...Motes'* TEXT. IV. I Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have feceived mercy, we faint not : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,...commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God. PARAPHRASE. but with open countenances, as mirrours, reflecting the glory of the Lord,...

...and purity of the gospel, and not to mix and sophisticate it. Hence it is said, 2 Cor. ivi 2; k We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not...commending Ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.' And says Paul, 2 Cor. ii. 17. ' We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God ;...

...corrupt the word of God ; but as of smcerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. Not handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation...commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Our exhortation is not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile ; but as we are allowed...

...he was engaged : which subject he fetches up again almost in the words with which he had left it ; " therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not." The sentence which he had before been going on with, and in which he had been interrupted by the veil,...

...life, and the worship of God in spirit and in truth — is tho character of the apostolic procedure ; " not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of...commending ourselves to every man's conscience in tlie sight of God." Look at the tenor of the entire Epistle to the Golatians, to discourage Ritualism...

...Christ. 2 Cor iv. 2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation...commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. a \ Thess. ii. 4. But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even...

...who may be truly called a preacher of righteousness, will not be unacceptable to any reader who " has renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking...craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully.''! " Nothing," he says, " hath done more mischief in the world, hath made Christians more lazy and secure,...

...sincerity, but as of God, in NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION OF the sight of God, speak we in Christ Jesus." " Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have...commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." He could farther attest to his converts, who were competent to judge of his fidelity,...

...subservient to their rightly dividing the word of truth, to glorify the God of truth, and by renouncing the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,...God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth, they will commend themselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. — In addition to this...

...Corinthians the liberty and simplicity of that system of which he was a minister — ' therefore (says he) seeing we have this ministry, as we have received...but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty — nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestations of the truth — commend* ing ourselves...