Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 11:7
Have I committed an offence — Will any turn this into an objection? In humbling myself — To work at my trade. That ye might be exalted — To be children of God.
Have I committed an offence — Will any turn this into an objection? In humbling myself — To work at my trade. That ye might be exalted — To be children of God.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:7. _HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENCE IN ABASING MYSELF_] Have I transgressed in _labouring with my hands_ that I might _not be_ _chargeable to you_? and getting my deficiencies supp...
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENCE - Have I done wrong. Greek, “Have I committed a sin.” There is here a somewhat abrupt transition from the previous verse; and the connection is not very apparent. Perhaps t...
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...
OFFENCE. sin. Greek. _harnartia._ App-128. ABASING. Greek. _tapeinoo,_ Compare _tapeinosis,_ Acts 8:33. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina._ EXALTED. Greek. _hubsoo._ See John 12:32, HAVE. Omit. PR...
_Have I committed an offence_ Literally, COMMITTED SIN (_don sinne_, Wiclif. _Did I therein synne_? Tyndale, Cranmer and the Geneva version). This passage is ironical. The Corinthians had allowed St P...
Ἤ ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑΝ ἘΠΟΊΗΣΑ Κ.Τ.Λ. _Or_ DID I COMMIT A SIN _in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you_ GOD’S GOSPEL FOR NOTHING? For ἤ introducing an emphatic question comp. 1 Cori...
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...
Ή (G2228) или. ΈΠΟΊΗΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, поступать, ΤΑΠΕΙΝΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΤΑΠΕΙΝΌΩ (G5013) принижать, унижать, ΎΨΩΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΎΨΌΩ (G5312) поднимать,...
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENCE— The adverse party made it an argument against St. Paul that he was no apostle, since he took nothing among the Corinthians for his maintenance, 1 Corinthians 9:1. Another...
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...
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? HAVE I - literally, 'OR have I?' 'Or will you make it an objection t...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'Is it a fault in your eyes that I took nothing from you while labouring for your spiritual benefit, but gave you the gospel gratuitously? (8) I took more than their due from others to pro...
_(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...
AN OFFENCE] His very independence had been used against him. For his practice cp. 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8....
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...
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENCE (literally, _a sin_) IN ABASING MYSELF...? — The rival teachers apparently boasted of their disinterestedness. “They didn’t come for what they could get.” St. Paul, we know...
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...
ἢ ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησα κ. τ. λ.: _or did I commit a sin_ (note the irony) _in abasing myself_ (_cf._ Philippians 4:12), _that ye might be exalted, sc._, in spiritual privileges (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:11),...
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...
“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 7 Paul had not accepted payment for his work among them so that no one would be hindered from obeying the gospel. Ironically, some were saying he refused the pay of an apostle because he knew he...
(4) Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? (4) Another slander, that is, that he was a rascal, and lived by th...
Did I commit a fault? &c. It is a kind of reproach to them, and by the figure, called irony, with a reflection on the false preachers, who some way or other, got themselves handsomely maintained, whil...
(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,...
7._Have I committed an offense? _His humility was cast up to him by way of reproach, while it was an excellence that was deserving of no ordinary commendation. _Humility _here means — voluntary abasem...
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...
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENCE IN ABASING MYSELF,.... Either by behaving among them, when he was first with them, in a very modest and humble manner, in much fear and trembling, without pride and haughti...
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? Ver. 7. _I have preached to you freely_] Because he get his living wit...
_Have I committed an offence_ Will any turn this into an objection; _in abasing myself_ Stooping to work at my trade; _that ye might be exalted_ To the dignity of being the children of God; _because I...
ABASING MYSELF; in laboring for his support, not receiving it from them. Acts 18:3....
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENSE IN ABASING MYSELF THAT YE MIGHT BE EXALTED, BECAUSE I HAVE PREACHED TO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD FREELY?...
Paul is not inferior to the "great 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...
What is it that hath made you take such offence at me; seeing you cannot say, that either in my call, or in my gifts and graces, or in my labours, or in the success of my labours, I have been inferior...
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? [A second accusation which his enemies never wearied in presenting was that he...
2 Corinthians 11:7 G2228 commit G4160 (G5656) sin G266 humbling G5013 (G5723) myself G1683 that G2443 you
‘Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?' Or are they blaming him for not accepting payment from them for what they h...
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 11:7. Or changing their ground of complaint DID I COMMIT AN OFFENCE (_Gr._ ‘sin') IN ABASING MYSELF THAT YE MIGHT BE EXALTED, BECAUSE I PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF GOD FOR NOUGHT? He had clai...
IN ABASING MYSELF (εμαυτον ταπεινων). Humbling myself by making tents for a living while preaching in Corinth. He is ironical still about "doing a sin" (αμαρτιαν εποιησα).FOR NOUGHT (δωρεαν). _Gr...
OFFENCE SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
CHARGE YOU A THING. Paul would accept no pay from the Corinthians when he planted the church there. The false apostles said this proved he was not an apostle. Paul says that he humbled himself to make...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:7 Paul supported himself in Corinth. Thus he PREACHED GOD’S GOSPEL... FREE OF CHARGE for the sake of the Corinthians. This EXALTED the Corinthian believers but w...
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 11:7. OR.—Turning to another topic. OFFENCE.—Lit. “_Sin_.” FREELY.—_I.e. “without charge_.” Cf. Philippians 4:12. 2 Corinthians 11:8
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 4:10; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Corinthians 9:14; 1 Corinthians 9:6;...
Abasing myself. By working at his trade. Preached the Gospel - freely [δ ω ρ ε α ν] gratuitously. Rev., for nought, is not an improvement, but is quite as ambiguous as freely. Without charge would be...
Observe here, 1. That St. Paul, in his former epistle to the Corinthians, abundantly proved the lawfulness of his taking maintenance from those to whom he preached the gospel: Yet here he tells the Co...