2 CORINTHIANS 11:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would tolerate a fool, so that I too may do a little boasting — Paul *paradoxically* commands the Corinthians to *tolerate* his *mōría*, foolishness, precisely as they tolerate the false apostles' boasting. He will now enter the *fools' contest* and *win decisively*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:16
“Again I say.” For he had even already used much preparatory corrective: 'But nevertheless I am not contented with what I have said, but I say yet again,' “Let no man think me foolish.” For this was what they did — boasted without a reason. — But observe, I pray you, how often, when about to enter upon his own praises, he checks himself. 'For indeed it is the act of folly,' he says, 'to boast: but I do it, not as playing the fool, but because compelled. But if you do not…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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