SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:7
¶ ¿Miris las cosas segn la apariencia? El que est confiado en sí mismo que es de Cristo, esto tambin piense por sí mismo, que como l es de Cristo, así tambin nosotros somos de Cristo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 10:7
Verse 7. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?] Do not be carried away with appearances; do not be satisfied with show and parade. If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's] Here, as in several other places of this and the preceding epistle, the tiv, any or certain, person, most evidently refers to the false apostle who made so much disturbance in the Church. And this man trusted to himself-assumed to himself that he was Christ's messenger: it would not do to attempt to subvert Christianity at once; it had got too strong a hold of Corinth to be easily dislodged; he therefore pretended to be on Christ's side, and to derive his authority from him.
Let him of himself] Without any authority, certainly, from God; but, as he arrogates to himself the character of a minister of Christ, let him acknowledge that even so we are Christ's ministers; and that I have, by my preaching, and the miracles which I have wrought, given the fullest proof that I am especially commissioned by him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance , etc..] Or look upon things, ironically said; or ye do look on things, a reproof for making judgment of persons and things, by the outward appearance of them; so many judged of Paul by the meanness of his person, the weakness of his body, the lowness of his voice, his outward circumstances of life, his poverty, afflictions, and persecutions; and despised him; whilst they looked upon the riches, eloquence, haughty airs, noisiness, and personable mien, of the false apostles, and admired them: if a man trusts to himself that he is Christ's : is fully assured that he has an interest in his love and favour, is redeemed by his blood, is a partaker of his grace, and a believer in him; or rather, that he is a minister of the Gospel, and an apostle of Christ, one that is qualified and sent forth by him to preach the word: let him, of himself, think this again, that as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's ; that is, he may, and ought of himself, without another's observing it to him, of his own accord, willingly reason and conclude, by the selfsame marks and evidences he would be thought to be a minister of Christ, that we are also. The sense is, that let a man be ever so confident of his being a true minister of the Gospel, he will not be able to point out one criterion or proof of his being so, but what he might discern in the Apostle Paul, and the rest of his fellow ministers, and therefore ought to conclude the same of them as of himself. In which may be observed the great modesty of the apostle, who does not go about to disprove others being Christ's, who so confidently boasted of it; nor bid them look to it to see if they were or not, since all that say so are not; only as if granting that they were, he would have them look upon him, and his fellow apostles as such also, who had at least equal pretensions to this character.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-11 - In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that non outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowl Saviour.
Greek Textus Receptus
τα 3588 T-APN κατα 2596 PREP προσωπον 4383 N-ASN βλεπετε 991 5719 V-PAI-2P ει 1487 COND τις 5100 X-NSM πεποιθεν 3982 5754 V-2RAI-3S εαυτω 1438 F-3DSM χριστου 5547 N-GSM ειναι 1511 5750 V-PXN τουτο 5124 D-ASN λογιζεσθω 3049 5737 V-PNM-3S παλιν 3825 ADV αφ 575 PREP εαυτου 1438 F-3GSM οτι 3754 CONJ καθως 2531 ADV αυτος 846 P-NSM χριστου 5547 N-GSM ουτως 3779 ADV και 2532 CONJ ημεις 2249 P-1NP χριστου 5547 N-GSM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
10:7 {Ye look} (blepete). Either indicative or imperative. Either makes sense but the indicative the best sense. {Before your face} (kata proswpon). They ought to look below the surface. If it is imperative, they should see the facts. {That he is Christ's} (cristou einai). Predicate genitive in indirect discourse).
