Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 11:33
Verse 33 Here was an embarrassing escape from wicked hands. With the gates closely guarded, he was forced to leave by a window from a house along the wall.
Verse 33 Here was an embarrassing escape from wicked hands. With the gates closely guarded, he was forced to leave by a window from a house along the wall.
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:33. _THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET_] Probably the house was situated on the wall of the city. See the notes on this history, Acts 9:23. IN ver. 2 of this chapter 2 Cor
AND THROUGH A WINDOW - That is, through a little door or aperture in the wall; perhaps something like an embrasure, that might have been large enough to allow a man to pass through it. Luke says Acts...
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...
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...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
THROUGH. Greek. _dia._ App-104. 2 Corinthians 11:1. WINDOW. Greek. _thuris._ See Acts 20:9. BASKET. Greek. _sargane._ Only here. In Acts 9:25 the word is _spuris._ LET DOWN. Gr
_in a basket_ The word literally means a PLAITED CORD. Hence a basket made of cords. The word in Acts 9:25 is not the same. _was I let down by the wall_ Theodoret well remarks, "He shews the greatnes...
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...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
ΔΙᾺ ΘΥΡΊΔΟΣ. Literally, ‘a little door, small opening,’ dim. of θύρα; elsewhere in the N.T. only Acts 20:9. An aperture in the wall is still shown as the place. “In the traditions of Damascus the inci...
32, 33. It has been proposed by Holsten, Hilgenfeld, Schmiedel, Baljon, and others to strike out these two verses, with or without all or the first part of 2 Corinthians 12:1, as a rather clumsy gloss...
22–33. Now follows the actual glorying. Several times he had begun this assertion of himself (2 Corinthians 10:7-8; 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:7;...
_ QUALITIES OF THE TRUE APOSTLESHIP -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-33:_ None of Paul's critics could boast of any advantage over him in a physical sense. He said, "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So...
ΘΥΡΊΔΟΣ _gen. от_ ΘΥΡΊΣ (G2376) окно. Маленькое отверстие в стене, через которое опустили вниз Св. Павла (Plummer). ΣΑΡΓΆΝΗ (G4553) _dat. sing._ корзина, плетеный короб, ΈΧΑΛΆΣΘΗΝ _aor. ind. pass. о...
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 Is...
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...
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...
11:33 by (b-12) Or 'through,' _ dia_ ....
_(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...
PARAPHRASE. 'If, however, I must boast in self-defence, I shall boast about my weakness and helplessness; for I shall thus make it plain what Christ has done by means of such a feeble servant. (31) An...
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...
THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET... — On the mode of escape, see Notes on Acts 9:24. So the spies escaped from the house of Rahab (Joshua 2:15), and David from the pursuit of Saul (1 Samuel 19:12). The wo...
CHAPTER 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are partly connected with its form, partly with its substance: it will...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
PRE-EMINENT IN LABOR AND SUFFERING 2 Corinthians 11:22 It has been truly said that this enumeration represents a life which up to that hour had been without precedent in the history of the world. Sel...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! who can behold the warmth and zeal of the Apostle in his godly jealousy over the Corinthian Church, in their espousals to Christ, without feeling an anxiety and jealousy over our o...
(32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: (33) And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and esc...
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,...
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...
AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN,.... The house in which he was, like Rahab's, was built upon the wall of the city, and as she let down the spies by a cord through the window, and as Da...
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. Ver. 33. _And through a window, &c._] An honest shift, though against the Roman law of leaping over the walls. _Qui...
_In Damascus_, &c. As if he had said, I must be permitted to add one circumstance more to illustrate the dangers to which I was exposed, as soon as I engaged in the Christian cause, and the remarkable...
A further recital of hardships and difficulties:...
AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN BY THE WALL, AND ESCAPED HIS HANDS. The first rhetorical questions contain a further explanation of the fact that Paul was burdened with the details of...
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...
22-33 The apostle gives an account of his labours and sufferings; not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ; and shows...
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and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands. [In the walled cities of the Orient, houses were often built against the walls so that the windows projected over th...
2 Corinthians 11:33 but G2532 down G5465 (G5681) in G1722 basket G4553 through G1223 window G2376 in G122
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...
‘In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me, and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.' He finishes...
2 Corinthians 11:33. AND THROUGH A WINDOW WAS I LET DOWN IN A BASKET BY THE WALL or ‘over' it; that is, from an overhanging house, such as is still to be seen at Damascus (and see Joshua 2:15; 1 Samue...
THROUGH A WINDOW (δια θυριδος). For this late word see on Acts 20:9, the only N.T. example.WAS I LET DOWN (εχαλασθην). First aorist passive of χαλαω, the very word used by Luke in Acts 9:25.IN A...
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...
WHEN I WAS IN DAMASCUS. See note on Acts 9:23. Paul adds this account as an afterthought. It may be that the false teacher had widely circulated this account, hoping to embarrass Paul with it. Here he...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:32 Having to flee IN A BASKET was a striking example of Paul’s “weakness” (v. 2 Corinthians 11:30
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...
_And through a window in a basket was I let down._ This escape of S. Paul from Damascus happened in the year 39 (Act 9:25), when, as Josephus says, Aretas, King of Arabia and of the country near Damas...
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 Samuel 19:12; Joshua 2:18...
Through a window [δ ι α θ υ ρ ι δ ο ς]. Only here and Acts 20:9. Diminutive of qura a door. The same expression is used in Sept., Joshua 2:15, of the escape of the spies from Jericho, and 1 Samuel 19:...
Through a window — Of an house which stood on the city wall....