2 Corinthians 11:29

2 Corinthians 11:29

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27 in weariness and toil, ^ain sleeplessness often, ^bin hunger and thirst, in ^cfastings often, in cold and nakedness—

28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: ^amy deep concern for all the churches.

29 ^aWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

30 If I must boast, ^aI will boast in the things which concern my¹ infirmity.

31 ^aThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^bwho is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Commentaries:

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I . . . weak—in condescending sympathy with the weak (I Corinthians 9:22). "Care generates sympathy, which causes the minister of Christ personally to enter into the feelings of all his people, as if he stood in their position, so as to accommodate himself to all" [CALVIN].

offended—by some stumbling-block put in his way by others: the "weak" is most liable to be "offended."

I burn not—The "I" in the Greek is emphatic, which it is not in the former clause, "I am not weak." I not only enter into the feeling of the party offended, but I burn with indignation at the offender, I myself taking up his cause as my own. "Who meets with a stumbling-block and I am not disturbed even more than himself" [NEANDER].

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