Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 12:11 - 12:11

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Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 12:11 - 12:11


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I am become foolish (gegona aphrōn). Perfect active indicative of ginomai. In spite of what he said in 2Co 12:6 that he would not be foolish if he gloried in the other Paul. But he feels that he has dropped back to the mood of 2Co 11:1, 2Co 11:16. He has been swept on by the memory of the ecstasy.

For I ought to have been commended by you (egō gar ōpheilon huph' humōn sunistasthai). Explanation of “ye compelled me.” Imperfect active ōpheilon of opheilō, to be under obligation, and the tense here expresses an unfulfilled obligation about the present. But sunistasthai is present passive infinitive, not aorist or perfect passive. He literally means, “I ought now to be commended by you” instead of having to glorify myself. He repeats his boast already made (2Co 11:5.), that he is no whit behind “the super-extra apostles” (the Judaizers), “though I am nothing” (ei kai ouden eimi). Even boasting himself against those false apostles causes a reaction of feeling that he has to express (cf. 1Co 15:9; 1Ti 1:15.).