{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1788","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul says that he is being foolish when he starts to talk about himself but that he is forced to do so because these people were harboring unworthy thoughts, when they of all people ought to be thinking well of him.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Being about to enter upon his own praises he uses much previous correction. And he does this not once or twice, although the necessity of the subject, and what he had often said, were sufficient excuse for him. For he that remembereth sins which God remembered not, and who therefore saith that he was unworthy of the very name of the Apostles, even by the most insensate is seen clearly not to be saying what he is now going to say, for the sake of glory. For if one must say something startling, even this would be especially injurious to his glory, his speaking something about himself; and to the more part it is offensive. But nevertheless he regarded not timidly any of these things, but he looked to one thing, the salvation of his hearers. But still in order that he might not cause harm to the unthinking by this, by saying, I mean, great things of himself, he employs out of abundant caution these many preparatory correctives, and says, \"Would that ye could bear with me,\" whilst I play the fool in some little things, yea, rather, \"ye do indeed bear with me.\" Beholdest thou wisdom? For when he says, \"would that,\" it is as putting it at their disposal: but when he even asserts [that they do], it is as confiding greatly in their affection, and as declaring that he both loves and is loved. Yea, rather, not from bare love merely, but from a sort of warm and insane passion he says that they ought to bear with him even when he plays the fool.<br/><i>— Homily 23 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: Paul calls himself foolish in order to demonstrate that it is those who boast about themselves who really are the foolish ones.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 11</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Paul realizes that wise people do not boast of themselves, but he has been forced to do so.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 340</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1eb2cd5b1580b6a181fbfb4937277d3688ee0dcefbab4989211b5715372cf6bc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1788,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"cae17d2055005939c199e3b69169977b0bb90ea55ad5795b792c68f3eadf03b5","translator":null,"work":null}