How were you? In order to discredit Paul, the false teachers have said that the fact he would not take their pay proved he did not really love them, and that he thought they were inferior to the other churches! See notes on 2 Corinthians 11:7-12. But the only sign he omitted at Corinth was to take their money. He says in irony, "Please forgive me for being so unfair!"
Verse 2 Corinthians 12:13. _FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YOU WERE INFERIOR_] This is a fine, forcible, yet delicate _stroke_. It was _your_ duty and your interest to have supported your apostle; other Chur...
FOR WHAT IS IT ... - This verse contains a striking mixture of sarcasm and irony, not exceeded, says Bloomfield, by any example in Demosthenes. the sense is,” I have given among you the most ample pro...
3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apos...
RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corin...
I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have been...
THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
WERE INFERIOR. Greek. _hetiaomai_. Only here and 2 Peter 2:19. Literally, "were worsted". TO. beyond. Greek. _huper._ App-104. OTHER. = the rest of. App-124 2Co 124:3. CHURCHES. App-186. EXCEPT. Gr...
_For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches (hadden lesse than_, Wiclif). There is no need to regard this, with some commentators, as "bitter irony." There is nothing bitter about it. I...
Continuation of the Defence 11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
ἩΣΣΏΘΗΤΕ (אBD), after the analogy of ἐλασσόω, rather than ἡττήθητε (א3AD2D3KLP), from ἡττάω. 13. The Corinthians had had the distinction of these miracles and supernatural gifts; and in nothing had an...
_SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11-13_ : Paul felt that he had been forced to make a fool of himself. He knew that he was nothing. He also knew that he was not at all inferior to these super-apo...
О _асс. n. от_ ΌΣ (G3739) кто, что. _асс._ отношения: по отношению к чему? где? ΉΣΣΏΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΣΣΌΟΜΑΙ (G2274) делать меньше, ставить ниже; _pass._ терпеть поражение, быть слабее или н...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18) 11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ Admission of Foolishness Scripture 2 Corinthians 12:11-13. I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very...
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. WHEREIN YOU WERE INFERIOR - i:e., were treated with less con...
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...
HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...
FORGIVE ME] The verse is ironical....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES? — His mind travels back to the insinuation that he cared less for them than he did for the churches of Macedonia, because he had maintained his i...
CHAPTER 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corinthians 12:...
τί γάρ ἐστιν ὃ ἡσσ. κ. τ. λ.: _for what is there wherein ye were treated as inferior_ (_cf._ 2 Peter 2:19) _to the rest of the churches, except indeed that I myself did not burden you? Cf._ Acts 20:33...
THE FOREGOING TESTIMONY TO HIS CLAIMS OUGHT TO HAVE COME FROM THE CORINTHIANS WHO WITNESSED HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS....
“I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU” 2 Corinthians 12:11 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he diverged at...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...
VERSE 13 In fact, the church at Corinth had the same blessings and gifts as any church started by an apostle. The only thing they lacked was a demand of high wages by Paul, like the false apostles had...
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not (m) burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. (m) I was not slothful with my own hands, so that I might...
_Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the humility of St. Paul, when forced to speak his own praises. --- The signs and marks of my apostleship....on you, by your conversion, espe...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
13._What is there in which. _Here is an aggravation of their ingratitude — that he had been distinguished, that they might receive benefit — that they had derived advantage from the attestation furnis...
Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES,.... The apostle here suggests, and appeals to themselves for the truth of it, that in nothing they came short of other churches; that as he w...
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except _it be_ that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. Ver. 13. _Forgive me this wrong_] A pleasant irony, such as w...
2 Cor. 12:13. "Whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell." When the apostle said, _absent from the body and present with the Lord, _ he doubtless meant by _absent from the body_, the same...
_Truly the signs of an apostle_ The signs whereby a person was known to be an apostle, were his performing great and evident miracles openly in the view of the world, especially his healing diseases,...
WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES; in the quality of the ministry enjoyed by you. WAS NOT BURDENSOME; did not receive my support from you. FORGIVE ME THIS WRONG; said in irony....
WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:...
FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES, EXCEPT IT BE THAT I MYSELF WAS NOT BURDENSOME TO YOU? FORGIVE ME THIS WRONG!...
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...
Wherein have not you been used as any other gospel churches were, where Peter, or James, or any other of the apostles have laboured? Hath not the same doctrine been preached to you? Have not as great...
For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong. [And you are without excuse in thus compelling m...
The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity quarrelsomeness, injustice,[70]...
2 Corinthians 12:13 For G1063 what G5101 it G2076 (G5748) which G3739 inferior G2274 (G5681) to G5228
‘For what is there wherein you were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.' Indeed the only Apostolic ‘sign' that he did...
HE GLORIES IN WONDROUS EXPERIENCES, DREADFUL WEAKNESS AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MIRACLES, IN ALL OF WHICH HE IS A MATCH FOR HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1) Having stressed the differences between hi...
2 Corinthians 12:13. FOR WHAT IS THERE WHEREIN YE WERE MADE INFERIOR TO (placed at a disadvantage as compared with) THE REST OF THE CHURCHES, EXCEPT _IT BE_ THAT I MYSELF WAS NOT A BURDEN TO YOU? FORG...
WHEREIN YE WERE MADE INFERIOR (ο ησσωθητε). First aorist passive indicative of ησσοομα, the text of Aleph B D instead of the usual ηττηθητε from the common ητταομα to be inferior or less from the c...
CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to be...
2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity, Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:13 With playful irony, Paul says that the only wrong he did the Corinthians was not asking them for money (see 2 Corinthians 11:9 for the reaso
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11
It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...
1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 2 Corinthians 11:7;...
Except that I was not a burden. Alluding to the possible objection that his refusal to receive pay was a sign either of his want of power to exact it, or of his want of affection for them (ch. 11 7)....