Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 12:10:
Lamentations 3:21
Hosea 12:3
Zechariah 4:6
Acts 26:16-18
2 Corinthians 1:8-9
2 Corinthians 11:27
2 Corinthians 11:30
2 Corinthians 12:9
2 Corinthians 13:4
Galatians 4:13
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