13For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. …
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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 I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-15)Here observe, I. The apostle makes an apology for seeming to commend himself and his fellow-labourers (2 Cor. 5:13), and tells them, 1. It was not to commend themselves, nor for their own sakes, that he had spoken of their fidelity and diligence in the 2 Cor. 5:1-11; nor was he willing to suspect their good opinion of him. But, 2. The true reason was this, to put an argument in their mouths wherew…
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