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1818 Feb. 13 Notes at top of page:
1818 Feb. 13 Notes at top of page:

‘Boasting from beginning to end is the business of the following long chapter: and

the next to it as […?] the greater part of the last preceding one boasting the

means, money-catching as appears from the two preceding Chapters VIII & IX

the end.’

Not Paul

I Argument

Paul’s Character

9

Boasting

II. Cor. XI. 1 to 33. 1. Would to God you could bear with me, a little on my folly:

and indeed bear with me―

2. For I am jealous over you with god by jealousy: for I have espoused you to one

husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

3. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,

so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if

ye receive another spirit, which he have not received, or another gospel, which ye

have not accepted, y might well bear with him.

5. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostle.

6. But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly

made manifest among you in all things.

7. Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I

have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

8. I robbed other churches, taking wages of them to do you service―

9. And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that

which was lacking to me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all

things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

10. As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the

region of Achaia.

11. Wherefore: because I love you not? God knoweth.

12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which

desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as me.
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