Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For—My claim is superior to that of the false teachers, "For," etc.
I suppose—I reckon [ALFORD].
I was not—Greek, "That I have not been, and am not."
the very chiefest apostles—James, Peter, and John, the witnesses of Christ's transfiguration and agony in Gethsemane. Rather, "those overmuch apostles," those surpassers of the apostles in their own esteem. This sense is proved by the fact that the context contains no comparison between him and the apostles, but only between him and the false teachers; II Corinthians 11:6 also alludes to these, and not to the apostles; compare also the parallel phrase, "false apostles" (see on II Corinthians 11:13 and II Corinthians 12:11) [ALFORD].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 11:5:
Numbers 12:3
2 Corinthians 11:13
2 Corinthians 12:11
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