I trust that you will permit me to speak in my own praise, since as wise as you are, you have permitted others, who have not greater wisdom than myself. And if it be folly to praise one's self, as you have pardoned them, I trust you will also pardon me. (Calmet)
Verse 19. _YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, SEEING YE_ YOURSELVES _ARE_ _WISE._] A very fine irony. Ye are so profoundly _wise_ as to be able to discern that I am a _fool_. Well, it would be dishonourable to y...
FOR YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY - You tolerate or endure those who are really fools. This is perhaps, says Dr. Bloomfield, the most sarcastic sentence ever penned by the apostle Paul. Its sense is, “You pr...
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...
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...
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...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
SUFFER. Same as "bear with", 2 Corinthians 11:1. GLADLY. Greek. _hedeos_. Only here, 2Co 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:15.Mark 8:12;...
_For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise_ Literally, FOR GLADLY DO YE TOLERATE MEN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, BEING PRUDENT (or perhaps better SENSIBLE MEN). The word here translated _su...
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...
ἩΔΈΩΣ ΓᾺΡ�. The ἡδέως is emphatic by position, and τῶν� and φρόνιμοι are in emphatic juxtaposition. _For_ GLADLY YE BEAR WITH (as in 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:4) THE FOOLISH, BECAUSE _ye ar...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
16–21. Like 2 Corinthians 11:1-6, these six verses are ‘again’ introductory to the glorying which follows, apologizing for the folly of it....
_ BOASTING DONE WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16-21:_ Paul did not want these brethren to think he was a fool. But even if they did accept him as a fool he needed to boast a little. Paul u...
ΉΔΈΩΣ (G2234) _adv._ радостно, с ликованием. Павел говорит с острейшей иронией (BD, 262). ΆΝΈΧΕΣΘΕ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΝΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G430) терпеть, выносить кого-л., с последующим _gen._ ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟ...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 11:16-21 a. I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little. 17 That which I speak, I...
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...
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. GLADLY - willingly. Irony. It is a mark of the wise to bear with fools. A plea w...
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...
_(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...
SUFFER] RV 'bear with.'...
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...
YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, SEEING YE YOURSELVES ARE WISE. — He falls back into the strain of irony of 1 Corinthians 4:8, to which, indeed, the whole passage presents a striking parallelism. He assumes th...
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...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
ἡδέως γὰρ ἀνέχεσθε κ. τ. λ.: _for ye bear with the foolish, i.e._, the false teachers, _gladly, being wise yourselves_, the latter clause being, of course, ironical, although (see reff.) it was true t...
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 19 They thought so highly of themselves that they patiently listened to foolish boasters....
(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...
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,...
19._For ye bear with fools willingly. _He calls them _wise _— in my opinion, _ironically. _He was despised by them, which could not have been, had they not been puffed up with the greatest arrogance ...
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...
FOR YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY,.... They bore with the false apostles, who were fools; were continually proclaiming their folly, boasting of themselves, ascribing that to themselves which did not belong t...
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye _yourselves_ are wise. Ver. 19. _For ye suffer fools_] _Inter indoctos etiam Corydus sonat._ (Quintilian.) Wise men hold them for fools whom fools admire for wis...
_Seeing that many glory after the flesh_ In circumcision, Jewish extraction, and other outward privileges and qualifications; _I will glory also_ In the same manner; nor can my seeming folly offend yo...
YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY; your persuasion of your own wisdom makes it easy for you to bear with the conduct of fools. He alludes to their false teachers, who without any good reason boasted of their pre...
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS APOSTOLIC CALLING. Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:...
FOR YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, SEEING YE YOURSELVES ARE WISE....
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...
16-21 It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves, in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must direct in what it is needful to do things which we may do...
Ye freely suffer others foolishly glorying and boasting of themselves, therefore do ye suffer me therein to judge yourselves wise, and it belongs to the wise to bear with such as are not so wise as th...
For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves....
Epistle of Theonas to Lucianus And do thou, my dearest Lucianus, since thou art wise, bear with good-will the unwise;[20]...
2 Corinthians 11:19 For G1063 up G430 (G5736) fools G878 gladly G2234 are G5607 (G5752) wise G5429...
‘For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he smites you...
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 11:19. FOR YE BEAR FOR THE FOOLISH GLADLY, BEING WISE YOURSELVES. ‘As the wise, pitying the foolish, put up with their foolishness, so put ye up with me while I tell you what I have to b...
GLADLY (ηδεως). Irony again. Cf. καλος in 2 Corinthians 11:4 (Mark 7:9). So as to φρονιμο οντες (being wise)....
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...
ARE SO WISE. He speaks in irony. Compare 1 Corinthians 4:10 and note....
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...
_For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise._ Irony. You have foolishly suffered the boastings of these vain-glorious false apostles; I hope that you will suffer me to glory wisely and...
_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
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 10:15; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Revelation 3:17...
Being wise — A beautiful irony....