BUTLER'S COMMENTARY Chapter Eleven THE PROBLEM OF SLANDER (2 Corinthians 11:1-33) IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE: 1. What is slander? Why are preachers slandered? 2. Why would a man like Paul be slandered as unskilled in speaking? 3. How did Paul rob the Corinthian church? 4. What disguise did the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband. 3But I am afraid that as the serpent dece... [ Continue Reading ]
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 robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. 9And when I was with you and... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 11:16-21 a. I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying. 18 Seeing that man... [ Continue Reading ]
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 saying I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence; 18since many boa... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak... [ Continue Reading ]