Verse 11
11. I… a fool in glorying The last allusion of Paul, after a back glance, over what he has said, to his glorying.
I have become well, they will say a fool; even though I have gloried only in my sufferings, passive revelations, and disgraces.
Ought… of you For all the folly of my self-assertion, even thus much, I am justified, and the responsibility rests with you. You ought, by your bold, magnanimous assertion of me against my detractors, to have made my self-assertion unnecessary. But for even this un-trueness the apostle would not have reprehended them were it not that their untrueness to him was, in the case, an untrueness to Christ.
For Giving reason why they ought to have asserted him. Am Was, Greek aorist, namely, was in my apostolate at Corinth.
Chiefest apostles The overmuch apostles. Note, 2 Corinthians 11:5; same as the false apostles, 2 Corinthians 11:13.
Be nothing In myself, though something in Christ; as they are nothing in themselves, and something in nothing.
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