Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
2 Corinthians 11:8
2 Corinthians 11:8. Nay, I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister (gratuitously) to you;
2 Corinthians 11:8. Nay, I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister (gratuitously) to you;
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:8. _I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES_] This part of the sentence is explained by the latter, _taking wages to do you service_. The word οψωνιον signifies the _pay_ of money and provisio...
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES - The churches of Macedonia and elsewhere, which had ministered to his needs. Probably he refers especially to the church at Philippi (see Philippians 4:15), which seems to hav...
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...
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...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render se...
ROBBED. Greek. _sulao_. Only here. Compare Acts 19:37. OTHER. Greek. _allos_, as in 2 Corinthians 11:4. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:9. CHURCHES. App-186. WAGES. Greek.
_I robbed other churches_ "An hyperbolical expression" (Meyer). And yet in one sense it was true, for the Corinthians were just as much bound to support the Apostle when at Corinth as any other Church...
ἍΛΛΑΣ ἘΚΚΛΗΣΊΑΣ ἘΣΎΛΗΣΑ. _Other churches I robbed;_ a hyperbolical expression, indicative of strong feeling, but at once preserved from being misleading by the explanation which follows. Here also he...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
_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...
ΆΛΛΟΣ (G243) другой; имеются в виду разные церкви Коринфа, ΈΣΎΛΗΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΛΆΩ (G4813) грабить. Это слово обозначало ограбление храмов либо грабеж солдат (Hughes; Barrett; Furnish), ΛΑ...
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES,— _"I_ may almost, in this sense, be said to have _robbed other churches;_ so freely have I received from them, at least _taking wages_ as it were _of them, for waiting upon yo...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15) 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. I ROBBED - i:e., took from them, in order to spare you the cost of my maintenance while preaching to you, e.g., the Philippian chu...
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...
11:8 ministry (h-8) _ Diakonia_ . see Note, 1 Corinthians 4:1 ....
_(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...
PARAPHRASE. 'Is it a fault in your eyes that I took nothing from you while labouring for your spiritual benefit, but gave you the gospel gratuitously? (8) I took more than their due from others to pro...
OTHER CHURCHES] especially the Philippian Church (Philippians 4:15)....
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...
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES, TAKING WAGES OF THEM. — The word for wages — strictly _rations,_ or wages in kind, rather than in money — is found in Luke 3:14; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 9:7. Its use in the...
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...
ἄλλας ἐκκλησίας ἐσύλησα κ. τ. λ.: _I robbed other Churches, e.g._, Philippi (Philippians 4:15. He expresses himself hyperbolically to bring out his meaning; συλᾷν is a very strong word, see Acts 19:37...
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...
“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...
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 8 Others were deprived of their needs so that Paul might preach to the Corinthians without charge....
(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...
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,...
8._I robbed other churches _He has intentionally, in my opinion, made use of an offensive term, that he might the more forcibly express the unreasonableness of the matter — in respect of his being des...
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...
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES,.... Meaning the churches of Macedonia; not that what he had of them was by force and rapine, or by plundering of them, and spoiling of their substance, and living upon them ag...
I robbed other churches, taking wages _of them_, to do you service. Ver. 8. _I robbed other churches_] _Grandis metaphora, _ Great metaphor, th Piscator, I took maintenance from them (as the apostle...
_Have I committed an offence_ Will any turn this into an objection; _in abasing myself_ Stooping to work at my trade; _that ye might be exalted_ To the dignity of being the children of God; _because I...
TAKING WAGES OF THEM; receiving supplies from others, while laboring for you....
Paul is not inferior to the "great apostles":...
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES, TAKING WAGES OF THEM, TO DO YOU SERVICE....
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...
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...
He interpreteth the term of ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES, by a _taking wages of them; _ which indeed is no robbery, as he had proved, 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1. All the robbery that was in it lay in this, that his m...
I robbed other churches [Paul again shows his emotion by the indignant hyperbole "robbed"], _taking wages of them that I might minister unto you_;...
2 Corinthians 11:8 robbed G4813 (G5656) other G243 churches G1577 taking G2983 (G5631) wages G3800 to G4314
‘I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister to you.' Indeed he had done more. He had accepted money from other churches so as not to have to rely on them. ‘Robbed.' Perhaps th...
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...
I ROBBED (εσυλησα). Old verb to despoil, strip arms from a slain foe, only here in N.T. He allowed other churches to do more than their share.TAKING WAGES (λαβων οψωνιον). For οψωνιον see on 1 Cor...
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...
I WAS PAID BY OTHER CHURCHES. Paul has been accused over the very thing he did for their own good! He did not take money from them to avoid even a hint of suspicion that he acted from worldly motives!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:8 I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES is an example of hyperbole. Paul received financial help from Macedonia to preach the gospel in Corinth....
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:7. OR.—Turning to another topic. OFFENCE.—Lit. “_Sin_.” FREELY.—_I.e. “without charge_.” Cf. Philippians 4:12. 2 Corinthians 11:8
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 11:9; Philippians 4:14...
I robbed [ε σ υ λ η σ α]. Only here in the New Testament, though it appears in the verb iJerosulew to commit sacrilege, Romans 2:22, and in iJerosuloi robbers of churches, Acts 19:37. Originally to st...
I spoiled other churches — I, as it were, took the spoils of them: it is a military term. Taking wages (or pay, another military word) of them — When I came to you at first. And when I was present wit...