Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Corinthians 12:10
take pleasure in—too strongly. Rather as the Greek, "I am well contented in."
infirmities—the genus. Two pairs of species follow, partly coming from "Satan's messenger," partly from men.
reproaches—"insults."
when—in all the cases just specified.
then—then especially.
strong—"powerful" in "the power of Christ" (II Corinthians 12:9; II Corinthians 13:4; Hebrews 11:34).
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