If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness. [If my enemies force upon me the moral necessity of boasting, I will at least not boast of my exploits, but of those things which others might regard as matters of shame. Thus the apostle shows how impossible it was for him to really boast after the fashion of a worldly mind.]
Verse 30. _I WILL GLORY - WHICH CONCERN MINE INFIRMITIES._] I will not boast of my _natural_ or _acquired powers_; neither in what _God_ has done by me; but rather in what I have _suffered_ for _him_....
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY - It is unpleasant for me to boast, but circumstances have compelled me. But since I am compelled, I will not boast of my rank, or talents, but of that which is regarded by some...
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...
WHICH CONCERN. of....
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...
_If I must needs glory_ See note on ch. 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 5:12. _I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities_ Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 12:5;...
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;...
ΕἸ ΚΑΥΧΆΣΘΑΙ ΔΕΙ͂. B. Weiss makes this the beginning of the paragraph which ends with 2 Corinthians 12:10. But these four verses (30–33) are closely connected with what precedes, and 2 Corinthians 11:...
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...
ΚΑΥΧΆΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться, славить. _Inf._ как дополнение последующего безличного гл. ΔΕΊ _praes. ind. act._ (G1163) необходимо, с _inf._ указывает на логическ...
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY,— See ch. 2 Corinthians 12:11. By the word u954?αυχασθαι, which is translated sometimes _to glory,_ and sometimes to boast, the Apostle throughout, when he applies it to himself,...
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...
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. GLORY OF ... INFIRMITIES. A striking contrast! Glorying in, not power, riches, eloquence, but what others make matt...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'If, however, I must boast in self-defence, I shall boast about my weakness and helplessness; for I shall thus make it plain what Christ has done by means of such a feeble servant. (31) An...
_(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...
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY... — The words form a transition to the narratives that follow. The question, “Who is weak and I am not weak?” has suggested _the_ thought of the weakness and infirmity of variou...
CHAPTER 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are partly connected with its form, partly with its substance: it will...
HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
εἰ καυχᾶσθαι κ. τ. λ.: _if I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness_ (_cf._ chap. 2 Corinthians 12:5; 2 Corinthians 12:9), such as are the perils and indignities which h...
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 30 If he was forced to boast, at lease he would not tell of his great accomplishments. Rather, he put his enemies to shame by showing the suffering he endured for the cross....
(10) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. (10) He turns that against the adversaries which they objected against him: as if he should say, "They allege my...
(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,...
_A PARADOX_ ‘If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.’ 2 Corinthians 11:30 What a strange saying, what an astonishing paradox, and from such a man! St. Paul...
30._If he must glory. _Here we have the conclusion, drawn from all that has gone before — that Paul is more inclined to boast of those things that are connected with his _infirmity, _that is, those th...
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...
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY,.... The apostle signifies that glorying was not agreeable to him; he was not fond of it, it was a subject he did not delight to dwell upon; what he had done was by force, and th...
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. Ver. 30. _I will glory of the things_] As a conqueror of his spoil, or as an old soldier of his scars. The apostle gl...
_Besides those things that are without_ These external troubles which I have mentioned; _that which cometh upon me daily_ Greek, η επισυστασις μου η καθ ' ημεραν, _that which rusheth upon me daily_, o...
MINE INFIRMITIES; my sufferings for Christ's sake, and my need of his help. The above enumeration shows that in the Acts of the Apostles we have but a brief account of Paul's labors and sufferings for...
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY, I WILL GLORY OF THE THINGS WHICH CONCERN MINE INFIRMITIES....
A further recital of hardships and difficulties:...
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 here calleth the things which he had suffered for the gospel, and the propagation of it, his _infirmities; _ and saith, that he chose those things to GLORY in. He would not glory of the di...
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‘If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.' So if he is to boast he will boast about the things which show he is weak, He does not glory in his splendour like his opp...
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 11:30. IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY, I WILL GLORY OF THE THINGS THAT CONCERN MY WEAKNESS. The reference here is thought by many excellent critics to be to the infirmities spoken of in the follo...
THE THINGS THAT CONCERN MY WEAKNESS (τα της ασθενειας μου). Like the list above....
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...
THAT SHOW. This explains what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:18. The weakness of which he has been accused (2 Corinthians 10:10) is the only proper subject for boasting! In weakness (as the world sees...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:30 God triumphs through human WEAKNESS, as he did through Christ’s crucifixion (1 Corinthians 1:27;...
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...
_Of the things which concern mine infirmities_. I will glory of the afflictions, blows, persecutions, and sufferings that I have borne for Christ. Through them I seem weak, _i.e._, despicable, mean, a...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:31.—Grammar makes certain that the ejaculated benediction belongs to the Father. HE WHO IS.—The emphatic Greek recalls the Greek equivalent for JEHOVAH. Look at the _...
_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,...
2 Corinthians 11:16; 2 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:5;...
The things which concern mine infirmities [τ α τ η ς α σ θ ε ν ε ι α ς μ ο υ]. He will be attested as a true apostle by the sufferings which show his weakness, which make him contemptible in his adver...
I will glory of the things that concern my infirmities — Of what shows my weakness, rather than my strength....
By INFIRMITIES here, we are to understand sufferings, reproaches, and disgraces, afflictions and persecutions, for the sake of the gospel. Where note, That the apostle chose rather to glory in what Ch...