2 CORINTHIANS 11:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.”
I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness — I am speaking as a fool — Paul *directly acknowledges* his *mōría*, foolishness. He has been compelled to boast *like a fool* because his opponents boast and the Corinthians *tolerate* (*anéchmai*) them. Paul will now *play the fool* with devastating irony, turning every marker of *worldly status* into evidence of *apostolic legitimacy*. The fools' speech is Paul's *last resort*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:1
Being about to enter upon his own praises he uses much previous correction. And he does this not once or twice, although the necessity of the subject, and what he had often said, were sufficient excuse for him. For he that remembers sins which God remembered not, and who therefore says that he was unworthy of the very name of the Apostles, even by the most insensate is seen clearly not to be saying what he is now going to say, for the sake of glory. For if one must say…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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