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2Co_11:31. He is now about to illustrate (see 2Co_11:32-33) the just announced τὰ τῆς ἀσθενείας μου καυχήσομαι by an historical enumeration of his sufferings from the beginning, but he first prefaces this detailed illustration (“rem quasi difficilem dicturus,” Pelagius) by the assurance, in God’s name, that he narrates nothing false. The objections taken against referring this assurance to what follows (see Estius and Rückert)—that the incident adduced in 2Co_11:32 stands, as regards importance, out of all proportion to so solemn an assurance, and the like—lose their weight, when we reflect that Paul has afterwards again broken off (see 2Co_12:1) the narrative begun in 2Co_11:32-33, and therefore, when writing his assurance, referred it not merely to this single incident, but also to all which he had it in his mind still to subjoin (which, however, was left undone owing to the interruption). Others refer the oath to what precedes, and that either to everything said from 2Co_11:23 onward (Estius, Calovius, Flatt, Olshausen), or to 2Co_11:30 alone (Morus, Rückert, Hofmann; Billroth gives a choice between the two). But in the former case logically we could not but have expected 2Co_11:31 after 2Co_11:29, and in the latter case the assurance would appear as quite irrelevant, since Paul at once begins actually to give the details of his τὰ τῆς ἀσθεν . μου καυχήσομαι (2Co_11:31 f.).
ὁ θεὸς κ . πατὴρ τ . κυρ . ἡμ . Ἰ . Χ .] Union of the general and of the specifically Christian idea of God. Ἡμῶν γὰρ θεὸς τοῦ δὲ κυρίου πατήρ , Theodoret. Comp. on 1Co_15:24 and Eph_1:3.
ὁ ὢν εὐλογητὸς κ . τ . λ .] appended by the apostle’s pious feeling, in order to strengthen the sacredness of the assurance. “Absit ut abutar ejus testimonio, cui omnis laus et honor debetur in omnem aeternitatem,” Calovius.