For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Gladly - willingly. Irony. It is a mark of the wise to bear with fools. A plea why they should "bear with" (the same Greek, 2 Corinthians 11:1) him in his folly - i:e., boasting: ye are, in sooth, so "wise" yourselves (1 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 4:10); his real view of their wisdom was very different (1 Corinthians 3:1-9); moreover ye "bear with" the folly of others complacently (2 Corinthians 11:20).