13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. …
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)That these Christians might be the more ashamed of their defection from the truth of the gospel which Paul had preached to them, he here reminds them of the great affection they formerly had for him and his ministry, and puts them upon considering how very unsuitable their present behaviour was to what they then professed. And here we may observe, I. How affectionately he addresses himself to them…
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