2 Corinthians 11:32

2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 9:24; Acts 9:25

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In Damascus - This circumstance is mentioned as an additional trial. It is evidently mentioned as an instance of peril which had escaped his reco...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Comparison between Paul and his Opponents ( cf. 2 Corinthians 11:6 ). Under the pressure of intense feeling he will break through his inclination...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

governor . Greek. ethnarches. Only here. It means. prefect. Aretas . The father-in-law of Herod Antipas. App-109, kept... with. garrison . gua...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: In Damascus the governor un...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: Governor - Greek, '...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 Chris...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Damascus ] This event in his career happened either immediately after his conversion, or after his return from his subsequent sojourn in Arabia: cp....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king... — The question meets us at the outset whether the fact that follows is brought in as being the fi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30-33 ; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are par...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 win...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king ,.... Aretas or Al-Hareth was a king of Arabia, of the family of the Gassanii; among whom were many o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: Ver. 32. In Damascus ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Apostle Recounts His Sufferings. A. D. 57. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 32,33. Luke hath shortly given us the history of this danger, Acts 9:23-25 . Soon after Paul was converted from the Jewish to the Christian r...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Paul Defends His Apostleship And Compares Himself With His Opponents ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ). An exact determination of who the visiting preache...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 bask...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 11:31 .—Grammar makes certain that the ejaculated benediction belongs to the Father. He who is .—The emphatic Greek...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING . EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A further recital of hardships and difficulties:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In Damascus, the governor under Aretas, the king, kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me;
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The governor under Aretas — King of Arabia and Syria of which Damascus was a chief city, willing to oblige the Jews, kept the city — Setting guards...

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 11:32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Corinthians 11:32