2 Corinthians 11:12 - Exposition

Occasion ; rather, the occasion . Wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. "These new teachers boast to you how disinterested they are. Well, then, I have proved myself to be equally disinterested." But the words apparently involve a most stinging sarcasm. For these teachers were not in reality disinterested, though they boasted of being so; on the contrary, they were exacting, insolent, and tyrannical ( 2 Corinthians 11:20 ), and did not preach gratuitously ( 1 Corinthians 9:12 ), though they sneered at the apostle for doing so. Being radically false ( 2 Corinthians 11:12 , 2 Corinthians 11:13 ), "while they were," as Theodoret says, "openly boasting, they were secretly taking money," and therefore were not "even as we."