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Verse 24. _OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY_ STRIPES _SAVE_
_ONE._] That is, he was five times scourged by the Jews, whose law
(Deuteronomy 25:3) allowed forty stripes; but they, pretending to...
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OF THE JEWS ... - On this verse and the following verse it is of
importance to make a few remarks preliminary to the explanation of the
phrases:
(1) It is admitted that the particulars here referred...
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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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OF. By. Greek. _hupo._ App-104.
FORTY. See Deuteronomy 25:3.
SAVE. beside. Greek _para._ App-104....
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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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_Of the Jews_ Literally, UNDER JEWS, as though it were a disgrace to
them to have treated one of their brethren thus. Cf. St Matthew 10:17.
_forty stripes save one_ Cf. Deuteronomy 25:3. The Mishna (_...
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24–28. We have, in rough order, three groups; 1. the details of
being ἐν θανάτοις πολλάκις (2 Corinthians
11:24-25); 2. the details of being ὁδοιπορίαις
πολλάκις (2 Corinthians 11:26); 3. a variety of...
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ὙΠῸ ἸΟΥΔΑΊΩΝ. These words belong to the first clause
only: perhaps he meant to go on to ὑπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, but
forgot to make the formal antithesis. For this use of ὑπό comp. 1
Corinthians 10:9; 1 Thessal...
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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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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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DISCOURSE: 2041
ST. PAUL’S ZEAL ILLUSTRATED AND IMPROVED
2 Corinthians 11:23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool)
I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in
prison...
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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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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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Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
ordained that not more than forty stripes should be inflicted. To
avoid exceeding this number, they gave one short of it-thirteen
strokes...
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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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11:24 one. (c-12) * See Deuteronomy 25:3 ....
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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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FORTY _stripes_ SAVE ONE] A Jewish punishment: cp. Deuteronomy 25:3.
Only thirty-nine were given lest by a miscount the number were
exceeded. None of the five cases is mentioned in Acts....
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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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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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OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. — None of
these are recorded in the Acts. It is probable that the words refer to
the early period of his work in Cilicia, which is implied tho...
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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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ὑπὸ Ἰουδ. κ. τ. λ.: _of the Jews five times received I
forty_ stripes (there is an ellipse of πληγάς as at Luke 12:47)
_save one_. The Law forbad more than forty stripes (Deuteronomy 25:3);
and, to be...
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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 24 The law allowed forty (Deuteronomy 25:2), but they left one
off to avoid breaking the law by accidental miscount....
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Of the Jews (p) five times received I forty [stripes] save one.
(p) He alludes to that which is written in (Deuteronomy 25:3). And
moreover this place shows us that Paul suffered many more things whi...
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The Jews had power under the Romans to inflict punishments, not indeed
capital, but corporal, such as flogging, &c. See Mark xiii. 9. The
law, in Deuteronomy xxv. 3. permitted, but did not command, fo...
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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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24._From the Jews. _It is certain that the Jews had at that time been
deprived of jurisdiction, but as this was a kind of moderate
punishment (as they termed it) it is probable that it was allowed
the...
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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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OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. We have no
account in the Acts of the Apostles, or elsewhere, of any one of these
five scourgings, which the apostle underwent from the Jews;...
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Of the Jews five times received I forty _stripes_ save one.
Ver. 24. _Forty stripes save one_] That they might be sure not to
exceed the set number of stripes, limited by the law, Deuteronomy 25:3
....
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_Are they ministers of Christ?_ “St. Paul does not compare himself
with the false teachers as an apostle, but as a minister of Christ
simply. And to show how much he exceeded them in that inferior
cha...
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OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE....
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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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God, to restrain the passions of his people, which might carry them
out to cruelty in the punishments of malefactors, forbade the Jewish
magistrates to give any malefactor above forty stripes; (so man...
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Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. [Deuteronomy
25:2. The law limited all beatings to forty stripes; but one stripe
was omitted lest the law should be accidentally broken throug...
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2 Corinthians 11:24 From G5259 Jews G2453 times G3999 received G2983
(G5627) forty G5062 minus G3844 one...
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‘Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one. Thrice
was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep, in journeyings
ofte...
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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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2 Corinthians 11:24. OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES
SAVE ONE. Not one of these cases is recorded in the Acts. The rule,
not to exceed forty, was very strict, and for a merciful reason...
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FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE
(πεντακις τεσσερακοντα παρα μιαν
ελαβον). The Acts and the Epistles are silent about these Jewish
floggings (Matthew 27:36). See on Luke 12:47 for omissi...
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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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THE THIRTY-NINE LASHES. The Law allowed forty lashes (Deuteronomy
25:1-3), but they always stopped one short, to avoid breaking the law.
_Josephus_ says this sometimes caused death. The fact that Paul...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:24 FORTY LASHES LESS ONE. The
Jewish punishment of 39 lashes was given by the synagogue for false
teaching, blasphemy, and serious lawbreaking. All of these char...
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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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Deuteronomy 25:2; Deuteronomy 25:3; Mark 13:9; Matthew 10:17...
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Five times I received from the Jews forty stripes save one — Which
was the utmost that the law allowed. With the Romans he sometimes
pleaded his privilege as a Roman; but from the Jews he suffered all...
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The law in Deuteronomy 25:3 allowed forty stripes to be given to them
that were worthy to be beaten, but forbade them to exceed that number:
But it being their custom to beat them with. whip that had...