2 Corinthians 13:3

3. Since The 2 Corinthians 13:3-8 must be taken as a separate paragraph, with a period (and not a colon, as in the English version) at close of 2 Corinthians 13:2. The key-word running through the passage, δοκιμη , test, in its different forms, is unhappily translated in our version without due uniformity. The connexion between 2 Corinthians 13:3; 2 Corinthians 13:5 is: Since ye seek a test of me Test your own selves. From which, inclusive to you, 2 Corinthians 13:4, is a parenthesis. The word proof or test, 2 Corinthians 13:3, reappears in prove, 2 Corinthians 13:5, and in reprobates, test-condemned, in 2 Corinthians 13:5-7. The thought running through the whole is, Since you are putting my apostleship to the test, see that your own genuineness, as Christians, can stand the test.

Proof of Christ speaking in me They, the Christine influence in Corinth, were putting St. Paul’s authority from Christ to experiment. Christ speaking in me is a very intense declaration of his own inspiration from Christ. It claims that his own apostolic words are Christ’s words.

Which Who, referring to Christ. The Christ speaking in me… is not weak, but mighty in his announcements, threatenings, and sentences of judgment, toward (not in) you.