Teks -- 2 Corinthians 9:3 (NET)

9:3 But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 2Co 9:3 - I sent

I sent ( epempsa ).

Not literary plural with this epistolary aorist as in 18, 22.

Robertson: 2Co 9:3 - That ye may be prepared

That ye may be prepared ( hina pareskeuasmenoi ēte ).

Perfect passive subjunctive in the final clause, "that ye may really be prepared,""as I said"(kathōs elegon ) and not just say that ye are prepared. Paul’ s very syntax tells against them.

Wesley: 2Co 9:3

I have sent the above mentioned brethren before me.

JFB: 2Co 9:3 - have I sent

We should say, "I send"; whereas the ancients put it in the past, the time which it would be by the time that the letter arrived.

JFB: 2Co 9:3 - the brethren

(2Co 8:18, 2Co 8:22) --Titus and the two others.

JFB: 2Co 9:3 - should be in vain in this behalf

"should be proved futile in this particular," however true in general (2Co 7:4). A tacit compliment, softening the sharp monition.

JFB: 2Co 9:3 - as I said

As I was saying (2Co 9:2).

Clarke: 2Co 9:3 - Yet have I sent the brethren

Yet have I sent the brethren - Titus and his companions, mentioned in the preceding chapter

Clarke: 2Co 9:3 - That, as I said, ye may be ready

That, as I said, ye may be ready - And he wished them to be ready, that they might preserve the good character he had given them: this was for their honor; and if they did not take care to do so, he might be reputed a liar; and thus both they and himself be ashamed before the Macedonians, should any of them at this time accompany him to Corinth.

Calvin: 2Co 9:3 - But I have sent the brethren

3.But I have sent the brethren He now brings forward the reason — why it is that, while entertaining a favorable opinion as to their willingness, he, nevertheless, sets himself carefully to exhort them. “I consult,” says he, “my own good name and yours; for while I promised in your name, we would, both of us in common, incur disgrace, if words and deeds did not correspond. Hence you ought to take my fears in good part.”

TSK: 2Co 9:3 - have // ye may

have : 2Co 9:4, 2Co 7:14, 2Co 8:6, 2Co 8:17-24

ye may : 2Co 9:5; 1Co 16:1-4; Tit 3:1

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Co 9:3 - our boasting in vain on this behalf

I did not send the brethren so much to move you to this work, or quicken you to it, for you yourselves purposed it a year ago, and showed a forwardness in it; the motion proceeded from yourselves, and you showed a readiness to it, which gave me occasion to boast of you to the churches of Macedonia; but I thought you might forget it, and I would not have

our boasting in vain on this behalf And besides, I would have the work done, that your alms might not be to gather when I come, (as he had said, 1Co 16:2 ), but might be in a readiness to be taken and carried away; for that is signified here by being

ready not that readiness of mind of which he had before spoken, and which he had before mentioned as what he had found in them.

Haydock: 2Co 9:3

Titus, and two others.

Gill: 2Co 9:3 - Yet have I sent the brethren // lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf // that as I said ye may be ready

Yet have I sent the brethren,.... Titus, and the other two mentioned in the foregoing chapter: one manuscript reads, "we have sent"; and the Ethiopic version, "they have sent", that is, the Macedonians; but the common reading is best. It might be objected, that since the apostle knew the forwardness of their minds, how ready they were a year ago, and had boasted so much of their liberality, that it must be unnecessary to send the brethren to them, to stir them up to this work; which objection is prevented by observing the reason of his sending them:

lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf: or, "in this part", in this particular thing, על הדא צבותא, "concerning this business", or affair of beneficence to the poor, as the Syriac version renders it. He had boasted of them with respect to other things besides this; but he was chiefly concerned, knowing the frailty and changeableness of human nature, and how possible it was that their forwardness might abate, and they grow cold and indifferent to such service, lest his glorying of them should be in vain in this particular instance; wherefore he sent the brethren to put them on, that as they had begun they would finish:

that as I said ye may be ready, That as he had said to the Macedonians, that they were ready in mind, it might appear to be so; or as he had ordered them in his former epistle, they might be actually ready; have their collection ready made, so that there might be no gathering when he came.