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2Co_11:22. Now comes the specializing elucidation of that ἐν ᾧ δʼ ἄν τις τολμᾷ , τολμῶ κἀγώ , presented so as directly to confront his enemies. Comp. Php_3:5. Observe, however, that the opponents in Corinth must have still left circumcision out of the dispute.
The three names of honour, in which they boasted from their Judaistic point of view, are arranged in a climax, so that Ἑβραῖοι , which is not here in contrast to the Jews of the Diaspora, points to the hallowed nationality, Ἰσραηλῖται to the theocracy (Rom_9:4 f.), and σπέρμα Ἀβραάμ , to the Messianic privilege (Rom_11:1; Rom_9:7, al.), without, however, these references excluding one another. The interrogative interpretation of the three points corresponds to the animation of the passage far more than the affirmative (Erasmus, Luther, Castalio, Estius, Flatt, and others).