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Seeing that many glory ... - The false teachers in Corinth. They boasted of their birth, rank, natural endowments, eloquence, etc.; see 2 Corint...
Comparison between Paul and his Opponents ( cf. 2 Corinthians 11:6 ). Under the pressure of intense feeling he will break through his inclination...
18. Since many glory. The meaning is — Should any one say to me, by way of objection, that what I do is faulty, what then as to others? A...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Seeing that many glory after the flesh - Boast of external and secular things.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Many - including the 'false teachers.' After the flesh - as fleshly men boast;...
(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 t...
After the flesh ] i.e. of their worldly advantages: cp. 2 Corinthians 11:22 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23 .
Seeing that many glory after the flesh. — To glory, or boast, after the flesh, as interpreted by 2 Corinthians 5:16 (where see Note), is to lay...
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 A...
Constrained to Silence Boasters 2 Corinthians 11:10-21 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the...
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 ap...
(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 sp...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh ,.... Or with respect to things external, such as their high birth and parentage, carnal descent, circumcisio...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Ver. 18. Glory after the flesh ] Or in the flesh, Galatians 6:13 , or have confidence...
Seeing that many glory after the flesh In circumcision, Jewish extraction, and other outward privileges and qualifications; I will glory also In...
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 w...
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. A. D. 57. ...
By the flesh is meant, carnal and external things; which though they be the gifts and favours of God, yet do not at all commend a man to God. The a...
Paul Defends His Apostleship And Compares Himself With His Opponents ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ). An exact determination of who the visiting preache...
‘Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.' His opponents are boasting like human beings because of their unspiritual nature, boast...
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...
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...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING . EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (...
Paul's Boast of His Apostolic Calling. Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
1 Corinthians 4:10 ; 1 Peter 1:24 ; 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 ; 2 Corinthians 11:12 ; 2 Corinthians 11:21-23 ; 2 Corinthians 12:11 ; 2 Corinthian...
After the flesh — That is, in external things.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.