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After the introduction of 2Co_10:1-2, which plunges at once in medium rem, Paul, in the first place, makes good against his opponents the power of his genuinely apostolic working (2Co_10:1-8), in order to repel the malicious attack that he was strong only in letters (2Co_10:9-11). This leads him to set forth in contradistinction the very different modes of self-judgment, which are followed by him and his arrogant opponents (2Co_10:12-16), after which there is further held up to the latter the Christian standard of self-boasting (2Co_10:17-18).
REMARK.
The difference of the subject-matter—with the importance of that which had now to be decided—and the emotion excited in the high and pure self-consciousness of the grievously injured Paul, so sufficiently explain the change of tone which at once sets in, and this tone, calculated for the entire discomfiture of his enemies, is just in the last part of the Epistle—after the church as such (as a whole) had been lovingly won over—so suited to its object, that there is no ground at all for the hypothesis of ch. 10–13:10 having formed a separate Epistle (see Introd. § 2).