“ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? ”
Who is weak ... - I sympathize with all. I feel where others feel, and their sorrows excite deep sympathetic emotions in my bosom. Like a tender and compassionate friend I am affected when I see...
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 c...
offended . Greek. skandalizo. See 1 Corinthians 8:13 . burn . Greek. puroomai . See 1 Corinthians 7:9 . Here it means, with zeal or indignation.
29. Who is weak. How many there are that allow all offenses to pass by unheeded — who either despise the infirmities of brethren, or trample them under foot! This, however, arises from their...
DISCOURSE: 2041 ST. PAUL’S ZEAL ILLUSTRATED AND IMPROVED 2 Corinthians 11:23-29 . Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure,...
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? Who is weak - What Church is there under persecution, with which I do not immediately sympathize? or who, from his weakness in the fai...
Who is offended,— "So as to be led into sin by the rashness or uncharitableness of others; and I am not fired — with grief and indignation, to see such dishonour brought upon religion, and with z...
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? I am not weak - in condescending sympathy with the weak ( 1 Corinthians 9:22 ). 'Care generates sympathy, which causes the min...
(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 supp...
Who is weak and I am not weak...? — The words obviously spring from a recollection of all that was involved in that “rush” of which he had just spoken. Did any come to him with his tale of body-sic...
Chapter 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7-29 (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...
Pre-eminent in Labor and Suffering 2 Corinthians 11:22-33 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 w...
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...
(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 foolishl...
Who is weak, and I am not weak ?.... What church is so? or what particular believer is so? for he had not only the care of all the churches, but of all believers upon him; whoever was weak in the fa...
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? Ver. 29. Who is weak ] By passion. And I am not weak ] By compassion. And I burn not ] πυρουμαι, i.e. am exceedingly gri...
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 ,...
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...
The Apostle Recounts His Sufferings. A. D. 57. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Isra...
OLBGrk; Who, may be either, what church? Or, what particular Christian in any church? Is weak, asyenei, through outward afflictions, or in respect of inward spiritual troubles, and I am not wea...
Paul Defends His Apostleship And Compares Himself With His Opponents ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Pa...
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 11:17 . Af...
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...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING . EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-47 ). He is not afraid of compa...
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?
1 Corinthians 11:22 ; 1 Corinthians 12:26 ; 1 Corinthians 15:12 ; 1 Corinthians 15:36 ; 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 ; 1 Corinthians 6:15-18 ; 1 Corinthians 6:5-7 ; 1 Corinthians 8:13 ; 1 Corinthians...
Who — So he had not only the care of the churches, but of every person therein. Is weak, and I am not weak — By sympathy, as well as by condescension. Who is offended — Hindered in, or turned out o...