Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 11:4
If indeed — Any could show you another Saviour, a more powerful Spirit, a better gospel. Ye might well bear with him — But this is impossible.
If indeed — Any could show you another Saviour, a more powerful Spirit, a better gospel. Ye might well bear with him — But this is impossible.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:4. _FOR IF HE THAT COMETH_] The false apostle, who came _after_ St. Paul had left Corinth. _PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS_] Who can save more fully and more powerfully than that Jesu...
FOR IF HE THAT COMETH ... - There is much difficulty in this verse in ascertaining the true sense, and expositors have been greatly perplexed and divided in opinion, especially with regard to the true...
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)...
IF. App-118. PREACHETH. On. _kerusso._ App-121. ANOTHER. Greek. _allos._ App-124. JESUS. App-98. NOT. Greek. _ou_. App-106. ANOTHER. Greek _hetaros._ App-124. SPIRIT. App-101., Compare verses: 2...
_he that cometh_ This shews that the false teachers came from elsewhere, whence they brought their corruptions. Chrysostom. Cf. Acts 15:1; Acts 15:24; Galatians 2:4;...
ἈΝΈΧΕΣΘΕ (BD 17) is more probable than ἀνείχεσθε (אD3GKLMP): ἠνείχεσθε (Rec.) has here scarcely any authority; comp. 2 Corinthians 11:1. 4. This obscure verse has received an immense amount of discuss...
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...
_PAUL CONTINUED HIS SELF-DEFENSE -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-4:_ Paul's concern for the Corinthians was tremendous. Therefore, he desired that they would bear with him as he explained and defended his apost...
ΕΊ (G1487) если; с _ind._ вводит условие, которое считается истинным, ΈΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, приходить. Subst. part., с артиклем указывает на конкретное лицо, х...
YE MIGHT WELL BEAR, &C.— _You would kindly,_ &c....
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 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 bea...
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...
_(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...
HE THAT COMETH] i.e. any new arrival claiming to be an Apostle. PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS] These preachers, who were hostile to St. Paul, proclaimed Jesus as a Jewish teacher who demanded strict adheren...
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...
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 IF HE THAT COMETH PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS. — The singular points, like the “any man,” “such an one,” of 2 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Corinthians 10:11, to an individual teacher who had made himself consp...
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...
εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὁ ἐρχόμενος κ. τ. λ.: _for if he that cometh_ (ὁ ἐρχόμενος _may_ point to some one conspicuous opponent, but it would not be safe to press this, or to lay stress on the verb as indicating o...
HE BEGS THEM TO BEAR WITH HIM IF HE STATES HIS CLAIMS AT LENGTH; IT IS NECESSARY TO DO SO BECAUSE OF THEIR READINESS TO ACCEPT NOVEL TEACHING....
“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 4 If the false teacher, who probably stands for all the false teachers, had presented another plan of salvation or savior, Paul might understand their hearing him out. These claimed to preach th...
(2) For if he that cometh preacheth (e) 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...
You might well bear with him. These new teachers pretended at least to preach only the doctrine of Christ. St. Paul tells them, they might in some measure be excused, if they preached a new doctrine,...
(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,...
4._For if he that cometh. _He now reproves the Corinthians for the excessive readiness, which they showed to receive the false apostles. For while they were towards Paul himself excessively morose and...
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 IF HE THAT COMETH,.... Meaning either some particular man, the apostle might have had some information of, who came from Judea to Corinth, under the character of a true apostle; or anyone of the f...
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 be...
2 Cor. 11:4. It ought to have been translated, Ye have well borne, or ye might well have borne with me. In the beginning of the chapter he desires them to bear with him because he was jealous over the...
_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...
YE MIGHT WELL BEAR WITH HIM; in his vain-glorious assumption of superiority over me and of dominion over your faith. But this is not the case. These boastful teachers have nothing new to offer....
THE TRUE APOSTLE AND THE FALSE TEACHERS. 2 Corinthians 11:1 Paul censures the spirit which gives ear to false teaching:...
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 BEAR...
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...
1-4 The apostle desired to preserve the Corinthians from being corrupted by the false apostles. There is but one Jesus, one Spirit, and one gospel, to be preached to them, and received by them; and wh...
OLBGrk; How our translators have interpreted kalwv hneicesye, YE MIGHT WELL BEAR, I cannot tell: the words manifestly are to be interpreted, you have well borne, and so are plainly a reflection upon s...
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear...
2 Corinthians 11:4 For G1063 if G1487 G3303 comes G2064 (G5740) preaches G2784 (G5719) another G243 Jesus
‘For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, do you do well to...
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 11:4. FOR IF HE THAT COMETH (any one so coming) PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS, WHOM WE DID NOT PREACH, OR _IF _ YE RECEIVE A DIFFERENT SPIRIT WHICH YE DID NOT RECEIVE, OR A DIFFERENT GOSPEL WH...
ANOTHER JESUS (αλλον Ιησουν). Not necessarily a different Jesus, but any other "Jesus" is a rival and so wrong. That would deny the identity.A DIFFERENT SPIRIT (πνευμα ετερον). This is the obvious...
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...
FOR YOU GLADLY TOLERATE. Compare this with 2 Corinthians 11:1. Human nature loves new things (Acts 17:21), and this makes Paul afraid that they will adopt this new message which is phony (not genuine,...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:4 DIFFERENT GOSPEL. The “gospel” of Paul’s opponents may have promised health and wealth but no suffering. This was contrary to Paul’s message and experiences ...
_For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus._ Christ is here put for Christianity and its perfection. If the false apostles should preach any other doctrine concerning Christ than that which I have...
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 12:4; 1 Timothy 2:5; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 4:4; Eph
Another Jesus - another Spirit [α λ λ ο ν - ε τ ε ρ ο ν]. Rev., another Jesus, a different Spirit. See on Matthew 6:24. Another denies the identity; a different denies the similarity of nature. It is...
As if the apostle had said, "It is one Christ, one Spirit, one gospel, and not many which we have preached, and you have received; now, if your new teachers, the false apostles, have another Christ to...