For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Ver. 5. The very chiefest apostles] Either he meaneth those pillars, Peter, James, John, &c., Galatians 2:6; or the false apostles, whom he styleth chiefest by an irony, because they sought to bear away the bell, and be counted prime preachers.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:5. _I WAS NOT - BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES._] That is: The most eminent of the apostles have not preached Christ, ministered the spirit, explained and enforced the doctri...
FOR I SUPPOSE ... - I think that I gave as good evidence that I was commissioned by God as the most eminent of the apostles. In the miracles which I performed; in the abundance of my labors, and in my...
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...
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...
Would that you would bear with me in a little foolishness--but I know that you do bear with me. I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband, I wished to present a...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
SUPPOSE. reckon. WAS... BEHIND. Greek. _hustero,_ See. Cor. 2 Corinthians 1:7. NOT. WHIT. in nothing. Greek. _medeis._ Whit is the O. E, wiht (wight),. person or thing. VERY CHIEFEST. Greek. _huper...
_For I suppose_ The connection of thought seems to be as above. If they had been preaching another Gospel, you might have borne with them, but when preaching the same Gospel they can arrogate no super...
5, 6. These verses lead up to the περιαυτολογία and καύχησις which is coming. The γάρ connects them with what precedes: ‘Of course this is not acting καλῶς, _for_ &c.’...
1–6. These verses are introductory, apologizing for the folly of glorying, to which a godly zeal on their behalf impels him. At the beginning, middle, and end of this section he calls attention to the...
ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ ΓᾺΡ ΜΗΔῈΝ ὙΣΤΕΡΗΚΈΝΑΙ ΤΩ͂Ν ὙΠΕΡΛΊΑΝ�. _For I_ COUNT (2 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Corinthians 10:11) _that I am not a whit behind_ THOSE PREEMINENT _apostles_. The rare compound ὑπερλίαν (here and...
_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...
ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G3049) _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ рассматривать, судить, подводить итоги, ΜΗΔΈΝ = ΟΎΔΈΝ (G3367) _асс._ нет, ни одного; _асс._ ссылки: "по отношению к чему-л." "вообще никакого" (Barrett),...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Unarticulative (2 Corinthians 11:1-6) I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 2I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to...
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. FOR - my elaim is superior to that of the false teachers. "For," etc. So 'Aleph (') Delta G f g, Vulgate. But B reads 'But.' I S...
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...
THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES] RM 'those preëminent apostles'; i.e. of course not the members of the apostolic band like St. Peter and St. John, but the false teachers to whom he is constantly referring....
PARAPHRASE. 'And my fear is not without reason, for you are certainly very favourably inclined towards those who bring quite a different gospel from that which I preached. (5) But if you tolerate them...
_(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...
FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES. — The verb with which the sentence opens is the same as the “I think,” “I reckon,” which characterises these Chapter s, and which, bei...
CHAPTER 24 GODLY JEALOUSY. 2 Corinthians 11:1 (R.V) ALL through the tenth chapter there is a conflict in the Apostle's mind. He is repeatedly, as it were, on the verge of doing something, from which...
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...
λογίζομαι γὰρ κ. τ. λ.: _for I reckon that I am not a whit behind these superfine Apostles_; you receive _them_ gladly; why not _me?_ He then proceeds to refute the two reasons which were assigned for...
“A GODLY JEALOUSY” 2 Corinthians 11:1 As the Bridegroom's friend, Paul was eager to bring the Corinthian church to the Bridegroom of souls. But false teachers disturbed the purity and simplicity of t...
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 5 Apparently some were claiming to be "super" apostles in Corinth. Paul was equal to all of them....
_For I suppose. Many understand this as spoken ironically, and alluding to the false apostles, who called themselves great. But it ought rather to be understood in a literal sense, that God had perfor...
(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...
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,...
5._For I reckon that I am. _He now convicts them of ingratitude, by removing the only thing that could serve as an excuse for them, for he shows that he is on a level, even with the chief of the Apost...
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...
FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND,.... This is very modestly expressed by the apostle; for he does not assert, and in a haughty and confident way affirm, but only supposes, or thinks that this mig...
_For if he that cometh_ After me, with such extraordinary pretences; _preach another Jesus_ Can point out to you another Saviour; _whom we have not preached_ Who shall better or equally deserve your a...
Paul is not inferior to the "great apostles":...
FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES....
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...
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...
The apostle, doubtless, meaneth those that were the true apostles of our Lord. those who were immediately sent out by him to preach the gospel, behind whom the apostle was not, either in respect of mi...
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. [I can not think that you receive these rival teachers and professed apostles as so much superior to me, for I am not behind these...
2 Corinthians 11:5 For G1063 consider G3049 (G5736) am G5302 all G3367 inferior G5302 (G5760) most G5228
‘For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very highest ranking apostles.' In view of this he feels it necessary as their ‘father' to establish his position and authority. He wants them to know tha...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:5. FOR I RECKON THAT I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES or (according to others, and the margin of the Revised Version) ‘those pre-eminent apostles.' In this last case,...
THAT I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES (μηδεν υστερηκενα των υπερλιαν αποστολων). Perfect active infinitive of υστερεω, old verb to fall short with the ablative case. The rare compou...
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...
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...
THE LEAST BIT INFERIOR! Paul has proved himself by his loyalty to Christ-on-the-cross! He has the Holy Spirit, but the false apostles do not! It is almost certain that the false apostles (and the _cir...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5 SUPER-APOSTLES. This is probably a sarcastic description of the false apostles troubling the Corinthian church (see vv....
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 11:1.—Small change of rendering, “_a bit of foolishness_,” because of small variation of reading. “For, on my own principle (2 Corinthians 10:18), _it is_ foolishness.”...
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 ...
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,...
1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Galatians 2:6...
The very chiefest apostles [τ ω ν υ π ε ρ λ ι α ν α π ο σ τ ο λ ω ν]. Lit., those who are preeminently apostles. Not referring to the genuine apostles, but ironically to the false teachers, the false...
Was Paul the greatest or the least of apostles? PROBLEM: Here Paul claimed, “I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles” (2 Corinthians 11:5). And elsewhere he would have us believe that he...
Observe here, 1. The great modesty of the apostle in this expression; I SUPPOSE. WAS NOT. WIT BEHIND THE CHIEFEST APOSTLES. He might have said he was equal with them, and in some sense superior to the...