Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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
2 Corinthians 12:11
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