2 CORINTHIANS 11:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him — Paul employs *bridal* imagery (*parthenía*, virginity) to establish his *paternal* and *spiritual* relationship to the Corinthians. His *zēlos*, zealous jealousy (*theou*, of God), is *peri hymōn*, for/about them, protecting them from *seduction*. The Corinthians are *betrothed* to *Christ*, not to false apostles.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:2
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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