II Corinthians

1:4. “Tribulatio” is a ‘Roman threshing-instrument, used to separate the wheat from the chaff.

10. Deliverance, past, present, and future.

12. Conscience is the voice of the soul. The passions

are the voice of the body.

Conscience is an anchor. Terrible it is, but true, that like the anchor, conscience may be carried away.

2: 11. Gabriel gave Daniel “skill and understanding” in the time of his perplexity. Dan. 9: 22.

3: 3. We cannot all be “apostles,” but we ought to be “epistles” — love-letters from Jesus to the world. “Illuminated Texts.”

16. Faith precedes enlightenment.

4: 17. Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The hotter the fire, the purer the gold.

5: V. 1. A new body, — resulting in —

Sanctification, v. 2;

Separation, v. 8;

Service, v. 9;

Suffering, v. 4; ’

Surrender, v. 4.
V. 7. A new walk.
V. 15. A now life.
V. 17. A new nature.
V. 18. A new attitude.
V. 21. A new standing.

2. Homesick for heaven.” We groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.”

8. When an old martyr laid his head on the block, one said to him, ‘Shut thine eyes a little and thou shalt see God.”

10. As you live, you ’11 die; and as you die, you ’11 live forever.

5: 14. If the love of God sets us to work, the God of love

will find us the wages.

20. “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ.” An

ambassador —

(1) Is always sent to a foreign land,

(2) With which we are at peace.

(3) He has to go to that country, and not let

them come to him.

(4) They judge of his country by his example.

(5) He has a message.

21. “He made him to be sin who knew no sin” — made

to be «<’», not a sinner.

6: 4-10. Sevenfold passive suffering.

Sevenfold active self-denial.
Sevenfold means of enduring labor.
Sevenfold result.

10. Outward trouble — inward joy.

The backslider in heart, even amid outward joy,

has inward sorrow. Prov. 14: 13, 14.
Paul’s testimony before the Church.

7:10. “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”

Godly sorrow (i. e., after the mind of God), is Godward and God-wrought.

Sorrow of the world is like Balaam’s, when he said, “I have sinned,” yet continued to sin.

9: 7. “God loveth a cheerful giver.” “lean give so much without feeling it.” Is that right?

10: 10. Love will stammer rather than be dumb

11 :*14. Satan fashioneth himself into —

An angel of light. 2 Tor. 11: 14.
A roaring lion. 1 Peter 5: 8.
A beguiling serpent. Gen. 3: 3.

12: 7. God many times places a thorn in the flesh to prick

the bladder of pride.

There is no gathering a rose without a thorn, until we get to Beulah land.

9. Tn the divine partnership we contribute weakness. “With a loving acceptance of God’s will comes peace.

13: 5. Contemplation is a perspective-glass to see our Saviour in. Examination is a looking-glass to see ourselves by.