2 Corinthians 12:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. ”

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But be it so - This is evidently a charge of his enemies; or at least a charge which it might be supposed they would make. Whether they ever in fact made it, or whether the apostle merely anticip...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. (6) He sets aside another most grievous slander, that is, that he did subtly and by others make his gain...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Retrospect of the Boasting. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began ( 2 Corinthians 11:1 ; 2...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

burden . Greek. katatareo. Only here. being . Greek. huparcho. It means being essentially, from the beginning. See Luke 9:48 . crafty. Greek. panourgos: Only here. Compare Luke 20:23 ....
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. But be it so. These words intimate, that Paul had been blamed by malevolent persons, as though he had in a clandestine way procured, through means of hired persons, what he had refused t...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. But be it so, I did not burden you - That is: You grant that I did not burden you, that I took nothing from yo...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you, &c.— But be it so that I did not burden you, yet [perhaps it will be suggested] that, being a crafty deceiver, I circumvented you with guile.
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. I did not burden you. The "I" (Greek) is emphatic. A possible insinuation of the Corinthians is antici...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

His Privileges and Trials The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily in...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you. — The pronoun is again emphatic. The word for “burden” is not the same as in 2 Corinthians 12:13-14 , but puts the fact less figuratively. The abruptness of the...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corint...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“I Seek not Yours, but You” 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he di...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glor...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you ,.... These words are not spoken by the apostle in his own person of himself, but in the person of his adversaries, and contain a concession and an objection of th...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Ver. 16. Being crafty I caught ] A blessed craft, a high point of heavenly wisdom, Daniel 12:3 . It is wr...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be it so , &c. But some may object; though I did not burden you Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet being crafty, I caught you with guile I did secretly by my messengers what...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up"...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Expostulations. A. D. 57. 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: fo...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I hear what some say: It is true, that when I was myself with you, I laid no burden upon you, did not put upon you any collection for me; but, like a crafty man, I set others to take money of you for...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Assures Them of His Care For Them ( 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 ). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he does he will again not be a burden on them. (This s...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES ( No break, except that of a new paragraph .) 2 Corinthians 12:1 .—Note reading; probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “ expedient ” ( 1 Corinthians 6:12 ;...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 12:1 . It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any research...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 ). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" ( 2 Corinthians 12:7-47 ). One more apology for glorying ( 2 Corinthians 12:11 , 2...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

What Paul Expects of the Corinthians. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:5 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Corinthians 10:2 ; 2 Corinthians 10:3 ; 2 Corinthians 11:10 ; 2 Corinthians 11:9 ; 2 Corinthians 12:13 ; 2 C...
2 Corinthians 12:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But some may object, though I did not burden you, though I did not take anything of you myself, yet being crafty I caught you with guile — I did secretly by my messengers what I would not do openly...

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 12:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 12:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 12:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes