Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 12:6
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6. For —Not but that I might glory as to "myself" ( :- ); "FOR if I should desire to glory, I shall not be a fool"; for I have things to glory, or boast of which are good matter for glorying of (not mere external fleshly advantages which when he gloried in [ :- ] he termed such glorying "folly," 2 Corinthians 11:1 ; 2 Corinthians 11:16 ; 2 Corinthians 11:17 ). think of me — Greek, "form his estimate respecting me." heareth of me — Greek, "heareth aught from me." Whatever haply he heareth from me in person. If on account of healing a cripple ( Acts 14:12 ; Acts 14:13 ), and shaking off a viper ( Acts 28:5 ), the people thought him a god, what would they have not done, if he had disclosed those revelations? [ESTIUS]. I wish each of you to estimate me by "what he sees" my present acts and "hears" my teaching to be; not by my boasting of past revelations. They who allow themselves to be thought of more highly than is lawful, defraud themselves of the honor which is at God's disposal [BENGEL] ( John 5:44 ; John 12:43 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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