George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Corinthians 11:10
The truth of Christ is in me. This is a kind of asseveration; I assure you by the truth of Christ, which is in me, that what I say is true, and that no one can deny it in Achaia. (Theodoret)
The truth of Christ is in me. This is a kind of asseveration; I assure you by the truth of Christ, which is in me, that what I say is true, and that no one can deny it in Achaia. (Theodoret)
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:10. _AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME_] εστιν αληθεια χριστου εν εμοι. _The truth of Christ is in me_. That is: I speak as becomes a Christian man, and as influenced by the Gospe...
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME - That is, I solemnly declare this as in the presence of Christ. As I am a Christian man; as I feel bound to declare the truth, and as I must answer to Christ. It is a...
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...
A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render se...
NO MAN, &c. Literally this glorying shall not (Greek. _ou)_ be stopped (Greek. _phrasso._ See Romans 3:19) to (Greek. _eis)_ me. BOASTING. Greek. _kauchesis_. See Romans 3:27, REGIONS. Greek. _klima_...
_As the truth of Christ is in me_ Rather, THE TRUTHE OF CRIST IS IN ME (Wiclif, whom the Geneva and Rheims versions follow here) or _if the truth_(Tyndale and Cranmer). "There is no oath" (Dean Alford...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
ΦΡΑΓΉΣΕΤΑΙ (אBDFKLMP) rather than σφραγίσεται, which Rec. has _de conjectura vel errore_ (Tisch.). 10. ἜΣΤΙΝ�. _The truth of Christ is in me that_. This is not exactly an oath; ‘I swear by the truth o...
_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
ΈΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. Гл. эмфатический по положению в предложении, ΆΛΉΘΕΙΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΎ истина Христа. Это выражение указывает на интенсивность чувств Павла, его следует воеприним...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15) 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Greek, 'There is (the) truth of Christ in me that,' etc. (Romans 9:1). NO MAN SHALL STOP ME OF, [ o...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME] an adjuration calculated to impress them: cp. Romans 9:1 THIS BOASTING] of preaching the gospel without cost to them....
_(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...
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...
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME.. — The formula is almost, though not quite, of the nature of an oath. He speaks here, as in Romans 9:1, in the consciousness that the truth of Christ (the objective se...
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...
HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
ἔστιν ἀλήθ. Χρ. κ. τ. λ.: _as the Truth of Christ_ (we have ἡ ἀλήθ. τ. Θεοῦ, Romans 1:25; Romans 3:7; Romans 15:8; _cf._ John 14:6;...
CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS 2 Corinthians 11:10 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts with himself...
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...
VERSE 10 While in Achaia, Paul would continue to refuse help from them, and would continue to boast about it....
As the (g) truth of Christ is in me, no man shall (h) stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. (g) This is a form of an oath, as if he said, "Let me not be thought to have any truth in me....
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
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,...
10._The truth of Christ is in me. _Lest any one should suspect, that Paul’s words were designed to induce the Corinthians to be more liberal to him in future, and endeavor to make amends for their err...
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...
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME,.... To show the firmness of his resolution, and how determined he was to abide by it, he joins an oath to it; for these words are the form of an oath; and it is as if...
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Ver. 10. _As the truth of Christ is in me_] He confirms it with an oath, that he will not take a penny...
_As the truth of Christ is in me_ As sure as I am a true Christian, and an apostle. The expression has the nature of an oath. See on Romans 9:1. _No man shall stop me of this boasting_ For I will rece...
OF THIS BOASTING; that I preach without receiving support from those to whom I preach....
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:...
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME, NO MAN SHALL STOP ME OF THIS BOASTING IN THE REGIONS OF ACHAIA....
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...
NO MAN SHALL STOP ME IN THIS BOASTING: _ Gr._ this boasting shall not be stopped in me...
5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
The apostle often repeateth this, glorying much in it, that in this region of Achaia he had preached the gospel without charge to the hearers: he did so also at Thessalonica, 1 THESSALONIANS 2:5,6,9;...
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia....
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‘As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I love you not? God knows.' And ‘as the truth of Christ is in him'. That is what matt...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:10. AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME not quite an oath, but a very solemn asseveration, NO MAN SHALL STOP ME OF THIS GLORYING IN THE REGIONS OF ACHAIA (of which Corinth was the capital...
NO MAN SHALL STOP ME OF THIS GLORYING (η καυχησις αυτη ου φραγησετα εις εμε). More exactly, "This glorying shall not be fenced in as regards me." Second future passive of φρασσω, to fence in, to st...
2 Corinthians 11:10 Fancied Wisdom. I. The influence exercised by the Judaising teachers at Corinth was so noxious that the Apostle found himself most unwillingly driven to the ungracious task of boa...
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...
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...
BY CHRIST'S TRUTH IN ME. This is a strong affirmation of what he says!!! Conditions at Corinth make it important that he does not allow them to give him money to live on!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:9 Paul refused to accept money from the Corinthians because he had to distinguish his ministry from that of the false apostles. They labored in Corinth out of gr...
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...
_As the truth of Christ is in me._ I speak in the truth of Christ; I call His truth to witness; I swear to you in truth and holiness by Christ ("under the testimony of Christ," Ambrose) that I wilt ta...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:7. OR.—Turning to another topic. OFFENCE.—Lit. “_Sin_.” FREELY.—_I.e. “without charge_.” Cf. Philippians 4:12. 2 Corinthians 11:8
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 ...
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,...
1 Corinthians 16:15; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 1:8;...
No man shall stop me of this boasting [η κ α υ χ η σ ι ς α υ τ η ο υ φ ρ α γ η σ ε τ α ι ε ι ς ε μ ε]. Lit., this boasting shall not be blocked up as regards me. The boasting is that of preaching grat...
This my boasting shall not be stopped — For I will receive nothing from you....