2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

I am not weak - in condescending sympathy with the weak (1 Corinthians 9:22). 'Care generates sympathy, which causes the minister personally to enter into the feelings of all his people, as if he stood in their position' (Calvin).

Offended, [ skandalizetai (G4624)] - by some stumblingblock put in his way by others. The "weak" " is liable to be "offended." I burn not. The "I" in the Greek is emphatic, but not so in "I am not weak." I not only enter into the feeling of the party offended, but I burn with indignation at the offender, as if his cause were my own. Compare his zeal, 1 Corinthians 5:3.