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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...
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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...
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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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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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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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SUFFER. Same as "bear with", 2 Corinthians 11:1.
GLADLY. Greek. _hedeos_. Only here, 2Co 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:15.Mark
8:12;...
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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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_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...
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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...
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GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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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....
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_ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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SUFFER] RV 'bear with.'...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
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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...
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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 19 They thought so highly of themselves that they patiently
listened to foolish boasters....
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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...
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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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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 ...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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FOR YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, SEEING YE YOURSELVES ARE WISE....
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PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS APOSTOLIC CALLING.
Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:...
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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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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...
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For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves....
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Epistle of Theonas to Lucianus
And do thou, my dearest Lucianus, since thou art wise, bear with
good-will the unwise;[20]...
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2 Corinthians 11:19 For G1063 up G430 (G5736) fools G878 gladly G2234
are G5607 (G5752) wise G5429...
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‘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...
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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 11:19. 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...
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GLADLY
(ηδεως). Irony again. Cf. καλος in 2 Corinthians 11:4 (Mark
7:9). So as to φρονιμο οντες (being wise)....
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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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ARE SO WISE. He speaks in irony. Compare 1 Corinthians 4:10 and note....
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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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_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...
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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 10:15; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Revelation
3:17...
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Being wise — A beautiful irony....