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Verse 16. _LET NO MAN THINK ME A FOOL_] See the note on 2 Corinthians
11:1. As the apostle was now going to enter into a particular detail
of his qualifications, natural, acquired, and spiritual; and...
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I SAY AGAIN - I repeat it. He refers to what he had said in 2
Corinthians 11:1. The sense is, “I have said much respecting myself
which may seem to be foolish. I admit that to boast in this manner of...
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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...
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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...
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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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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...
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NO. Greek. _me_. App-105.
MAN. one. Greek. tin. App-123.
FOOL, Greek. _aphron_. See Luke 11:40. The fifth, sixth, and seventh
one. in this verse and 2 Corinthians 11:19. Compare _aphrosune,_...
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_I say again_ Cf. ch. 2Co 10:8, 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians
11:6. "Three times he has attempted to begin his boast. First he is
interrupted by the recollection of the hollowness of the boast of...
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ΚΑΥΧΉΣΩΜΑΙ (אBFGM) rather than καυχήσομαι (DKLP).
16. ΠΆΛΙΝ ΛΈΓΩ, ΜΉ ΤΙΣ ΜΕ ΔΌΞΗΙ ἌΦΡΟΝΑ
ΕἾΝΑΙ. As in 2 Corinthians 11:1, he admits that all this
glorying may be stigmatized as folly. But it is not fo...
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16–21. Like 2 Corinthians 11:1-6, these six verses are ‘again’
introductory to the glorying which follows, apologizing for the folly
of it....
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GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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_ BOASTING DONE WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16-21:_ Paul
did not want these brethren to think he was a fool. But even if they
did accept him as a fool he needed to boast a little. Paul u...
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I SAY AGAIN LET NO MAN THINK, &C.— St Paul goes on in his
justification, reflecting upon the carriage of the false apostle
towards the Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 11:16. He compares himself with
the fa...
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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...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Scripture_
2 Corinthians 11:16-21 a. I say again, Let no man think me foolish;
but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a
little. 17 That which I speak, I...
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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.
I SAY AGAIN - again, taken up from 2 Corinthians 11:1, the apology
for his boasti...
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11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle
makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as
severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
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A FOOL] The repetition of this word so frequently suggests that he had
been jeered at as a fool among the members of the Church. This whole
passage (2 Corinthians 11:16) is full of irony....
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_(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...
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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...
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I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME A FOOL... — The stinging word is
repeated from 2 Corinthians 11:1. He protests against the justice of
the taunt. He pleads that, even if they think him “insane” (this,...
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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...
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πάλιν λέγω κ. τ. λ.: _I say again_ (the first time having
been in 2 Corinthians 11:1), _let no man think me foolish, i.e._,
senseless with the ἀφροσύνη of self-praise; _but even if ye
do_ (for εἰ δὲ μ...
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HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
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CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS
2 Corinthians 11:10
In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the
Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts
with himself...
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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...
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VERSE 16 Glorying has been the main subject, however, Paul has strayed
from it twice since verse 1. Driven by his opponents to boast, Paul
asks the readers' indulgence....
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(7) 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.
(7) He goes forward boldly, and using a vehement irony or type of
taunting, desi...
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Otherwise take me as one foolish. St. Paul divers times excuses
himself for mentioning thins in his own commendation: he owns that
this in itself, and unless it were necessary, might be blamed as
foll...
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(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...
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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,...
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16._I say again _The Apostle has a twofold design. He has it partly in
view to expose the disgusting vanity of the false Apostles, inasmuch
as they were such extravagant trumpeters of their own praise...
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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...
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I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME A FOOL,.... For praising himself, or
speaking in his own commendation; which he was obliged to do, in
vindication of his own character, against the false apostles, for...
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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.
Ver. 16. _Let no man think me_] There was never man, nor action, but
was subject to...
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_I say again_ He premises a new apology to this new commendation of
himself; _let no man think me a fool_ In boasting thus of myself; let
no one think I take any pleasure in doing it, or that I do it...
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THINK ME A FOOL; in seeming thus to boast of what I am and what I have
done; for present circumstances render this needful.
IF OTHERWISE; if it does appear foolish, let him bear with me in
mentioning...
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PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS APOSTOLIC CALLING.
Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:...
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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....
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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...
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RECEIVE:
Or, suffer...
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16-21 It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves,
in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must
direct in what it is needful to do things which we may do...
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I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME A FOOL: I know that he, who is much
in magnifying and praising himself, ordinarily is judged to be a fool;
but though I do so, let me not lie under that imputation. Th...
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[In this section the apostle draws a comparison between himself and
the false apostles, showing how he excelled them in labors,
revelations, signs, etc.] _I say again_ [having twice swerved from the
d...
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HE ‘FOOLISHLY' COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS
11:16 TO 2 CORINTHIANS 12:13).
‘I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if you do, yet as
foolish receive me, that I also may g...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 11:16-18 . I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME FOOLISH; BUT
IF YE DO SO, YET AS FOOLISH RECEIVE ME, THAT I ALSO MAY GLORY A
LITTLE, etc. He feels the conflict between what may be called
leg...
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LET NO MAN THINK ME FOOLISH
(μη τις με δοξη αφρονα εινα). Usual construction
in a negative prohibition with μη and the aorist subjunctive
δοξη (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 933).BUT IF YE DO
(ε δε μη...
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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...
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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...
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I REPEAT. "Bear with me as I boast a little bit, and see if I have as
much to boast about as those false apostles!...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16 In his arrogance the FOOL
boasts in himself, not in the Lord (see 2 Corinthians 10:17). He is
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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...
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_If otherwise, yet as a fool receive me_. If I can obtain from you
nothing else, then receive me as a fool, only that I may have license
to glory somewhat. As Cato says: "Neither praise nor blame thys...
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_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
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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 ...
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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,...
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2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2
Corinthians 12:11;...
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I say again — He premises a new apology to this new commendation of
himself. Let no man think me a fool — Let none think I do this
without the utmost necessity. But if any do think me foolish herein,...
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Here our apostle returns again to his own just and necessary
vindication of himself; he acknowledges it unbecoming and unseemly in
itself to boast much: and that boasting is the usual mark of. fool;
b...