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Verse 2 Corinthians 11:5. _I WAS NOT - BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST
APOSTLES._] That is: The most eminent of the apostles have not
preached Christ, ministered the spirit, explained and enforced the
doctri...
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FOR I SUPPOSE ... - I think that I gave as good evidence that I was
commissioned by God as the most eminent of the apostles. In the
miracles which I performed; in the abundance of my labors, and in my...
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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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A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like
foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that
they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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Would that you would bear with me in a little foolishness--but I know
that you do bear with me. I am jealous for you with the jealousy of
God, for I betrothed you to one husband, I wished to present a...
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SUPPOSE. reckon.
WAS... BEHIND. Greek. _hustero,_ See. Cor. 2 Corinthians 1:7.
NOT. WHIT. in nothing. Greek. _medeis._ Whit is the O. E, wiht
(wight),. person or thing.
VERY CHIEFEST. Greek. _huper...
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_For I suppose_ The connection of thought seems to be as above. If
they had been preaching another Gospel, you might have borne with
them, but when preaching the same Gospel they can arrogate no
super...
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1–6. These verses are introductory, apologizing for the folly of
glorying, to which a godly zeal on their behalf impels him. At the
beginning, middle, and end of this section he calls attention to the...
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ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ ΓᾺΡ ΜΗΔῈΝ ὙΣΤΕΡΗΚΈΝΑΙ
ΤΩ͂Ν ὙΠΕΡΛΊΑΝ�. _For I_ COUNT (2 Corinthians 10:7; 2
Corinthians 10:11) _that I am not a whit behind_ THOSE PREEMINENT
_apostles_. The rare compound ὑπερλίαν (here and...
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5, 6. These verses lead up to the περιαυτολογία and
καύχησις which is coming. The γάρ connects them with what
precedes: ‘Of course this is not acting καλῶς, _for_ &c.’...
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_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There
was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact
he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 1
Unarticulative (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with
me! 2I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to...
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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
FOR - my elaim is superior to that of the false teachers. "For," etc.
So 'Aleph (') Delta G f g, Vulgate. But B reads 'But.'
I S...
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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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THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES] RM 'those preëminent apostles'; i.e. of
course not the members of the apostolic band like St. Peter and St.
John, but the false teachers to whom he is constantly referring....
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PARAPHRASE. 'And my fear is not without reason, for you are certainly
very favourably inclined towards those who bring quite a different
gospel from that which I preached. (5) But if you tolerate them...
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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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FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES. —
The verb with which the sentence opens is the same as the “I
think,” “I reckon,” which characterises these Chapter s, and
which, bei...
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CHAPTER 24
GODLY JEALOUSY.
2 Corinthians 11:1 (R.V)
ALL through the tenth chapter there is a conflict in the Apostle's
mind. He is repeatedly, as it were, on the verge of doing something,
from which...
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λογίζομαι γὰρ κ. τ. λ.: _for I reckon that I am not a
whit behind these superfine Apostles_; you receive _them_ gladly; why
not _me?_ He then proceeds to refute the two reasons which were
assigned for...
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HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A
TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT
CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
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“A GODLY JEALOUSY”
2 Corinthians 11:1
As the Bridegroom's friend, Paul was eager to bring the Corinthian
church to the Bridegroom of souls. But false teachers disturbed the
purity and simplicity of t...
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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 5 Apparently some were claiming to be "super" apostles in
Corinth. Paul was equal to all of them....
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_For I suppose. Many understand this as spoken ironically, and
alluding to the false apostles, who called themselves great. But it
ought rather to be understood in a literal sense, that God had
perfor...
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(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
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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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5._For I reckon that I am. _He now convicts them of ingratitude, by
removing the only thing that could serve as an excuse for them, for he
shows that he is on a level, even with the chief of the Apost...
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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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FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND,.... This is very modestly
expressed by the apostle; for he does not assert, and in a haughty and
confident way affirm, but only supposes, or thinks that this mig...
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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Ver. 5. _The very chiefest apostles_] Either he meaneth those pillars,
Peter, James, John, &c., Galatians 2:6; or the false apostles,...
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_For if he that cometh_ After me, with such extraordinary pretences;
_preach another Jesus_ Can point out to you another Saviour; _whom we
have not preached_ Who shall better or equally deserve your a...
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Paul is not inferior to the "great apostles":...
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FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES....
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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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5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and
consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be
lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
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The apostle, doubtless, meaneth those that were the true apostles of
our Lord. those who were immediately sent out by him to preach the
gospel, behind whom the apostle was not, either in respect of
mi...
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For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
[I can not think that you receive these rival teachers and professed
apostles as so much superior to me, for I am not behind these...
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2 Corinthians 11:5 For G1063 consider G3049 (G5736) am G5302 all G3367
inferior G5302 (G5760) most G5228
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‘For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very highest ranking
apostles.'
In view of this he feels it necessary as their ‘father' to establish
his position and authority. He wants them to know tha...
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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 11:5. FOR I RECKON THAT I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY
CHIEFEST APOSTLES or (according to others, and the margin of the
Revised Version) ‘those pre-eminent apostles.' In this last case,...
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THAT I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES
(μηδεν υστερηκενα των υπερλιαν
αποστολων). Perfect active infinitive of υστερεω, old
verb to fall short with the ablative case. The rare compou...
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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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THE LEAST BIT INFERIOR! Paul has proved himself by his loyalty to
Christ-on-the-cross! He has the Holy Spirit, but the false apostles do
not! It is almost certain that the false apostles (and the
_cir...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5 SUPER-APOSTLES. This is
probably a sarcastic description of the false apostles troubling the
Corinthian church (see vv....
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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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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 11:1.—Small change of rendering, “_a bit of
foolishness_,” because of small variation of reading. “For, on my
own principle (2 Corinthians 10:18), _it is_ foolishness.”...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:12;
Galatians 2:6...
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The very chiefest apostles [τ ω ν υ π ε ρ λ ι α ν α π ο
σ τ ο λ ω ν]. Lit., those who are preeminently apostles. Not
referring to the genuine apostles, but ironically to the false
teachers, the false...
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Was Paul the greatest or the least of apostles?
PROBLEM: Here Paul claimed, “I am not at all inferior to the most
eminent apostles” (2 Corinthians 11:5). And elsewhere he would have
us believe that he...
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Observe here, 1. The great modesty of the apostle in this expression;
I SUPPOSE. WAS NOT. WIT BEHIND THE CHIEFEST APOSTLES. He might have
said he was equal with them, and in some sense superior to the...