Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
are glad—Greek, "rejoice."
when we are weak—having no occasion for displaying our power; and so seeming "weak," as being compassed with "infirmities" (II Corinthians 10:10; II Corinthians 11:29-30).
ye . . . strong—"mighty" in faith and the fruits of the Spirit.
and—not in the oldest manuscripts.
we wish—Greek, "pray for."
your perfection—literally, "perfect restoration"; literally, that of a dislocated limb. Compare II Corinthians 13:11, "Be perfect," the same Greek word; also in I Corinthians 1:10, "perfectly joined together"; Ephesians 4:12, "the perfecting of the saints."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 13:9:
Acts 20:3
1 Corinthians 4:10
1 Corinthians 5:4
2 Corinthians 13:1
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