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14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into aan angel of light.  
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, awhose end will be according to their works.  

Reluctant Boasting

16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
17 What I speak, aI speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.  
18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
19 For you put up with fools gladly, asince you yourselves are wise!  
20 For you put up with it aif one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.  
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2 Corinthians 11:16

Let no man think me foolish (mh tiv me doch afrona einai). Usual construction in a negative prohibition with mh and the aorist subjunctive doch (Robertson, Grammar, p. 933).

But if ye do (ei de mh ge). Literally, "But if not at least (or otherwise)," that is, If you do think me foolish.

Yet as foolish (kan wv afrona). "Even if as foolish." Paul feels compelled to boast of his career and work as an apostle of Christ after the terrible picture just drawn of the Judaizers. He feels greatly embarrassed in doing it. Some men can do it with complete composure (sang froid).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 11:16:

2 Corinthians 12:6
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