Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

2 Corinthians 10:11

τοῦτο λογιζέσθω. Count this: comp. 2 Corinthians 10:2; 2 Corinthians 10:7. It is as well to have the same English word throughout: the R.V. has a different word in each verse; ‘count,’ ‘consider,’ ‘reckon.’

οἷοί ἐσμεν … τοιοῦτοι. No doubt ἐσμεν (R.V.) and not ἐσόμεθα (A.V.) is to be supplied. ‘Will we be’ confines the meaning to the projected visit to Corinth. ‘When he comes, they will find that he can be as vigorous in action as in his letters.’ The meaning rather is, that such inconsistency as writing strongly and acting feebly is quite alien from him and impossible. One whose words and deeds do not correspond could not have founded and sustained a Christian Church in Corinth. For the opposition between λόγῳ and ἔργῳ comp. Romans 15:18; Acts 7:22. To omit διʼ ἐπιστολῶν would make the opposition more terse, but there is no reason for believing that the words are a gloss: no authority omits them. Note the chiasmus; τῷ λόγῳ�, παρόντες τῷ ἔργῳ: comp. 2 Corinthians 9:6.

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