Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 11:18
Verse 18 The false teachers had boasted about fleshly things while downgrading Paul in the same. He now turns to show the weakness of their argument.
Verse 18 The false teachers had boasted about fleshly things while downgrading Paul in the same. He now turns to show the weakness of their argument.
Verse 18. _SEEING THAT MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH_] Boast of _external_ and _secular_ things....
SEEING THAT MANY GLORY ... - The false teachers in Corinth. They boasted of their birth, rank, natural endowments, eloquence, etc.; see 2 Corinthians 11:22. Compare Philippians 3:3. I WILL GLORY ALSO...
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...
SEEING THAT. Since. I, &c. Read. also, U....
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...
18. It is hard to decide between ΚΑΤᾺ ΤῊΝ ΣΆΡΚΑ (א3BD3KLMP) and κατὰ σάρκα (אDFGR 17, 71, 73). 18. ΚΑΤᾺ[ΤῊΝ]ΣΆΡΚΑ. See critical note. Everywhere else, and very frequently (2 Corinthians 1:17; 2 Corint...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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...
ΚΑΥΧΏΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ ΚΑΥΧΉΣΟΜΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться. О самовосхвалении в риторике _см._ Forbes, "Comparison, Self Praise and Irony" NTS 32 (1986): 8-1...
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...
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...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. MANY - including the 'false teachers.' AFTER THE FLESH - as fleshly men boast; namely, of external advantages, their birth, doings, etc...
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...
AFTER THE FLESH] i.e. of their worldly advantages: cp. 2 Corinthians 11:22; 2 Corinthians 11:23....
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...
SEEING THAT MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH. — To glory, or _boast,_ after the flesh, as interpreted by 2 Corinthians 5:16 (where see Note), is to lay stress on things which are the accidents of the spirit...
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...
ἐπεὶ πολλοὶ καυχῶνται κ. τ. λ.: _seeing that many, sc._, of the Corinthian Judaisers against whom this whole polemic is directed (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 2:17, where they are also alluded to as οἱ πολλοὶ,...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
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...
(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,...
18._Since many glory. _The meaning _is _— Should any one say to me, by way of objection, that what I do is faulty, what then as to others? Are not they my leaders? Am I alone, or am I the first, in _g...
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...
SEEING THAT MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH,.... Or with respect to things external, such as their high birth and parentage, carnal descent, circumcision, learned education, and the like; of which the fals...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Ver. 18. _Glory after the flesh_] Or in the flesh,Galatians 6:13, or have confidence in the flesh, Philippians 3:4 ....
_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...
MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH; in their birth, rank, and worldly distinctions....
SEEING THAT MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH, I WILL GLORY ALSO....
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...
By THE FLESH is meant, carnal and external things; which though they be the gifts and favours of God, yet do not at all commend a man to God. The apostle saith, there are MANY THAT GLORY AFTER THE FLE...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. [I am about to follow the carnal example of the boasters, that I may defeat them with their own weapon.]...
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II ; but (it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's sake,[35]...
2 Corinthians 11:18 that G1893 many G4183 boast G2744 (G5736) according G2596 flesh G4561 also G2504 boast...
‘Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.' His opponents are boasting like human beings because of their unspiritual nature, boasting in their human status and behaviour, glorying af...
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 11:16-18 . I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME FOOLISH; BUT IF YE DO SO, YET AS FOOLISH RECEIVE ME, THAT I ALSO MAY GLORY A LITTLE, etc. He feels the conflict between what may be called leg...
AFTER THE FLESH (κατα σαρκα). It is κατα σαρκα not κατα Κυριον.I ALSO (καγω). But he knows that it is a bit of foolishness and not like Christ....
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...
I WILL DO THE SAME. "I can boast about worldly things also!" _See_ 2 Corinthians 11:30....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16 In his arrogance the FOOL boasts in himself, not in the Lord (see 2 Corinthians 10:17). He is
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 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Peter 1:24; 2 Corinthians 10:12; 2 Corinthians 11:12;...
After the flesh — That is, in external things....
Here our apostle, with some kind of salt and smartness, reflects upon the Corinthians (whom ironically he calls wise men) for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by their false teachers, to be tyr...