But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
I will do - I will continue to decline help.
Occasion, х teen (G3588) aformeen (G874)] - 'the handle,' namely, of misrepresenting my motives, which would be afforded to detractors, if I accepted help.
That wherein they glory they may be found even as we. This cannot mean that the false teachers taught gratuitously even as Paul (cf. 2 Corinthians 11:20; 1 Corinthians 9:12). Olshausen makes this explain the "occasion which Paul's adversaries sought-namely, that by his accepting maintenance, in receiving which they 'gloried' as an apostolic prerogative, they might he found on a level with him: in spite of their boast of maintenance, and their sneering at him for not accepting it, they would have been glad to have him on the same level of selfishness in this with themselves. But should it not then be 'that we may be found even as they?' Probably this clause expresses Paul's aim-namely, that "wherein they glory (in respect of their receiving apostolic maintenance) they may be found (to say the least, not superior, but, through your understanding my disinterestedness in declining it) even AS we," having no cause to glory over us. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:18, etc.