2nd Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 6 Holy Bible
Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, `even' God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;
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But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even] God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;
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Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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but He who is comforting the cast-down -- God -- He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Who comforteth those that are cast down. "The Comforter of the humble comforted us, even God." The word "humble" has in classical Greek the sense of "mean," "abject." Pride, not humility, was the virtue even of Stoic morality. Christ was the first to reveal the beatitude of lowliness (Matthew 11:29; Luke 1:52). Doubtless the word still retained some of its old associations, and had been used of St. Paul in a disparaging sense (2 Corinthians 10:1). But he whom his opponents accused of so much egotism, ambition, and arrogance, meekly accepts the term and applies it to himself. God (2 Corinthians 1:4). "The God... of consolation" (Romans 15:5). By the coming of Titus. This was the cause of that outburst of joy in 2 Corinthians 2:13, 14, which passage here finds its explanation. The absence of Titus from the Acts is another proof of the fragmentariness of that book. It is evident that he was an ardent, able, active fellow worker, and most beloved friend of the apostle (Galatians 2:1, 3; 2 Timothy 4:10; Titus 1:4; Titus 3:12). We learn most about him from this Epistle.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) God, that comforteth those that are cast down.--The fact of his own experience seems almost to present itself to his thoughts as constituting an attribute of the divine character. In the word for "cast down" (lowly) we may, perhaps, trace an allusion to the same word used of him by others as a disparaging epithet. (See Note on 2Corinthians 10:1.)
