2 CORINTHIANS 11:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.”
As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine — Paul *swears an oath* (*nē ton alētheian Christou*), by the truth of Christ, that his *independent financing* will *remain unchanged*. This *vow* is an *act of apostolic authority*, not mere personal preference.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:10
“As the truth of Christ is in me.” 'Do not think that I therefore have spoken, that I may receive, that I may the rather draw you on: for,' says he, as the truth is in me, “No man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.” For that none should think again that he is grieved at this, or that he speaks these things in anger, he even calls the thing a “glorying.” And in his former Epistle too he dressed it out in like terms. For so that he may not wound them…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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