2 Corinthians 11:18

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܡܶܛܽܠ ܕ݁ܣܰܓ݁ܺܝܶܐܐ ܡܶܫܬ݁ܰܒ݂ܗܪܺܝܢ ܒ݁ܒ݂ܶܣܪܳܐ ܐܳܦ݂ ܐܶܢܳܐ ܐܶܫܬ݁ܰܒ݂ܗܰܪ ܀

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: 2 Corinthians 11:12, 2 Corinthians 11:21-23, 2 Corinthians 10:12-18, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, 1 Corinthians 4:10, 1 Peter 1:24

I will: 2 Corinthians 12:5, 2 Corinthians 12:6, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:11

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 10:18 - Israel 2 Corinthians 10:7 - even 2 Corinthians 11:17 - foolishly Galatians 6:13 - that they may Philippians 3:4 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seeing that many glory after the flesh,.... Or with respect to things external, such as their high birth and parentage, carnal descent, circumcision, learned education, and the like; of which the false apostles, being Jews, boasted, who it seems were many; and though a multitude is not to be followed to do evil, yet the apostle thought, that since there were so many who were indulged by this church in this way, he might be allowed to boast also of such like things, so far as he could with truth and a good conscience, and in order to secure some valuable ends:

I will glory also; for he was of the seed of Abraham as well as they, of the stock of Israel, and tribe of Benjamin, circumcised the eighth day, and brought up at the feet of Gamaliel; but these are not all the things he could, and would, and did glory of; he gloried of these, and of others besides them, which the false apostles could not, and thereby proved himself to be superior to them, even in external things, of which they bragged so much.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seeing that many glory ... - The false teachers in Corinth. They boasted of their birth, rank, natural endowments, eloquence, etc.; see 2 Corinthians 11:22. Compare Philippians 3:3-4.

I will glory also - I also will boast of my endowments, which though somewhat different yet pertain in the main to the “flesh” also; see 2 Corinthians 11:23 ff. His endowments “in the flesh,” or what he had to boast of pertaining to the flesh, related not so much to birth and rank, though not inferior to them in these, but to what the flesh had endured - to stripes and imprisonments, and hunger and peril. This is an exceedingly delicate and happy turn given to the whole subject.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. Seeing that many glory after the flesh — Boast of external and secular things.