2 CORINTHIANS 11:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?”
Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? — Paul's *empathy* (*sympáschō*, suffer with) extends to *all affliction*. When the weak *fail*, Paul *feels* their *astheneia*, weakness. When brothers *stumble*, he *burns* (*purióō*, inflamed with indignation). *Pastoral love* means *identification* with congregational suffering.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:29
“Who is weak, and I am not weak?” He did not say, 'and I share not in his dejection?' but, 'so am I troubled and disturbed, as though I myself were laboring under that very affection, that very infirmity.' “Who is made to stumble, and I burn not?” See, again, how he places before us the excess of his grief by calling it “burning.” 'I am on fire,' 'I am in a flame,' he says, which is surely greater than anything he has said. For those other things, although violent, yet both…
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