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Verse 26. IN _JOURNEYINGS OFTEN_] He means the particular journeys
which he took to different places, for the purpose of propagating the
Gospel.
IN _PERILS OF WATERS_] Exposed to great dangers in cro...
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IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN - Of course subject to the fatigue, toil, and
danger which such a mode of life involves.
IN PERILS OF WATERS - In danger of losing my life at sea, or by
floods, or by crossing st...
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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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JOURNEY. inv. Greek. _hodoiporia._ Only here and John 4:6. Compare
Acts 10:9.
PERILS. Greek. _kindunos._ Only in this verse and Item. 2Co 8:35,
ROBBERS. bandits. Greek. _lestes._ See John 18:40.
BY.
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_in perils of waters_ Literally, RIVERS (_flodis_, Wiclif). Cf. 1
Corinthians 15:30. When bridges were rare, such perils were frequent.
What they are, even now, in less civilized regions, the recent l...
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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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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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ὉΔΟΙΠΟΡΊΑΙΣ ΠΟΛΛΆΚΙΣ. The omission of ἐν may be
marked in English by a change of preposition; BY _journeyings often,
perils of_ RIVERS, _perils of robbers, perils_ FROM KINDRED, _perils
from_ GENTILES...
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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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IN PERILS OF WATERS,— Or, _of rivers:_ the word should certainly be
so rendered, to contradistinguish these hazards, from those which he
underwent by _sea._ In the _city,_ means not only in Jerusalem,...
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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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In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in
perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in
the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea,...
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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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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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_(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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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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IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN. — Again we enter on a list of activities and
sufferings of which this is the only, or nearly the only, record. Some
of them may be referred to journeys (as above) before his arri...
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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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ὁδοιπορίαις πολλ. κ. τ. λ.: _in journeyings often_
(of the extent of which the _Acts_ gives us some idea; their dangers
are now enumerated), _in perils of rivers, sc._, from swollen torrents
dangerous...
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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 26 Travel was dangerous in those days. Gentiles were enraged
because he turned some away from idols. False brethren may have sought
to ruin him, as in Corinth....
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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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By _perils from the nation _he means those that befell him from his
own nation, in consequence of the hatred, that was kindled against him
among all the Jews. On the other hand, he had the Gentiles as...
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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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IN JOURNEYING OFTEN,.... Through several countries and kingdoms to
preach the Gospel, as he did from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum:
IN PERILS OF WATERS; by the floods being out, which made it ve...
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_In_ journeyings often, _in_ perils of waters, _in_ perils of robbers,
_in_ perils by _mine own_ countrymen, _in_ perils by the heathen, _in_
perils in the city, _in_ perils in the wilderness, _in_ pe...
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_In journeyings_ For the sake of preaching the gospel; _often_ In
which I have been exposed to a variety of dangers, from _waters,
robbers, my own countrymen_, and _the heathen. In perils in the city_...
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IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF WATERS, IN PERILS OF ROBBERS, IN
PERILS BY MINE OWN COUNTRYMEN, IN PERILS BY THE HEATHEN, IN PERILS IN
THE CITY, IN PERILS IN THE WILDERNESS, IN PERILS IN THE SEA, 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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IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN; in travellings from place to place for the
propagation of the gospel. IN PERILS OF WATERS; in the Greek, rivers,
which were many in those countries through which he travelled. OF...
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in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in
perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in
the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in...
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2 Corinthians 11:26 journeys G3597 often G4178 perils G2794 waters
G4215 perils G2794 robbers G3027 perils G2794 of...
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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 11:26. IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF RIVERS having
perhaps to swim across swollen rivers at the risk of life, IN PERILS
OF ROBBERS for some of the mountainous regions which he trave...
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IN JOURNEYINGS
(οδοιποριαις). Locative case of old word, only here in N.T.
and John 4:6, from οδοιπορος, wayfarer.IN PERILS
(κινδυνοις). Locative case of κινδυνος, old word for
danger or peril. In...
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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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IN MY MANY TRAVELS. Paul was constantly risking his life in many ways!
A few of these experiences are mentioned in the New Testament, but we
can only imagine what all Paul endured for the mission he h...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:25 BEATEN WITH RODS. This was
the Gentile punishment for disturbing the peace (Acts 16:22,...
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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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_In_ _perils by my own countrymen._ Through the plots that the Jews
often entered into against him (Anselm).
_In painfulness. Ærumna_ (Latin version), which, says Cicero, is
laborious toil, as, _e.g_...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:32; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2
Corinthians 1:8;...
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Perils of rivers. From the sudden swelling of mountain streams or
flooding of dry water - courses. "The rivers of Asia Minor, like all
the rivers in the Levant, are liable to violent and sudden change...