Verse 20. _FOR YE SUFFER_] As you are so _meek_ and _gentle_ as to submit to be brought into _bondage_, to have your property _devoured_, your goods _taken_ away, yourselves laid in the dust, so that...
FOR YE SUFFER ... - You bear patiently with people who impose on you in every way, and who are constantly defrauding you, though you profess to be so wise, and you may bear with me a little, though I...
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...
BRING. INTO BONDAGE. enslave. Greek. _katadouloo._ Only here and Galatians 1:2; Galatians 1:4. Compare App-190. DEVOUR. Greek. _katesthio._ Elsewhere, Matthew 23:14.
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...
_For ye suffer (susteynen_, Wiclif). "This may be understood in three ways. (1) He may be understood as reproving the Corinthians ironically, because of their inability to bear with anything, or (2) a...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
ἈΝΈΧΕΣΘΕ ΓΆΡ. ‘Am I not right in saying that in your sublime wisdom you can be serenely tolerant of folly? _For_ you put up with what is a great deal more intolerable than folly. You put up with tyran...
16–21. Like 2 Corinthians 11:1-6, these six verses are ‘again’ introductory to the glorying which follows, apologizing for the folly of it....
_ BOASTING DONE WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16-21:_ Paul did not want these brethren to think he was a fool. But even if they did accept him as a fool he needed to boast a little. Paul u...
ΆΝΈΧΕΣΘΕ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΝΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G430) терпеть ΚΑΤΑΔΟΥΛΟΪ́ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΔΟΥΛΌΩ (G2615) порабощать. Используется в _conj._, предполагающем реальность условия, ΚΑΤΕΣΘΊΕΙ _p...
IF A MAN BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE, &C.— This is spoken ironically, to express their bearing with the insolence and covetousness of their false apostle. The _bondage_ here meant was subjection to the wil...
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...
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...
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. FOR - ye may well "bear with" fools; for ye even...
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...
IF A MAN] i.e. any of his Jewish opponents. BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE] to the Ceremonial Law: cp. Galatians 2:4. DEVOUR] make money out of you: cp. Mark 12:40; Luke 22:47. TAKE _of you_] RV 'taketh you c...
_(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...
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 YE SUFFER, IF A MAN BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE. — Every word in the sentence clearly points to something that Titus had told him of the action of these rival teachers. They reproduced, in their worst...
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...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
ἀνέχεσθε γὰρ κ. τ. λ.: _for ye bear with a man if he_ (we cannot press τις so as to point to any special individual; _cf._ 2 Corinthians 10:7) _enslave you_ (in contrast to any such tyranny, St. Paul...
CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS 2 Corinthians 11:10 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts with himself...
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 20 They had been patient with the false teachers while they placed themselves in bondage to false authority and doctrine. They had paid the high wage demands. They had even stooped to the positi...
(8) For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. (8) Before he comes to the matter, he talks...
St. Paul still continues to speak ironically, that they will permit him to praise himself in his own justification, since they have permitted these false teachers to reduce them to bondage under the l...
(16) I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. (17) That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly...
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,...
20._For ye bear with it, if any one. _There are _three _ways in which this may be understood. He may be understood as reproving the Corinthians in _irony, _because they could not endure any thing, as...
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 YE SUFFER IF A MAN BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE,.... They not only suffered and tolerated the foolish boasting of these men with pleasure, but patiently and stupidly bore their oppressions, injuries, an...
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour _you_, if a man take _of you_, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. Ver. 20. _For ye suffer, if, &c._] As the Popish...
_Seeing that many glory after the flesh_ In circumcision, Jewish extraction, and other outward privileges and qualifications; _I will glory also_ In the same manner; nor can my seeming folly offend yo...
FOR YE SUFFER; that is, ye endure patiently. He now adduces the proof that they suffer fools gladly. BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE; by usurping dominion over you. DEVOUR YOU; devour your property. TAKE OF...
FOR YE SUFFER, IF A MAN BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE, IF A MAN DEVOUR YOU, IF A MAN TAKE OF YOU, IF A MAN EXALT HIMSELF, IF A MAN SMITE YOU ON THE FACE. The apostle has now sufficiently characterized the na...
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS APOSTOLIC CALLING. Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:...
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...
16-21 It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves, in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must direct in what it is needful to do things which we may do...
If any domineer over you, as if you were their slaves, or if any bring you into subjection to the rites of the ceremonial law; if they DEVOUR and make a prey of you, take wages of you, and do nothing...
For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face....
Tertullian On Modesty Is he not even then "smiting some one's face,"[145]...
2 Corinthians 11:20 For G1063 with G430 (G5736) one G1536 brings G2615 you G5209 bondage G2615 (G5719)
‘For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he smites you...
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 11:20. FOR YE BEAR WITH A MAN IF, etc. The five things here said to be borne with are clearly just the things which the Corinthians had suffered those deceitful workers to do against him...
FOR YE BEAR WITH A MAN (ανεχεσθε γαρ). " You tolerate tyranny, extortion, craftiness, arrogance, violence, and insult" (Plummer). Sarcasm that cut to the bone. Note the verb with each of the five c...
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...
YOU TOLERATE ANYONE. "You certainly have great patience! You tolerate these false apostles when they take your money to support themselves in luxury, and you tolerate them when they give you a _hard t...
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 11:16. 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
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 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Galatians 2:4; Galatians 4:25;...
Bringeth you into bondage [κ α τ α δ ο υ λ ο ι]. Only here and Galatians 2:4, where it is used of the efforts of the Jewish party to bring the christian Church under the ceremonial law. Compare Galati...
For ye suffer — Not only the folly, but the gross abuses, of those false apostles. If a man enslave you — Lord it over you in the most arbitrary manner. If he devour you — By his exorbitant demands; n...