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2Co 11:23. Διάκονοι, ministers) outwardly.[80]-παραφρονῶν λαλῶ, I speak as a fool) Paul wrote these things, while he constantly laboured to deny himself.-ὑπὲρ) above, [I am] more than they. The more a man suffers, the more he ministers.-περισσοτέρως, more abundantly) The false apostles had also experienced labours and imprisonments, but in a less degree, the other hardships were peculiar to Paul.
[80] And yet there was no need of this distinction, if the Critical Note on this passage be compared: “It is a question; for he affirms, that they were not the ministers of Christ,” 2Co 11:15. The Germ. Ver. agrees with this.-E. B.