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1 Corinthians 2:3

I was with you (egenomhn prov umav). Rather, "I came to you" (not hn, was). "I not only eschewed all affectation of cleverness or grandiloquence, but I went to the opposite extreme of diffidence and nervous self-effacement" (Robertson and Plummer). Paul had been in prison in Philippi, driven out of Thessalonica and Beroea, politely bowed out of Athens. It is a human touch to see this shrinking as he faced the hard conditions in Corinth. It is a common feeling of the most effective preachers. Cool complacency is not the mood of the finest preaching. See fobov (fear) and tromov (trembling) combined in II Corinthians 7:15; Philippians 2:12; Ephesians 6:5.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 2:3:

Acts 17:34
1 Corinthians 1:17
2 Corinthians 7:15

 

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