Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 11:25
Verse 25 Beating with rods was Roman scourging (Acts 16:22-24). Stoning was usually Jewish punishment for blasphemy (Acts 14:19).
Verse 25 Beating with rods was Roman scourging (Acts 16:22-24). Stoning was usually Jewish punishment for blasphemy (Acts 14:19).
Verse 25. _THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS_] This was under the Roman government, as their _lictors_ beat criminals in this way. We hear of the apostle's being treated thus _once_, namely at Philippi, A...
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS - In the Acts of the Apostles there is mention made of his being beaten in this manner but once before the time when this Epistle was written. That occurred at Philippi;...
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...
BEATEN, he. Greek. _rhabdizo. See_ Acts 16:22. STONED. At Lystra, Acts 14:19. SUFFERED SHIPWRECK. was shipwrecked. Greek. _nauageo._ Only here and 1 Timothy 1:19. A NIGHT AND. DAY. Greek...
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...
_Thrice was I beaten with rods_ See Acts 16:22-23, and note on 2 Corinthians 11:23. _This_punishment is also said frequently to have caused the death of the victim. It was inflicted by the Romans on t...
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...
ΤΡῚΣ ἘΡΑΒΔΊΣΘΗΝ. This beating with rods is a Roman punishment. We know of only one of these three cases, the one at Philippi (Acts 16:23; comp. 1 Thessalonians 2:2). Possibly the protest that he and S...
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...
ΤΡΊΣ (G5151) три раза, ΈΡΑΒΔΊΣΘΗΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΡΑΒΔΊΖΩ (G4463) бить палками. Это римский метод избиения, часто применяемый для принуждения стражами порядка (_см._ Acts 16:22; TDNT; RAC, 9:469...
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...
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS, &C.— See Matthew 27:26. Mark 15:15.John 19:1. The _wreck_ at Malta happened long after this time; so that it must have been the _fourth_ shipwreck that St. Paul suffered...
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...
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...
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; The beating by Roman magistrates at Philippi () is the only one recorded in...
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...
WITH RODS] A Roman scourging, as at Philippi (Acts 16:22). STONED] at Lystra (Acts 14:19). SHIPWRECK] The only instance recorded in Acts was later than this. IN THE DEEP] floating on wreckage or on a...
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...
ONCE WAS I STONED. — Here the Acts (Acts 14:19) give us the solitary instance at Lystra. The accuracy of the Apostle in referring to this form of suffering, where we can compare it with the history, m...
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...
τρὶς ἐραβδίσθην κ. τ. λ.: _thrice was I beaten with rods, i.e._, “virgis caesus sum,” a _Roman_, as distinct from the _Fewish_, method of scourging distinct too from flagellation with _thongs_ (Matthe...
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...
(q) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; (q) By the Roman magistrates....
Thrice I suffered shipwreck. This was before the shipwreck in his voyage to Rome, by which we make take notice, that St. Luke, in the Acts, omits a great many things relating to St. Paul; as also when...
(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,...
25._Thrice was I beaten with rods _Hence it appears, that the Apostle suffered many things, of which no mention is made by Luke; for he makes mention of only _one _stoning, (861) one scourging, and _o...
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...
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS,.... Or "wands", by the Romans; for this was a Roman punishment, distinct from scourging with cords used by the Jews. There is mention made but of one time only that he w...
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; Ver. 25. _Thrice was I beaten, &c._] By the Roman magistrates, as also the ma...
_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...
A NIGHT AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEEP; floating, it is supposed, on something after one of his shipwrecks....
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS, ONCE WAS I STONED, THRICE I SUFFERED SHIPWRECK, A NIGHT AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEEP;...
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...
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS; this was by the pagans, for the Jews whipped malefactor with a whip which had three cords. We read of one of these times. ACTS 16:23; and of a second, ACTS 22:24, when t...
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 [The Romans punished by using the vine rods of the soldiers or the fasces of th...
2 Corinthians 11:25 times G5151 rods G4463 (G5681) once G530 stoned G3034 (G5681) times G5151 shipwrecked...
‘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 11:25. THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS. This was the Roman mode of scourging, and this also sometimes issued in death. Only one of these three cases is recorded in Acts (Acts 21:22-23). In...
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS (τρις ερραβδισθην). Roman (Gentile) punishment. It was forbidden to Roman citizens by the _Lex Porcia_, but Paul endured it in Philippi (Acts 16:23; Acts 16:37), the on...
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...
WHIPPED BY THE ROMANS. Compare Acts 16:22-23. STONED. Acts 14:19. THREE SHIPWRECKS. A fourth is described in _Acts 27_ (at a later date). TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Holding on to some of the wreckage....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:25 BEATEN WITH RODS. This was the Gentile punishment for disturbing the peace (Acts 16:22,...
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...
_I have been in the deep._ The Greek word for _the deep_ may refer to a well or a prison, as well as the sea. Hence (1.) some think, says Theophylact, that that well is meant in which Paul is said to...
_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,...
Acts 14:19; Acts 14:5; Acts 16:22; Acts 16:23; Acts 16:33;...
Beaten with rods. Roman scourgings. Stoned. At Lystra, Acts 14:19. Thrice I suffered shipwreck. The shipwreck at Malta, being later, is, of course, not referred to; so that no one of these three is...
Thrice I have been shipwrecked — Before his voyage to Rome. In the deep — Probably floating on some part of the vessel....
Behold what. catalogue the apostle here gives of his sufferings and services: He was scourged by the Jews with whips, beaten by the Gentiles with rods, stoned by the rabble, thrice suffered shipwreck,...