The thirty-nine lashes. The Law allowed forty lashes (Deuteronomy 25:1-3), but they always stopped one short, to avoid breaking the law. Josephus says this sometimes caused death. The fact that Paul received this five times, shows that during his ministry there was no final separation between church and synagogue.
Verse 24. _OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY_ STRIPES _SAVE_ _ONE._] That is, he was five times scourged by the Jews, whose law (Deuteronomy 25:3) allowed forty stripes; but they, pretending to...
OF THE JEWS ... - On this verse and the following verse it is of importance to make a few remarks preliminary to the explanation of the phrases: (1) It is admitted that the particulars here referred...
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...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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...
OF. By. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. FORTY. See Deuteronomy 25:3. SAVE. beside. Greek _para._ App-104....
_Of the Jews_ Literally, UNDER JEWS, as though it were a disgrace to them to have treated one of their brethren thus. Cf. St Matthew 10:17. _forty stripes save one_ Cf. Deuteronomy 25:3. The Mishna (_...
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...
24–28. We have, in rough order, three groups; 1. the details of being ἐν θανάτοις πολλάκις (2 Corinthians 11:24-25); 2. the details of being ὁδοιπορίαις πολλάκις (2 Corinthians 11:26); 3. a variety of...
ὙΠῸ ἸΟΥΔΑΊΩΝ. These words belong to the first clause only: perhaps he meant to go on to ὑπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, but forgot to make the formal antithesis. For this use of ὑπό comp. 1 Corinthians 10:9; 1 Thessal...
22–33. Now follows the actual glorying. Several times he had begun this assertion of himself (2 Corinthians 10:7-8; 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:7;...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
_ QUALITIES OF THE TRUE APOSTLESHIP -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-33:_ None of Paul's critics could boast of any advantage over him in a physical sense. He said, "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So...
ΠΕΝΤΆΚΙΣ (G3999) пять раз. ΤΕΣΣΑΡΆΚΟΝΤΆ (G5062) сорок, ΠΑΡΆ ΜΊΑΝ (G3844; G1520) без одного. Это было иудейское наказание, основанное на Deuteronomy 25:2 и далее. Обе руки человека привязывались к ст...
DISCOURSE: 2041 ST. PAUL’S ZEAL ILLUSTRATED AND IMPROVED 2 Corinthians 11:23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Labors and Sufferings Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 11:21-33. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Is...
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...
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. ordained that not more than forty stripes should be inflicted. To avoid exceeding this number, they gave one short of it-thirteen strokes...
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...
11:24 one. (c-12) * See Deuteronomy 25:3 ....
PARAPHRASE. 'I confess to my shame I was far too weak, as they call it, to act in that way. But if there is to be boasting, I am a fool and can boast too. (22) Are they of the chosen race claiming Abr...
FORTY _stripes_ SAVE ONE] A Jewish punishment: cp. Deuteronomy 25:3. Only thirty-nine were given lest by a miscount the number were exceeded. None of the five cases is mentioned in Acts....
_(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...
OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. — None of these are recorded in the Acts. It is probable that the words refer to the early period of his work in Cilicia, which is implied tho...
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...
ὑπὸ Ἰουδ. κ. τ. λ.: _of the Jews five times received I forty_ stripes (there is an ellipse of πληγάς as at Luke 12:47) _save one_. The Law forbad more than forty stripes (Deuteronomy 25:3); and, to be...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
PRE-EMINENT IN LABOR AND SUFFERING 2 Corinthians 11:22 It has been truly said that this enumeration represents a life which up to that hour had been without precedent in the history of the world. Sel...
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 24 The law allowed forty (Deuteronomy 25:2), but they left one off to avoid breaking the law by accidental miscount....
Of the Jews (p) five times received I forty [stripes] save one. (p) He alludes to that which is written in (Deuteronomy 25:3). And moreover this place shows us that Paul suffered many more things whi...
The Jews had power under the Romans to inflict punishments, not indeed capital, but corporal, such as flogging, &c. See Mark xiii. 9. The law, in Deuteronomy xxv. 3. permitted, but did not command, fo...
(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,...
24._From the Jews. _It is certain that the Jews had at that time been deprived of jurisdiction, but as this was a kind of moderate punishment (as they termed it) it is probable that it was allowed the...
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...
OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. We have no account in the Acts of the Apostles, or elsewhere, of any one of these five scourgings, which the apostle underwent from the Jews;...
Of the Jews five times received I forty _stripes_ save one. Ver. 24. _Forty stripes save one_] That they might be sure not to exceed the set number of stripes, limited by the law, Deuteronomy 25:3 ....
_Are they ministers of Christ?_ “St. Paul does not compare himself with the false teachers as an apostle, but as a minister of Christ simply. And to show how much he exceeded them in that inferior cha...
OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE....
The apostle's commendation of himself:...
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...
22-33 The apostle gives an account of his labours and sufferings; not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ; and shows...
God, to restrain the passions of his people, which might carry them out to cruelty in the punishments of malefactors, forbade the Jewish magistrates to give any malefactor above forty stripes; (so man...
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. [Deuteronomy 25:2. The law limited all beatings to forty stripes; but one stripe was omitted lest the law should be accidentally broken throug...
2 Corinthians 11:24 From G5259 Jews G2453 times G3999 received G2983 (G5627) forty G5062 minus G3844 one...
‘Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep, in journeyings ofte...
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 11:24. OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. Not one of these cases is recorded in the Acts. The rule, not to exceed forty, was very strict, and for a merciful reason...
FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE (πεντακις τεσσερακοντα παρα μιαν ελαβον). The Acts and the Epistles are silent about these Jewish floggings (Matthew 27:36). See on Luke 12:47 for omissi...
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...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:24 FORTY LASHES LESS ONE. The Jewish punishment of 39 lashes was given by the synagogue for false teaching, blasphemy, and serious lawbreaking. All of these char...
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...
_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,...
Deuteronomy 25:2; Deuteronomy 25:3; Mark 13:9; Matthew 10:17...
Five times I received from the Jews forty stripes save one — Which was the utmost that the law allowed. With the Romans he sometimes pleaded his privilege as a Roman; but from the Jews he suffered all...
The law in Deuteronomy 25:3 allowed forty stripes to be given to them that were worthy to be beaten, but forbade them to exceed that number: But it being their custom to beat them with. whip that had...