2 Corinthians 12:11 - Exposition

A fool (see 2 Corinthians 11:16 ). For I ought. The " I " is emphatic. You compelled me to become senseless in boasting of myself to you, whereas I ought to have been commended by you . To have been commended. The verb gives one more side allusion, not without bitterness, to the commendatory epistles of which his adversaries boasted ( 2 Corinthians 3:1 ; 2 Corinthians 5:12 ; 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 ). The very chiefest apostles. The same strange compound, "out and out apostles," is used as in 2 Corinthians 11:5 ; comp. Galatians 2:6 .