“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.”
(2 Cor. 2:4)
One old divine wrote, “When Paul wrote, he dipped his pen in tears.” Paul was a tender man, contrary to the belief of some. I was led to believe by one of my earliest mentors he was a harsh, hard man. Many who allow their natural temperament to interpret the Bible fall into this quagmire.
Most certainly Paul was a man’s man; he had a tough hide but at the same time a tender heart. They’re compatible in the best of men! Only weak saints need to flex their spiritual muscle but not so with a strong one, for it is obvious to all. Inferiority always manifests itself as superiority!
You can tell a lot about a person from their vocabulary. Some oft-used words by Paul are: love, tenderhearted, kindness, goodness, gentleness, charity, longsuffering, etc. Jesus said, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good...for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh,” Lk. 6:45.
“The tenderest MAN who ever lived (Christ), possessed the strongest convictions.”
(rds)
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