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Verse 22. _ARE THEY HEBREWS_] Speaking the _sacred language_, and
_reading_ in the congregation from the Hebrew Scriptures? the same is
my own language.
_ARE THEY ISRAELITES_] Regularly descended fro...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS? - This proves that the persons who had made the
difficulty in Corinth were those who were of Hebrew extraction though
it may be that they had been born in Greece and had been educate...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS? &c. These questions are an example of the Figure of
speech _Epiphoza._ App-6....
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_Are they Hebrews_?] We may take the words Hebrew, Israelite, seed of
Abraham, as referring respectively to the _nationality, theocratic
condition_, and _Messianic rights_of the Jewish people. Thus th...
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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...
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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;...
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22. He begins by comparing himself point by point with the Judaizers,
who had, no doubt, urged these very points in their own favour. He has
been answering their attacks on him, implying throughout th...
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GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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_ 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...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS?— Mr. Locke observes, that though the Apostle makes
use of the plural number _they,_ it is his opinion that he means but
one person; as after, when he says _we,_ he means only himself...
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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...
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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...
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Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the
seed of Abraham? so am I.
HEBREWS ... ISRAELITES ... THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. A climax, - "Hebrews"
referring to the language and n...
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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...
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_(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...
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PARAPHRASE. 'I confess to my shame I was far too weak, as they call
it, to act in that way. But if there is to be boasting, I am a fool
and can boast too. (22) Are they of the chosen race claiming Abr...
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HEBREWS] by descent. ISRAELITES] in privilege.
THE SEED OF ABRAHAM] in respect of promised blessings. There is
probably a climax in the order....
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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...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS? — This, then, was one of their boasts. They were
Jews of Palestine, speaking Aramaic, reading the Law and Prophets in
the original. He, they asserted, or implied, was a Hellenistic J...
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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...
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Ἑβραῖοί εἰσι; κἀγώ : _are they Hebrews? so am I_.
At a later period the term Ἑβραῖος was not confined to
Palestinian Jews (Eus., _H.E._, ii., 4, 2, iii. 4, 2), but expressed
mere nationality. However...
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HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
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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...
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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...
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VERSE 22 The false teachers are now clearly seen as Judaizers. Paul
was their equal in that religion, despite their apparent claims to the
contrary (Acts 22:2-3; 1 Peter 3:5)....
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(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...
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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,...
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22.He now, by enumerating particular instances, lets them see more
distinctly, that he would not by any means be found inferior, if
matters came to a contest. And in the first place, he makes mention...
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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...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I,.... The nation of the Jews were called
Hebrews, not from Abraham, as some have w thought, through ignorance
of the Hebrew language, which will by no means admit of such a
de...
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Are they Hebrews? so _am_ I. Are they Israelites? so _am_ I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? so _am_ I.
Ver. 22. _Are they Israelites_] God's select, peculiar. "Happy art
thou, O Israel; who is like un...
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_Are they Hebrews?_ Descended from Heber, (see Genesis 11:14,) and
speaking the Hebrew language, though with some variation; _so am I_
Paul indeed was a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but his father and...
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ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I. ARE THEY ISRAELITES? SO AM I. ARE THEY THE
SEED OF ABRAHAM? SO AM I....
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The apostle's commendation of himself:...
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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...
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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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ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I: this would incline us to think, that some,
at least, of those corrupt teachers, upon whom the apostle hath so
much reflected, were Jews; who had endeavoured to corrupt the G...
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Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the
seed of Abraham? so am I. [This verse shows clearly that Paul's
enemies were Judaizing Jews. They had evidently boasted of their r...
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Origen de Principiis Book II
For what other forefathers of Paul can be intended, except those of
whom he says, "Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am
I."[44]...
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2 Corinthians 11:22 they G1526 (G5748) Hebrews G1445 I G2504 they
G1526 (G5748) Israelites G2475 I G2504
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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...
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‘Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? so am I.'
His roots are every bit as good as theirs. They boast of their
antecedents as ‘true Hebrew speaking Je...
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2 Corinthians 11:22. ARE THEY HEBREWS? of pure Hebrew descent (compare
Acts 6:1; Philippians 3:5), SO AM I. ARE THEY ISRAELITES? children of
the covenant, SO AM I. ARE THEY THE SEED OF ABRAHAM and hei...
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SO AM I
(καγω). This is his triumphant refrain with each challenge....
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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...
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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...
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HEBREWS? This means a Jew who preserved his national language and
customs, a kind of _super-patriot._ Compare note on Acts 9:1.
ISRAELITES? One of God's own people. Compare Romans 9:4; Romans 11:1.
AB...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:21 HEBREWS 1:1 refers to
Jewish ethnicity; ISRAELITES refers to being God’s cho
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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...
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_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
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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 ...
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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,...
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2 Chronicles 20:7; Acts 22:3; Exodus 10:3; Exodus 3:18; Exodus 5:3;...
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Hebrews. See on Acts 6:1.
Israelites. See on Acts 3:12, and compare Philippians 3:5, and the
phrase Israel of God, Galatians 6:16, and an Israelite indeed,...
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Are they Hebrews, Israelites, the seed of Abraham — These were the
heads on which they boasted....
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That is,. have suffered more for Christ, by stripes, by imprisonments,
by daily dying, that any of them have done.
Here note, That these false teachers, the Judaizing doctors, were most
certainly of t...