What does 2 Corinthians 11:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I."
Verse 22. _ARE THEY HEBREWS_] Speaking the _sacred language_, and _reading_ in the congregation from the Hebrew Scriptures? the same is my own language. _ARE THEY ISRAELITES_] Regularly descended fro...
ARE THEY HEBREWS? - This proves that the persons who had made the difficulty in Corinth were those who were of Hebrew extraction though it may be that they had been born in Greece and had been educate...
2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_ 2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7) 3. His Boastings of Labors...
COMPARISON BETWEEN PAUL AND HIS OPPONENTS (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 11:6). Under the pressure of intense feeling he will break through his inclination and self-imposed resolve of silence, to let his charac...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
ARE THEY HEBREWS? &c. These questions are an example of the Figure of speech _Epiphoza._ App-6....
St Paul permits himself to enumerate his labours for the Gospel's sake 18. _after the flesh_ See note on _after the Lord_, and Philippians 3:4. Also note on ch. 2 Corinthians 10:3. St Paul means afte...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
_ QUALITIES OF THE TRUE APOSTLESHIP -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-33:_ None of Paul's critics could boast of any advantage over him in a physical sense. He said, "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So...
ΕΒΡΑΊΟΣ (G1445) еврей. Это термин для обозначения чистокровного иудея; иногда иудей, говорящий по-еврейски или иудей из Палестины (TDNT; Lietzmann; Windisch; Barrett; OPSC, 41-46). ΊΣΡΑΗΛΊΤΗΣ (G2475)...
ARE THEY HEBREWS?— Mr. Locke observes, that though the Apostle makes use of the plural number _they,_ it is his opinion that he means but one person; as after, when he says _we,_ he means only himself...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Unaccredited, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17(What I am say...
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. HEBREWS ... ISRAELITES ... THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. A climax, - "Hebrews" referring to the language and n...
20 Paul's patient and forbearing behavior among them was in striking contrast to the course of his detractors. They treated the Corinthians like slaves, while Paul served them like a slave. They devou...
_(B) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_ St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
ARE THEY HEBREWS? — This, then, was one of their boasts. They were Jews of Palestine, speaking Aramaic, reading the Law and Prophets in the original. He, they asserted, or implied, was a Hellenistic J...
CHAPTER 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in nothing inf...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
PRE-EMINENT IN LABOR AND SUFFERING 2 Corinthians 11:22 It has been truly said that this enumeration represents a life which up to that hour had been without precedent in the history of the world. Se...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences w...
VERSE 22 The false teachers are now clearly seen as Judaizers. Paul was their equal in that religion, despite their apparent claims to the contrary (Acts 22:2-3; 1 Peter 3:5)....
(16) I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. (17) That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly...
illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
22.He now, by enumerating particular instances, lets them see more distinctly, that he would not by any means be found inferior, if matters came to a contest. And in the first place, he makes mention...
In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I,.... The nation of the Jews were called Hebrews, not from Abraham, as some have w thought, through ignorance of the Hebrew language, which will by no means admit of such a de...
Are they Hebrews? so _am_ I. Are they Israelites? so _am_ I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so _am_ I. Ver. 22. _Are they Israelites_] God's select, peculiar. "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like un...
_Are they Hebrews?_ Descended from Heber, (see Genesis 11:14,) and speaking the Hebrew language, though with some variation; _so am I_ Paul indeed was a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but his father and...
The apostle's commendation of himself:...
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
22-33 The apostle gives an account of his labours and sufferings; not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ; and shows...
ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I: this would incline us to think, that some, at least, of those corrupt teachers, upon whom the apostle hath so much reflected, were Jews; who had endeavoured to corrupt the G...
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. [This verse shows clearly that Paul's enemies were Judaizing Jews. They had evidently boasted of their r...
Origen de Principiis Book II For what other forefathers of Paul can be intended, except those of whom he says, "Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I."[44]...
2 Corinthians 11:22 they G1526 (G5748) Hebrews G1445 I G2504 they G1526 (G5748) Israelites G2475 I G2504 they G1526 (G5748) seed G4690 Abraham G11 I G2504 Hebrews - Exodus 3:18, Exodus 5:3,...
PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 11:1). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Paul's min...
2 Corinthians 11:22. ARE THEY HEBREWS? of pure Hebrew descent (compare Acts 6:1; Philippians 3:5), SO AM I. ARE THEY ISRAELITES? children of the covenant, SO AM I. ARE THEY THE SEED OF ABRAHAM and hei...
SO AM I (καγω). This is his triumphant refrain with each challenge....
CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor of Damascus. CONCLU...
2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
HEBREWS? This means a Jew who preserved his national language and customs, a kind of _super-patriot._ Compare note on Acts 9:1. ISRAELITES? One of God's own people. Compare Romans 9:4; Romans 11:1. AB...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:21 HEBREWS 1:1 refers to Jewish ethnicity; ISRAELITES refers to being God’s chosen people under the old covenant. OFFSPRING OF ABRAHAM means being part of the ne...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4) to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out that they had bestowed no...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:16. AGAIN.—After 2 Corinthians 11:1. “You can very well let a foolish fellow like me be in the fashion, and do a bit of boasting.” 2 Corinthians 11:17. AFTER THE LOR...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING. EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He is not afraid of comparisons (2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 C...
Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven. Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they so often did,...
2 Chronicles 20:7; Acts 22:3; Exodus 10:3; Exodus 3:18; Exodus 5:3; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 9:1; Exodus 9:13; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 17:9;...
Hebrews. See on Acts 6:1. Israelites. See on Acts 3:12, and compare Philippians 3:5, and the phrase Israel of God, Galatians 6:16, and an Israelite indeed, John 1:48. Seed of Abraham. Compare Matthew...
Are they Hebrews, Israelites, the seed of Abraham — These were the heads on which they boasted....
That is,. have suffered more for Christ, by stripes, by imprisonments, by daily dying, that any of them have done. Here note, That these false teachers, the Judaizing doctors, were most certainly of...