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Verse 2 Corinthians 11:33. _THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET_] Probably
the house was situated on the wall of the city. See the notes on this
history, Acts 9:23.
IN ver. 2 of this chapter 2 Cor
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AND THROUGH A WINDOW - That is, through a little door or aperture in
the wall; perhaps something like an embrasure, that might have been
large enough to allow a man to pass through it. Luke says Acts...
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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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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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THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
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THROUGH. Greek. _dia._ App-104. 2 Corinthians 11:1.
WINDOW. Greek. _thuris._ See Acts 20:9.
BASKET. Greek. _sargane._ Only here. In Acts 9:25 the word is
_spuris._
LET DOWN. Gr
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_in a basket_ The word literally means a PLAITED CORD. Hence a basket
made of cords. The word in Acts 9:25 is not the same.
_was I let down by the wall_ Theodoret well remarks, "He shews the
greatnes...
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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...
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GLORYING ABOUT HIS SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS...
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ΔΙᾺ ΘΥΡΊΔΟΣ. Literally, ‘a little door, small opening,’
dim. of θύρα; elsewhere in the N.T. only Acts 20:9. An aperture in
the wall is still shown as the place. “In the traditions of Damascus
the inci...
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32, 33. It has been proposed by Holsten, Hilgenfeld, Schmiedel,
Baljon, and others to strike out these two verses, with or without all
or the first part of 2 Corinthians 12:1, as a rather clumsy gloss...
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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;...
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_ 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...
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ΘΥΡΊΔΟΣ _gen. от_ ΘΥΡΊΣ (G2376) окно.
Маленькое отверстие в стене, через
которое опустили вниз Св. Павла (Plummer).
ΣΑΡΓΆΝΗ (G4553) _dat. sing._ корзина, плетеный
короб,
ΈΧΑΛΆΣΘΗΝ _aor. ind. pass. о...
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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
_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...
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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...
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11:33 by (b-12) Or 'through,' _ dia_ ....
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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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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...
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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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THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET... — On the mode of escape, see Notes
on Acts 9:24. So the spies escaped from the house of Rahab (Joshua
2:15), and David from the pursuit of Saul (1 Samuel 19:12). The wo...
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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...
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HIS APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND TRIALS....
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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...
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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 33 Here was an embarrassing escape from wicked hands. With the
gates closely guarded, he was forced to leave by a window from a house
along the wall....
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REFLECTIONS
READER! who can behold the warmth and zeal of the Apostle in his godly
jealousy over the Corinthian Church, in their espousals to Christ,
without feeling an anxiety and jealousy over our o...
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(32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of
the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: (33) And
through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and esc...
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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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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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AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN,.... The house in
which he was, like Rahab's, was built upon the wall of the city, and
as she let down the spies by a cord through the window, and as Da...
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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and
escaped his hands.
Ver. 33. _And through a window, &c._] An honest shift, though against
the Roman law of leaping over the walls. _Qui...
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_In Damascus_, &c. As if he had said, I must be permitted to add one
circumstance more to illustrate the dangers to which I was exposed, as
soon as I engaged in the Christian cause, and the remarkable...
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A further recital of hardships and difficulties:...
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AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN BY THE WALL, AND
ESCAPED HIS HANDS.
The first rhetorical questions contain a further explanation of the
fact that Paul was burdened with the details of...
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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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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "2 CORINTHIANS 11:32...
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and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and
escaped his hands. [In the walled cities of the Orient, houses were
often built against the walls so that the windows projected over th...
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2 Corinthians 11:33 but G2532 down G5465 (G5681) in G1722 basket G4553
through G1223 window G2376 in G122
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‘In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of
the Damascenes in order to take me, and through a window was I let
down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.'
He finishes...
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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 11:33. AND THROUGH A WINDOW WAS I LET DOWN IN A BASKET
BY THE WALL or ‘over' it; that is, from an overhanging house, such
as is still to be seen at Damascus (and see Joshua 2:15; 1 Samue...
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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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WHEN I WAS IN DAMASCUS. See note on Acts 9:23. Paul adds this account
as an afterthought. It may be that the false teacher had widely
circulated this account, hoping to embarrass Paul with it. Here he...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:32 Having to flee IN A BASKET
was a striking example of Paul’s “weakness” (v. 2 Corinthians
11:30
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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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_And through a window in a basket was I let down._ This escape of S.
Paul from Damascus happened in the year 39 (Act 9:25), when, as
Josephus says, Aretas, King of Arabia and of the country near
Damas...
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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 Samuel 19:12; Joshua 2:18...
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Through a window [δ ι α θ υ ρ ι δ ο ς]. Only here and Acts
20:9.
Diminutive of qura a door. The same expression is used in Sept.,
Joshua 2:15, of the escape of the spies from Jericho, and 1 Samuel
19:...
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Through a window — Of an house which stood on the city wall....