Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 11:12
Who desire any occasion — To censure me. That wherein they boast, they may be found even as we — They boasted of being "burdensome to no man." But it was a vain boast in them, though not in the apostle.
Who desire any occasion — To censure me. That wherein they boast, they may be found even as we — They boasted of being "burdensome to no man." But it was a vain boast in them, though not in the apostle.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:12. _BUT WHAT I DO_, c.] I act thus _that I may cut off_ _occasion_ of glorying, boasting, or calumniating _from them_-the false prophets and his partisans, _who seek occasion_...
BUT WHAT I DO - The course of life which I have been pursuing I will continue to pursue. That is, I will continue to preach as I have done without demanding a support. I will labor with my own hands i...
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...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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...
OCCASION. Greek. _aphorme._ See Romans 7:8. DESIRE. Greek _thelo._ App-102. WHEREIN. in (Greek. _en)_ what. GLORY. Greek _kauchaomai._ See Romans 2:17....
_occasion_ See ch. 2 Corinthians 5:12. _that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we_ These words seem to imply that the Corinthian false teachers did _not_accept money or maintenance for the...
Ὃ ΔῈ ΠΟΙΩ͂ ΚΑῚ ΠΟΙΉΣΩ, ἽΝΑ ἙΚΚΌΨΩ ΤῊΝ�. _But what I do, that I_ WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO _do_, _that I may cut off_ THE _occasion_ OF THOSE WHO WISH FOR AN _occasion_. There is no obscurity thus far. He...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
_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...
ΠΟΙΉΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΈΚΚΌΨΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΚΚΌΠΤΩ mi 716) отрубать, удалять, уничтожать (BAGD; GELTS, 137; CCFJ, 2:56). _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) используется для выраже...
THAT I WILL DO,— Rather, _and will do;_ so the words stand in the Greek, and do not refer to 2 Corinthians 11:10 as a profession of St. Paul's resolution to take nothing from them; but to 2 Corinthian...
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...
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. I WILL DO - I will continue to decline help. OCC...
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...
THAT WHEREIN THEY GLORY, THEY MAY BE FOUND EVEN AS WE] The 'false apostles,' or Judaisers, received support (2 Corinthians 11:20) as due to their apostleship. Had St. Paul done so they would have char...
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...
_(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...
THAT I MAY CUT OFF OCCASION FROM THEM WHICH DESIRE OCCASION. — It lies on the surface that the “occasion,” or _opening for attack,_ which his opponents had thus desired, was one against which he guard...
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...
ὃ δὲ ποιῶ κ. τ. λ.: _but what I do, that I will do that_, by refusing to accept maintenance gratis at your hands, _I may cut off the occasion_ (τὴν ἀφορμ., the definite opportunity for attack which my...
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...
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...
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 12 Rather than openly talk about their weakness, which caused him not to accept payment, Paul refuses to give all of his reasons. Here, he does say that he will continue to refuse pay so the fal...
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they (i) glory, they may be found even as we. (i) Paul's adversaries sought all occasions they...
St. Paul declares that he will continue to receive nothing for his preaching and his labours, that the false apostles may not glory in their disinterestedness; or rather, that he will not, by receivin...
(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,...
12._But what I do. _He again explains the reason of his intention. (831) The false Apostles, with the view of alluring to themselves ignorant persons, took no pay. Their serving gratuitously was a sho...
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...
BUT WHAT I DO, THAT I WILL DO,.... As he preached the Gospel freely at Corinth and in Achaia, so he was determined to do it for the future, for this reason only, or chiefly: THAT, says he, I MAY CUT...
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. Ver. 12. _That I may cut off occasion_] There were t...
_As the truth of Christ is in me_ As sure as I am a true Christian, and an apostle. The expression has the nature of an oath. See on Romans 9:1. _No man shall stop me of this boasting_ For I will rece...
THAT I MAY CUT OFF OCCASION FROM THEM WHICH DESIRE OCCASION; that his enemies should not be able to say that he was selfish, and preached for hire. WHEREIN THEY GLORY; namely, that they preach the go...
BUT WHAT I DO, THAT I WILL DO THAT I MAY CUT OFF OCCASION FROM THEM WHICH DESIRE OCCASION, THAT, WHEREIN THEY GLORY, THEY MAY BE FOUND EVEN AS WE....
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:...
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...
I know (saith the apostle) that there are some amongst you who, out of their hatred to me, would seek any occasion to asperse me to justify themselves. If I had (as I might) have taken wages amongst y...
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. [The apostle is determined that whatever he may do...
Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia For those who are the better, and who embrace the truth more clearly, being delivered from the evils of the flesh, become, on account of their perfect purification an...
2 Corinthians 11:12 But G1161 what G3739 do G4160 (G5719) G2532 do G4160 (G5692) that G2443 off...
‘But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity that in that in which they glory, they may be found even as we.' And he intends to continue doi...
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 11:12. BUT WHAT I DO, THAT I WILL DO, THAT I MAY OUT OFF OCCASION from them WHICH DESIRE OCCASION; THAT WHEREIN THEY GLORY, THEY MAY BE FOUND EVEN AS WE. Opinions differ as to what is me...
THAT I MAY CUT OFF OCCASION (ινα εκκοψω την αφορμην). Purpose clause with ινα and first aorist active subjunctive of εκκοπτω, old verb to cut out or off (Matthew 3:10; Matthew 5:30). See 2 Corinthia...
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...
IN ORDER TO. The false apostles were making themselves rich off the church! Since they will be compared to Paul, they feel they must discredit him. But if he allowed Corinth to pay him, he would be do...
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...
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 11:12. OCCASION.—General drift clear, particular application difficult, from our ignorance of facts. Hard to reconcile some of the presumed cavils and accusations; which...
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 5:6; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Timothy 5:14; 2 Corinthians 1:17;...
I will do. Will continue to do; refuse to receive pay. Cut off [ε κ κ ο ψ ω]. Lit., cut out. See on Luke 13:7, and compare Romans 11:24. Occasion [τ η ν α φ ο ρ μ η ν]. The force of the article must...