2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.”
I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing — Paul's *self-assessment* is *paradoxical*: he is *egó eimi oudén*, nothing. Yet *simultaneously*, he is *not inferior* to the false apostles. *Self-deprecation* and *apostolic authority* coexist. His *nothingness* is his *strength*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 12:11
Having fully completed what he had to say about his own praises, he did not stay at this; but again excuses himself and asks pardon for what he said, declaring that his doing so was of necessity and not of choice. Still nevertheless, although there was necessity, he calls himself “a fool.” And when he began indeed, he said, “As foolish receive me,” and “as in foolishness;” but now, leaving out the 'as,' he calls himself “foolish.” For after he had established the point he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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