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2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you; for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you; for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Verse 2 Corinthians 12:11. _I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING_] It is not the part of a _wise_ or _gracious_ man to _boast_; but _ye have compelled_ _me_-I have been obliged to do it, in order to vindica...
I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING - The meaning of this expression I take to be this. “I have been led along in speaking of myself until I admit I appear foolish in this kind of boasting. It is folly to...
3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apos...
RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corin...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have been...
IN GLORYING, The texts omit. COMMENDED. Greek. _sunistemi_. See 2 Corinthians 3:1, OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. NOTHING. Greek. _oudeis._ AM. BEHIND. Greek _hustereo._ See Romans 3:23, and Compa...
Continuation of the Defence 11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
ἌΦΡΩΝ (אABDFGK, Latt. Copt. Aeth. Arm.) rather than ἄφρων καυχώμενος (LP, Syrr. Goth.), which Rec. adopts. 11. The Apostle pauses and looks back at what he has been saying in this most distasteful con...
_SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11-13_ : Paul felt that he had been forced to make a fool of himself. He knew that he was nothing. He also knew that he was not at all inferior to these super-apo...
ΓΈΓΟΝΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. Этот гл. эмфатический, он обозначает, что происходит нечто ожидаемое или предсказанное (Plummer). ΆΦΡΩΝ (G878) глупый (_см._ 2 Corinthians 12:...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18) 11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ Admission of Foolishness Scripture 2 Corinthians 12:11-13. I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very...
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. IN GLORYING. Omitted in...
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...
HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...
I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN COMMENDED] Instead of listening to his detractors they should have vigorously defended him. THOUGH I BE NOTHING] i.e. as my enemies say....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING. — The two last words are wanting in the better MSS., and the verse opens with a somewhat thrilling abruptness, — _I am become insane_ — _it was you_ (emphatic) _who com...
CHAPTER 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corinthians 12:...
THE FOREGOING TESTIMONY TO HIS CLAIMS OUGHT TO HAVE COME FROM THE CORINTHIANS WHO WITNESSED HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS....
γέγονα ἄφρων · ὑμεῖς κ. τ. λ.: _I am become foolish, sc._, boasting thus: _ye compelled me, i.e._, it was your doing; _for I ought to have been commended by you_ (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthian...
“I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU” 2 Corinthians 12:11 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he diverged at...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...
VERSE 11 Since they would not defend him, the Corinthians forced Paul into boasting. Paul knew that he was nothing without God. Even at that, he was greater than those false teachers who set themselve...
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: (5) for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. (5) Again he makes the...
_Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the humility of St. Paul, when forced to speak his own praises. --- The signs and marks of my apostleship....on you, by your conversion, espe...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
11._I have become a fool _Hitherto he had, by various apologies, solicited their forgiveness for what was contrary to his own custom and manner of acting, and contrary, also, to propriety, and what wa...
Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING,.... This is either to be understood conditionally, if he had acted as a fool in commending himself, or was to be reckoned and called so by others, for glorying of himse...
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. Ver. 11. _For in nothing a...
_For this thing I besought the Lord thrice_ All kinds of affliction had befallen the apostle, yet none of these did he deprecate. But here he speaks of his thorn in the flesh, as above all the rest on...
YE HAVE COMPELLED ME; your conduct has made it needful. I BE NOTHING; in and of myself; all my sufficiency is of God....
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...
I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING; I may amongst some of you (who interpret all things I say into the worst sense) gain nothing but the reputation of a weak man, wanting understanding, for speaking so mu...
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing. [You, who should have spoken in my defense...
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‘I am become foolish, you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I behind the very highest ranking apostles, though I am nothing. Truly the signs of an apostle wer...
HE GLORIES IN WONDROUS EXPERIENCES, DREADFUL WEAKNESS AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MIRACLES, IN ALL OF WHICH HE IS A MATCH FOR HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1) Having stressed the differences between hi...
_Self-Vindication resumed,_ 11-21. 2 Corinthians 12:11. I AM BECOME FOOLISH: YE COMPELLED ME; FOR I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN COMMENDED OF YOU: FOR IN NOTHING WAS I BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES, THOUGH...
I AM BECOME FOOLISH (γεγονα αφρων). Perfect active indicative of γινομα. In spite of what he said in verse 2 Corinthians 12:6 that he would not be foolish if he gloried in the other Paul. But he fee...
CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to be...
2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
I AM ACTING LIKE A FOOL. "I know I am acting like a fool to come down to your level and boast about such things, but you have forced me to do it! You should have taken my part against the false teache...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity, Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 SUPER-APOSTLES. See note on 11:5–6. EVEN THOUGH I AM NOTHING. Paul was the “least of the apostles,” having persecuted the churc
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
_I am become a fool in glorying._ I seem to have done foolishly in praising myself, but you, who had of me a lower opinion than you ought, and who gave more credence to the false apostles than to me,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11
It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...
1 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:4; 1 Corinthians 3:7;...
I am become a fool in glorying. Ironical. By the record I have presented I stand convicted of being foolish. I ought to have been commended of you. You ought to have saved me the necessity of recount...
Though I am nothing — Of myself....
Here again does our apostle excuse his boasting, and tells the Corinthians that they had compelled him to it, and ought to have saved him the labour of it, by defending him themselves. For he had done...