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Verse 2 Corinthians 12:11. _I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING_] It is not
the part of a _wise_ or _gracious_ man to _boast_; but _ye have
compelled_ _me_-I have been obliged to do it, in order to vindica...
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I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING - The meaning of this expression I take
to be this. “I have been led along in speaking of myself until I
admit I appear foolish in this kind of boasting. It is folly to...
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3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP.
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_
2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7)
3. The Marks of His Apos...
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RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid
oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the
same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2
Corin...
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THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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I have become a fool--you forced me to it. I ought to have been
commended by you, not by myself. I am in no way inferior to the
super-apostles, even if I am nothing. The signs of an apostle have
been...
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IN GLORYING, The texts omit.
COMMENDED. Greek. _sunistemi_. See 2 Corinthians 3:1,
OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104.
NOTHING. Greek. _oudeis._
AM. BEHIND. Greek _hustereo._ See Romans 3:23, and Compa...
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Continuation of the Defence
11. _I am become a fool in glorying_ Or perhaps, with some, _Have_I
become a fool? The words in _glorying_are not in the best MSS. and
versions. Thus Wiclif, following the...
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ἌΦΡΩΝ (אABDFGK, Latt. Copt. Aeth. Arm.) rather than ἄφρων
καυχώμενος (LP, Syrr. Goth.), which Rec. adopts.
11. The Apostle pauses and looks back at what he has been saying in
this most distasteful con...
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_SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11-13_ : Paul felt that he had
been forced to make a fool of himself. He knew that he was nothing. He
also knew that he was not at all inferior to these super-apo...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 2
Weakness in Bearing (2 Corinthians 12:11-18)
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been
commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to the...
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_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_
Admission of Foolishness
Scripture
2 Corinthians 12:11-13. I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I
ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the
very...
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I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to
have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very
chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
IN GLORYING. Omitted in...
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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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I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN COMMENDED] Instead of listening to his detractors
they should have vigorously defended him. THOUGH I BE NOTHING] i.e. as
my enemies say....
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HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS
The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation
he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses,
and especially on his bodily infir...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 12
V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions
and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
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I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING. — The two last words are wanting in
the better MSS., and the verse opens with a somewhat thrilling
abruptness, — _I am become insane_ — _it was you_ (emphatic) _who
com...
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CHAPTER 27
NOT YOURS, BUT YOU.
2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V)
EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief
paragraphs into which this passage may be divided:
(1) 2 Corinthians 12:...
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γέγονα ἄφρων · ὑμεῖς κ. τ. λ.: _I am become
foolish, sc._, boasting thus: _ye compelled me, i.e._, it was your
doing; _for I ought to have been commended by you_ (_cf._ 2
Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthian...
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THE FOREGOING TESTIMONY TO HIS CLAIMS OUGHT TO HAVE COME FROM THE
CORINTHIANS WHO WITNESSED HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS....
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“I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU”
2 Corinthians 12:11
“The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last
expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point
whence he diverged at...
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The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling
characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something
supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will
glory...
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VERSE 11 Since they would not defend him, the Corinthians forced Paul
into boasting. Paul knew that he was nothing without God. Even at
that, he was greater than those false teachers who set themselve...
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I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: (5) for I ought
to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very
chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
(5) Again he makes the...
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_Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the
humility of St. Paul, when forced to speak his own praises. --- The
signs and marks of my apostleship....on you, by your conversion,
espe...
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2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the
Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong
contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
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11._I have become a fool _Hitherto he had, by various apologies,
solicited their forgiveness for what was contrary to his own custom
and manner of acting, and contrary, also, to propriety, and what wa...
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Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would
glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his
natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
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I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING,.... This is either to be understood
conditionally, if he had acted as a fool in commending himself, or was
to be reckoned and called so by others, for glorying of himse...
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I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to
have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very
chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Ver. 11. _For in nothing a...
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_For this thing I besought the Lord thrice_ All kinds of affliction
had befallen the apostle, yet none of these did he deprecate. But here
he speaks of his thorn in the flesh, as above all the rest on...
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YE HAVE COMPELLED ME; your conduct has made it needful.
I BE NOTHING; in and of myself; all my sufficiency is of God....
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WHAT PAUL EXPECTS OF THE CORINTHIANS.
Their love should have commended him in his love for them:...
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I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING; YE HAVE COMPELLED ME; FOR I OUGHT TO
HAVE BEEN COMMENDED OF YOU; FOR IN NOTHING AM I BEHIND THE VERY
CHIEFEST APOSTLES, THOUGH I BE NOTHING....
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If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel
through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the
grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
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11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their
reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we
have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own the...
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I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING; I may amongst some of you (who
interpret all things I say into the worst sense) gain nothing but the
reputation of a weak man, wanting understanding, for speaking so mu...
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I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been
commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest
apostles, though I am nothing. [You, who should have spoken in my
defense...
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2 Corinthians 12:11 become G1096 (G5754) fool G878 boasting G2744
(G5740) you G5210 compelled G315 (G5656
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‘I am become foolish, you compelled me; for I ought to have been
commended of you. For in nothing was I behind the very highest ranking
apostles, though I am nothing. Truly the signs of an apostle wer...
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HE GLORIES IN WONDROUS EXPERIENCES, DREADFUL WEAKNESS AND THE
MANIFESTATION OF MIRACLES, IN ALL OF WHICH HE IS A MATCH FOR HIS
OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1)
Having stressed the differences between hi...
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_Self-Vindication resumed,_ 11-21.
2 Corinthians 12:11. I AM BECOME FOOLISH: YE COMPELLED ME; FOR I OUGHT
TO HAVE BEEN COMMENDED OF YOU: FOR IN NOTHING WAS I BEHIND THE VERY
CHIEFEST APOSTLES, THOUGH...
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I AM BECOME FOOLISH
(γεγονα αφρων). Perfect active indicative of γινομα.
In spite of what he said in verse 2 Corinthians 12:6 that he would not
be foolish if he gloried in the other Paul. But he fee...
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CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan.
CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian
overbalance all he is called upon to be...
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2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of
the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
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I AM ACTING LIKE A FOOL. "I know I am acting like a fool to come down
to your level and boast about such things, but you have forced me to
do it! You should have taken my part against the false teache...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast
in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity,
Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 SUPER-APOSTLES. See note
on 11:5–6. EVEN THOUGH I AM NOTHING. Paul was the “least of the
apostles,” having persecuted the churc
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CHAPTER 12
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he
describes his being carried up into the third heaven.
II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
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_I am become a fool in glorying._ I seem to have done foolishly in
praising myself, but you, who had of me a lower opinion than you
ought, and who gave more credence to the false apostles than to me,...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
(_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.)
2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember
how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...
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EXPOSITION
The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The
counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more
apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11
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It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in
Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2),
Or...
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1 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:4; 1
Corinthians 3:7;...
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I am become a fool in glorying. Ironical. By the record I have
presented I stand convicted of being foolish.
I ought to have been commended of you. You ought to have saved me the
necessity of recount...
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Though I am nothing — Of myself....
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Here again does our apostle excuse his boasting, and tells the
Corinthians that they had compelled him to it, and ought to have saved
him the labour of it, by defending him themselves. For he had done...