For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
For - Not but that I might glory as to "myself" (2 Corinthians 12:5); 'FOR if I should desire to glory, I shall not be a fool, for I have good materials for glorying (not mere fleshly advantages, which his adversaries boasted of, and which, when he gloried in (2 Corinthians 11:1-33), he termed it "folly:" 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:16-17).
Think of me, х logiseetai (G3049)] - 'form his estimate respecting me.'
Heareth of me - Greek, 'heareth [B G 'Aleph (') g, Vulgate, omit ti (G5100), which Delta, Received Text, have] from me'-namely, in person. If on his healing a cripple (Acts 14:12-13) and shaking off a viper (Acts
28), the people thought him a god, what would they have not done if he had disclosed those revelations? Let each estimate me by 'what he sees' my present acts and 'hears' my teaching to be; not by my past revelations. They who allow themselves to be thought of too highly defraud themselves of the honour at God's disposal (John 5:44; John 12:43).