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2 Corinthians 11:27
There has been. Here he mentions hardships. This is a general picture, and he does not give specific details.
There has been. Here he mentions hardships. This is a general picture, and he does not give specific details.
Verse 27. _IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS_] Tribulations of this kind were his constant companions. Lord Lyttleton and others have made useful reflections on this verse: "How hard was it for a man of a...
IN WEARINESS - Resulting from traveling, exposure, labor, and want. The word κόπος kopos (from κόπτω koptō, “to beat, to cut”) means, properly, “wailing and grief,” accompanied with beating the bre...
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)...
WEARINESS. Same as "labours", 2 Corinthians 11:23. PAINFULNESS. Greek. _mochthos._ Only here, 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8. WATEHINGS. Greek. agrupn
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...
_in weariness and painfulness] In laboure and travayle_(Tyndale), more literally. So Cranmer also. Our translators followed the Geneva version. Cf. 2 Thessalonians 3:8, where the words in the Greek ar...
GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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;...
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...
ΚΌΠΩΙ (אBDFG, d g) rather than ἐν κόπῳ (KLMP, Vulg.). 27. Having mentioned thirteen cases in which he might have lost his life, and eight kinds of dangers which one who travelled as he did must incur...
_ 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...
ΚΌΠΟΣ (G2873) работа (_см._ 2 Corinthians 11:23). ΜΌΧΘΩ (G3449) _dat. sing._ труд, работа. Это слово обозначат борьбу и тяготы (Plummer). ΑΓΡΥΠΝΊΑ (G70) бодрствование, бессонница (Martin). Очевидно,...
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...
IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS,— The latter of the words here used, Μοχθος, is more expressive than the former, Κοπος: it signifies not only strenuous labour, but such as proceeds to a degree of great f...
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...
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. FASTINGS - voluntary, to kindle devotions (Acts 13:2; Acts 14:23;...
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...
11:27 toil, (d-4) See same words in 1 Thessalonians 2:9 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:8 ....
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...
_(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...
IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULLNESS... — The same combination meets us in 2 Thessalonians 3:8, where the English version has “labour and travail,” as Tyndale and Cranmer have in this passage. “Weariness and...
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...
κόπῳ καὶ μόχ. κ. τ. λ.: _in labour and travail, in watchings often_ (see on 2 Corinthians 6:5), _in hunger and thirst_ (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 4:12), _in fastings often, i.e.,_ p
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 27 He worked till work was painful and lost sleep to help others....
In weariness and (r) painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (r) Painfulness is a troublesome sickness, as when a man who is weary and wants r...
(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,...
By fastings I understand those that are voluntary, as he has spoken previously of _hunger _and _want. _Such were the tokens by which he showed himself, and on good grounds, to be an eminent servant of...
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...
IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS,.... Through long journeys and frequent preaching; or "in labour and trouble"; or in troublesome labour, for all labour is not so; as hunting, hawking, c. though laborious...
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Ver. 27. _In weariness and painfulness_] Here is dainty rhetoric. Cicero calleth Aris...
_In journeyings_ For the sake of preaching the gospel; _often_ In which I have been exposed to a variety of dangers, from _waters, robbers, my own countrymen_, and _the heathen. In perils in the city_...
IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS, IN WATCHINGS OFTEN, IN HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS;...
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...
The apostle reckons up several afflictive evils, ordinarily incident to such as travel in foreign countries. Of this nature were the WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS, the HUNGER AND THIRST, the _cold and nak...
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. [The apostle here tells how he labored until labor became a pain; how he sacrificed his sleep...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth be on your guard against every evil word, and every evil desire, and purify your heart from all the vanities of this world. If you guard against these things, your...
2 Corinthians 11:27 in G1722 weariness G2873 and G2532 toil G3449 in G1722 sleeplessness G70 often G4178 in...
‘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 11:27. IN LABOUR AND TRAVAIL, IN WATCHINGS OFTEN, IN HUNGER AND THIRST (see 1 Corinthians 4:11 ; Philippians 4:12), IN FASTINGS OFTEN not voluntary fastings, which he would
IN LABOUR AND TRAVAIL (κοπω κα μοχθω). Both old words for severe work, combined here as in 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8, "by toil and moil" (Plummer). The rest of the list is like the it...
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...
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,...
1 Corinthians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:9;...
Watchings. See on ch. 2 Corinthians 6:5....
In cold and nakedness — Having no place where to lay my head; no convenient raiment to cover me; yet appearing before noble — men, governors, kings; and not being ashamed....