Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 11:32
The governor under Aretas — King of Arabia and Syria of which Damascus was a chief city, willing to oblige the Jews, kept the city — Setting guards at all the gates day and night.
The governor under Aretas — King of Arabia and Syria of which Damascus was a chief city, willing to oblige the Jews, kept the city — Setting guards at all the gates day and night.
2 CORINTHIANS 11:32 pia,sai me {B} Although support for the reading pia,sai me is not extensive, its quality is impressive (B D* itd, ar vg syrp copsa arm). If qe,lwn were original, its omission woul...
Verse 32. _IN DAMASCUS THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS_] For a description of Damascus see the note on _"_Acts 9:2_"_. And for the transaction to which the apostle refers see Acts 9:23. As to King _Aretas_...
IN DAMASCUS - This circumstance is mentioned as an additional trial. It is evidently mentioned as an instance of peril which had escaped his recollection in the rapid account of his dangers enumerated...
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...
COMPARISON BETWEEN PAUL AND HIS OPPONENTS (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 11:6). Under the pressure of intense feeling he will break through his inclination and self-imposed resolve of silence, to let his charac...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Again I say, let no one think me a fool. But, even if you do, bear with me, even if it is as a fool that you do bear with me, so that I too may boast a little. I am not saying what I am saying as if t...
GOVERNOR. Greek. _ethnarches._ Only here. It means. prefect. ARETAS. The father-in-law of Herod Antipas. App-109, KEPT... WITH. GARRISON. guarded. Greek. _phroureo._ Only here, Galatians 1:3; Galatia...
_In Damascus_ Cf. Acts 9:23-25. _the governor_ Literally, the ETHNARCH (ruler of the nation the title of an Oriental provincial governor. See 1Ma 14:47; 1Ma 15:1, &c.). _under Aretas the king_ Aretas...
St Paul permits himself to enumerate his labours for the Gospel's sake 18. _after the flesh_ See note on _after the Lord_, and Philippians 3:4. Also note on ch. 2 Corinthians 10:3. St Paul means afte...
32, 33. It has been proposed by Holsten, Hilgenfeld, Schmiedel, Baljon, and others to strike out these two verses, with or without all or the first part of 2 Corinthians 12:1, as a rather clumsy gloss...
ΠΙΆΣΑΙ ΜΕ (BD, d f Vulg. Arm.) rather than πιάσαι με θέλων (אD3KLMP), or θέλων με πιάσαι (FG, g Copt. Pesh. Aeth.). 2 Corinthians 11:1 to 2 Corinthians 12:10. THE APOSTLE’S FOOLISH GLORYING ABOUT GRA...
22–33. Now follows the actual glorying. Several times he had begun this assertion of himself (2 Corinthians 10:7-8; 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:7;...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
_ QUALITIES OF THE TRUE APOSTLESHIP -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-33:_ None of Paul's critics could boast of any advantage over him in a physical sense. He said, "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So...
ΈΘΝΆΡΧΗΣ (G1481) этнарх. По-видимому, этот термин обозначает представителя подчиненного народа, которому дана некоторая власть над собственным народом, но при этом он несет ответственность перед иност...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Unaccredited, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17(What I am say...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Labors and Sufferings Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 11:21-33. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Is...
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: GOVERNOR - Greek, 'Ethnarch'-a commandant to whom pagan rulers gave authori...
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...
11:32 ethnarch (a-4) i.e. the governor of the province....
_(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...
PARAPHRASE. 'If, however, I must boast in self-defence, I shall boast about my weakness and helplessness; for I shall thus make it plain what Christ has done by means of such a feeble servant. (31) An...
DAMASCUS] This event in his career happened either immediately after his conversion, or after his return from his subsequent sojourn in Arabia: cp. Acts 19:9 and Galatians 1:17. ARETAS] This king (Are...
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...
IN DAMASCUS THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS THE KING... — The question meets us at the outset whether the fact that follows is brought in as being the first instance of suffering endured for the sake of Chr...
CHAPTER 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are partly connected with its form, partly with its substance: it will...
ἐν Δαμασκῷ ὁ ἐθν. κ. τ. λ.: _in Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, sc._; by placing a watch at the gates, _to take me; and through a window_ (_i.e._, an ap...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
PRE-EMINENT IN LABOR AND SUFFERING 2 Corinthians 11:22 It has been truly said that this enumeration represents a life which up to that hour had been without precedent in the history of the world. Sel...
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 32 Acts 9:23-25 tells of this great danger Paul faced early in his career....
(32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: (33) And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and esc...
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,...
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...
IN DAMASCUS THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS THE KING,.... Aretas or Al-Hareth was a king of Arabia, of the family of the Gassanii; among whom were many of this name r; and who for some hundreds of years rul...
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: Ver. 32. _In Damascus_] The chief city of Syria, built (say some) in the plac...
_In Damascus_, &c. As if he had said, I must be permitted to add one circumstance more to illustrate the dangers to which I was exposed, as soon as I engaged in the Christian cause, and the remarkable...
A further recital of hardships and difficulties:...
IN DAMASCUS, THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS, THE KING, KEPT THE CITY OF THE DAMASCENES WITH A GARRISON, DESIROUS TO APPREHEND ME;...
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...
22-33 The apostle gives an account of his labours and sufferings; not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ; and shows...
Ver. 32,33. Luke hath shortly given us the history of this danger, ACTS 9:23. Soon after Paul was converted from the Jewish to the Christian religion, he, disputing with the Jews which dwelt at Damasc...
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:...
Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle Likewise also, the renowned Paul having been oftentimes delivered up and brought in peril of death, having endured many evils, and making his boast in his numero...
2 Corinthians 11:32 In G1722 Damascus G1154 governor G1481 Aretas G702 king G935 guarding G5432 city G4172 Damascenes...
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...
‘In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me, and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.' He finishes...
2 Corinthians 11:32. IN DAMASCUS THE GOVERNOR (_Gr._ ‘ethnarch') UNDER ARETAS THE KING of that division of Arabia which had Petra for its capital, GUARDED THE CITY OF THE DAMASCENES showing that thoug...
THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS (ο εθναρχης Hαρετα). How it came to pass that Damascus, ruled by the Romans after B.C. 65, came at this time to be under the rule of Aretas, fourth of the name, King of th...
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...
WHEN I WAS IN DAMASCUS. See note on Acts 9:23. Paul adds this account as an afterthought. It may be that the false teacher had widely circulated this account, hoping to embarrass Paul with it. Here he...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:32 Having to flee IN A BASKET was a striking example of Paul’s “weakness” (v. 2 Corinthians 11:30
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...
_The governor under Aretas the king._ This satrap of King Aretas was, says Theophylact, the father-in-law of Herod. Josephus says that Herod Antipas, who put to death John the Baptist, married the dau...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:16. AGAIN.—After 2 Corinthians 11:1. “You can very well let a foolish fellow like me be in the fashion, and do a bit of boasting.” 2 Corinthians 1
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:31.—Grammar makes certain that the ejaculated benediction belongs to the Father. HE WHO IS.—The emphatic Greek recalls the Greek equivalent for JEHOVAH. Look at the _...
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,...
2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 9:24; Acts 9:25...
The governor [ε θ ν α ρ χ η ς]. Only here in the New Testament. A governor ruling in the name of a king : a prefect. Aretas. Or Hareth, the father - in - law of Herod Antipas. Hs capital was the rock...
The apostle concludes this chapter, containing. relation of his sufferings, with. remarkable deliverance which God gave him from danger and death, at the city of Damascus, soon after his conversion, o...