Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
many—including the "false teachers."
after the flesh—as fleshly men are wont to boast, namely, of external advantages, as their birth, doings, etc. (compare II Corinthians 11:22).
I will glory also—that is, I also will boast of such fleshly advantages, to show you that even in these I am not their inferiors, and therefore ought not to be supplanted by them in your esteem; though these are not what I desire to glory in (II Corinthians 10:17).
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