2 CORINTHIANS 11:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.”
And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to boast that they work on the same terms as we do — Paul's *stratagem*: by refusing support, he *aposteréō*, deprives, the false apostles of the *préteia*, pretext, to claim *equality* with him. Their *greed* (*pleoneksía*) for *material support* reveals their *mercenary* nature.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:12
“That I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.” For since this they sought earnestly, to find some handle against him, it is necessary to remove this also. For this is the one point on which they pique themselves. Therefore that they might not have any advantage whatever, it was necessary to set this right; for in other things they were inferior. For, as I have said, nothing does so edify worldly people…
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