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Verse 2 Corinthians 11:13. _FOR SUCH_ ARE _FALSE APOSTLES_] Persons
who _pretend_ to be apostles, but have no mission from Christ.
_DECEITFUL WORKERS_] They _do_ preach and labour, but they have
noth...
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FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES - They have no claim to the apostolic
office. They are deceivers. They pretend to be apostles; but they have
no divine commission from the Redeemer. Paul had thus far argue...
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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 a...
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A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like
foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that
they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be
exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I
plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render
se...
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FALSE APOSTLES. Greek. _pseudapostotos._ Only here. Compare 2
Corinthians 11:26 and 2 Peter 2:1,
DECEITFUL. Greek. _dolios_. Only here. The verb in Romans 3:13.
TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES. Gre
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_For such_ The link of connection is as follows. You cannot believe
them in their boasting. They are false and deceitful in all their
doings. They have not _your_interest at heart, but their own. Cf....
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ΟἹ ΓᾺΡ ΤΟΙΟΥ͂ΤΟΙ ΨΕΥΔΑΠΌΣΤΟΛΟΙ,
ἘΡΓΆΤΑΙ ΔΌΛΙΟΙ. _For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers_. The γάρ implies some such thought as, ‘I am
justified in saying these severe things, _for_ people...
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THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY
With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2
Corinthians 11:15;...
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_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There
was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact
he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
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ΤΟΙΟΎΤΟΣ (G5108) подобный,
ΨΕΥΔΆΠΌΣΤΟΛΟΣ (G5570) ложный апостол,
псевдоапостол (DPL, 644-53)."ΈΡΓΆΤΗΣ (G2040)
тот, кто работает,
ΔΌΛΙΟΣ (G1386) обманный, мошеннический,
хитрый, обманчивый. Основное...
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FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES,— They had questioned St. Paul's
apostleship, 1 Corinthians 9 because of his not taking a maintenance
from the Corinthians. He here directly, and without reserve, declares...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15)
7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted,
because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
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For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
FOR. Reason why he needs to cut off "occasion" from his detractors.
FALSE APOSTLES. Those 'ov...
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11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle
makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as
severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
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_(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...
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PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I
shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the
district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
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FALSE APOSTLES] He now exposes them in plain terms. TRANSFORMING
THEMSELVES] RV 'fashioning themselves,' and so in next v....
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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...
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FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES... — St. Paul’s estimate of the
character of his rivals is now given in unsparing language as the
reason why he desires to deprive them of any claim which may give them
an...
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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...
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HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A
TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT
CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
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οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι κ. τ. λ.: _for such men_ (this
explains the ground of his determination in 2 Corinthians 11:12 not to
give opportunity for cavil) _are false apostles_ (_cf._ Revelation
2:2. This speed...
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CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS
2 Corinthians 11:10
In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the
Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts
with himself...
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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...
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VERSE 13 Those that accepted pay and opposed Paul were impostors
pretending to be apostles. They worked, but hidden beneath their work
were bad motives and intentions. Since they were not called of Ch...
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(6) For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(6) Now at length he portrays these fellows as they truly are,
forewarning that it will come...
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(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
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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,...
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13._For such are false Apostles _While he has already taken away from
them what they chiefly desired, yet, not contented with having put
himself on a level with them with respect to that in which they...
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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...
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FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES,.... Such as those he had in view, who
sought an occasion to depress him, and exalt themselves, and to get
money from the Corinthians; these were "false apostles", or apost...
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For such _are_ false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Ver. 13. _Deceitful workers_] They seemed to labour, but indeed they
loitered, or worse; seeking...
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_For such are false apostles_ Whatever they may pretend to the
contrary, being destitute of that divine mission which all the true
apostles have; _deceitful workers_ Pretending to great
disinterestedn...
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TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES; attempting to appear like apostles of Christ....
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FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL WORKERS, TRANSFORMING
THEMSELVES INTO THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST....
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Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false
teachers:...
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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...
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5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and
consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be
lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
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For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
themselves into apostles of Christ. [Thus he declares plainly that
these men are not apostles, that they maintained their false position...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
when he designates "false apostles, deceitful workers transforming
themselves" into likenesses of himself,[580]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI
And afte...
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2 Corinthians 11:13 For G1063 such G5108 apostles G5570 deceitful
G1386 workers G2040 themselves G3345 (G5734) into...
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‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
themselves into apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for even Satan
fashions himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing
therefor...
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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 mini...
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2 Corinthians 11:13. FOR SUCH MEN ARE FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL
WORKERS, FASHIONING THEMSELVES INTO APOSTLES OF CHRIST. He now tears
off the mask, giving his opponents their true name in which charact...
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FALSE APOSTLES
(ψευδαποστολο). From ψευδης, false, and
αποστολος. Paul apparently made this word (cf. Revelation
2:2). In verse 2 Corinthians 11:26 we have ψευδαδελφος, a
word of like formation (Gal...
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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.
CONCLUS...
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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...
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THEY ARE FALSE APOSTLES. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "This
speedy appearance of false teachers was one of the most remarkable
features of the Apostolic age; _compare_ Galatians 2:4; Philip...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:9 Paul refused to accept
money from the Corinthians because he had to distinguish his ministry
from that of the false apostles. They labored in Corinth out of gr...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13 FALSE APOSTLES. See 2
Peter 2:1 and notes....
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 11:12. OCCASION.—General drift clear, particular
application difficult, from our ignorance of facts. Hard to reconcile
some of the presumed cavils and accusations; which...
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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 ...
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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,...
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1 John 2:18; 1 John 4:1; 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 6:3;
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Transforming themselves [μ ε τ α σ χ η μ α τ ι ζ ο μ ε
ν ο ι]. Rev., better, fashioning, thus preserving the distinctive
force of schma outward fashion, which forms part of the compound verb.
See on M...