though I should boast somewhat more of our authority...us for edification, and not for your destruction) I fihould not be ashamed ; that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters."! And he again puts... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1836 - 480 pages
...epistles which Paul ever addressed to tne Corinthians.1 2. In 2 Cor. x. 9 — 11. we read as follows : That I may not seem as if I would terrify you BY LETTERS. For his LETTERS, say they, are welgltty and powerful, but hit bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. Let such an one... | |
 | James Scholefield - 1836 - 136 pages
...comma, at the end of v. 9. and then including v. 10. in a parenthesis, that the connexion may be: But, that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters, \_rny letters, it should be,] (For his letters, say they, &c.) Let such an one, &c. — The common... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 1062 pages
...thrown dou-n, and demolished ; the unlit are battered into breaches ; and the besieging 1335 rity, UC 809. Anno Imp. Nero. nis Ces. 3. you not, that ye come together not for s 1 should not be ashamed : 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his... | |
 | 1836 - 592 pages
...people, at the same time, by acts of tenderness, &c. 2 Cor. x. 8. " For though I should boast of my authority, (which the LORD hath given us for edification, and not for destruction,) I should not be ashamed." It is necessary, sometimes, to extol the dignity of our office.... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 328 pages
...Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority,...Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your dej struction, I should not be ashamed. EPH. 3: 7. Whereof I was made ja minister according to the... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, p.nd not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed. EPH. 8: 7. Whereof I was made a minister according... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 624 pages
...he hath not, neither can have, more right in Christ, nor more relation to him, than we have. X. 9. That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. X. 10. For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his... | |
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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given [us] for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 
