2 Corinthians 10:8 - Exposition

Should boast. In this section St. Paul is thoroughly haunted by this word. The fact that a word could thus possess and dominate over his style and imagination shows how deeply he was moved. The Corinthian Church, with its inflated factions and their fuglemen, recked with beasting, and St. Paul is driven, with utter distaste, to adopt in self-defence language which, to the uncandid and indiscriminating, might seem to wear the same aspect. The word, which is unfrequent in other Epistles, occurs eighteen times in these chapters alone. Other haunting words are "tolerate," "bear with" ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 :l, 4, 19, 20), and "senseless," "fool" ( 2 Corinthians 11:16 , 2 Corinthians 11:19 ; 2 Corinthians 12:6 , 2 Corinthians 12:11 ); see note on 2 Corinthians 1:3 . Somewhat more ; something more abundantly . For edification, and not for your destruction; for building you up, not pulling you down . The word kathairesin is from the same root as the verb in 2 Corinthians 1:5 . I should not be ashamed; rather, I shall not be ashamed . No shame shall ever accrue to me from my "boast" being proved false.