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Verse 2 Corinthians 12:13. _FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YOU WERE
INFERIOR_] This is a fine, forcible, yet delicate _stroke_. It was
_your_ duty and your interest to have supported your apostle; other
Chur...
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FOR WHAT IS IT ... - This verse contains a striking mixture of sarcasm
and irony, not exceeded, says Bloomfield, by any example in
Demosthenes. the sense is,” I have given among you the most ample
pro...
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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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WERE INFERIOR. Greek. _hetiaomai_. Only here and 2 Peter 2:19.
Literally, "were worsted".
TO. beyond. Greek. _huper._ App-104.
OTHER. = the rest of. App-124 2Co 124:3.
CHURCHES. App-186.
EXCEPT. Gr...
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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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_For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches (hadden
lesse than_, Wiclif). There is no need to regard this, with some
commentators, as "bitter irony." There is nothing bitter about it.
I...
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ἩΣΣΏΘΗΤΕ (אBD), after the analogy of ἐλασσόω, rather
than ἡττήθητε (א3AD2D3KLP), from ἡττάω.
13. The Corinthians had had the distinction of these miracles and
supernatural gifts; and in nothing had an...
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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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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it
be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
WHEREIN YOU WERE INFERIOR - i:e., were treated with less
con...
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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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FORGIVE ME] The verse is ironical....
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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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WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES? — His mind
travels back to the insinuation that he cared less for them than he
did for the churches of Macedonia, because he had maintained his
i...
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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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THE FOREGOING TESTIMONY TO HIS CLAIMS OUGHT TO HAVE COME FROM THE
CORINTHIANS WHO WITNESSED HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS....
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τί γάρ ἐστιν ὃ ἡσσ. κ. τ. λ.: _for what is there
wherein ye were treated as inferior_ (_cf._ 2 Peter 2:19) _to the rest
of the churches, except indeed that I myself did not burden you? Cf._
Acts 20:33...
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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 13 In fact, the church at Corinth had the same blessings and
gifts as any church started by an apostle. The only thing they lacked
was a demand of high wages by Paul, like the false apostles had...
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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it
be] that I myself was not (m) burdensome to you? forgive me this
wrong.
(m) I was not slothful with my own hands, so that I might...
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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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13._What is there in which. _Here is an aggravation of their
ingratitude — that he had been distinguished, that they might
receive benefit — that they had derived advantage from the
attestation furnis...
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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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FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES,.... The
apostle here suggests, and appeals to themselves for the truth of it,
that in nothing they came short of other churches; that as he w...
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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except _it
be_ that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
Ver. 13. _Forgive me this wrong_] A pleasant irony, such as w...
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2 Cor. 12:13. "Whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell."
When the apostle said, _absent from the body and present with the
Lord, _ he doubtless meant by _absent from the body_, the same...
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_Truly the signs of an apostle_ The signs whereby a person was known
to be an apostle, were his performing great and evident miracles
openly in the view of the world, especially his healing diseases,...
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WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES; in the quality of the ministry
enjoyed by you.
WAS NOT BURDENSOME; did not receive my support from you.
FORGIVE ME THIS WRONG; said in irony....
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FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES, EXCEPT IT
BE THAT I MYSELF WAS NOT BURDENSOME TO YOU? FORGIVE ME THIS WRONG!...
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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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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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Wherein have not you been used as any other gospel churches were,
where Peter, or James, or any other of the apostles have laboured?
Hath not the same doctrine been preached to you? Have not as great...
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For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the
churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive
me this wrong. [And you are without excuse in thus compelling m...
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The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity
quarrelsomeness, injustice,[70]...
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2 Corinthians 12:13 For G1063 what G5101 it G2076 (G5748) which G3739
inferior G2274 (G5681) to G5228
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‘For what is there wherein you were made inferior to the rest of the
churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive
me this wrong.'
Indeed the only Apostolic ‘sign' that he did...
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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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2 Corinthians 12:13. FOR WHAT IS THERE WHEREIN YE WERE MADE INFERIOR
TO (placed at a disadvantage as compared with) THE REST OF THE
CHURCHES, EXCEPT _IT BE_ THAT I MYSELF WAS NOT A BURDEN TO YOU?
FORG...
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WHEREIN YE WERE MADE INFERIOR
(ο ησσωθητε). First aorist passive indicative of
ησσοομα, the text of Aleph B D instead of the usual
ηττηθητε from the common ητταομα to be inferior or less
from the c...
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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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HOW WERE YOU? In order to discredit Paul, the false teachers have said
that the fact he would not take their pay proved he did not really
love them, and that he thought they were inferior to the other...
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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 12:13 With playful irony, Paul
says that the only wrong he did the Corinthians was not asking them
for money (see 2 Corinthians 11:9 for the reaso
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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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_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 9:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 2
Corinthians 11:7;...
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Except that I was not a burden. Alluding to the possible objection
that his refusal to receive pay was a sign either of his want of power
to exact it, or of his want of affection for them (ch. 11 7)....