ATDTDA (2): Second Corinthians 11:19 (32.32)

[Tim Strzechowski]

Vibe chuckled soothingly.  "The Professor's afraid you're going to chase me off with radical talk like that.  But I am not that sensitive a soul, I am guided, as ever, by Second Corinthians." [...]

"Suffering fools is unavoidable," said Ray Ipsow, "but don't ask me to be 'glad' about it" (p. 32).


Second Corinthians is one of the four letters of Paul known as the Hauptbriefe, which are universally accepted to contain authentic Pauline correspondence.

Werner Georg Kummel would like to view the letter to be a whole composed by the apostle Paul on one occasion (Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 287-293).

However, there are difficulties that have suggested to several commentators that 2 Corinthians has been compiled from several pieces of correspondence. Since the "sorrowful letter" mentioned in 2:4 does not describe 1 Corinthians, we know that Paul had written at least three letters to the Corinthians. A quite reasonable suggestion is that the last four chapters contain the "sorrowful letter" that is mentioned in 2:4.

Other evidence bears out this view. Edgar J. Goodspeed notes a few considerations that suggest disunity in 2 Corinthians (An Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 58-59). On the one hand, "From the beginning through chapter 9 it is pervaded by a sense of harmony, reconciliation, and comfort." On the other, "With the beginning of chapter 10 we are once more in the midst of personal misunderstanding and bitterness, and these continue to dominate the letter to the end . . . This undeniable incongruity between the two parts of II Corinthians naturally suggests that we have in it two letters instead of one - one conciliatory and gratified, the other injured and incensed. And as the early part of II Corinthians clearly looks back upon a painful, regretted letter, the possibility suggests itself that we actually have that letter in chapters 10-13."

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/2corinthians.html

http://www.versebyverse.org/doctrine/intro-2cor.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians

 

2nd Corinthians 11:16 - 21: 

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 

Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 

I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

http://www.kingjamesversionofthebible.com/47-secondcorinthians.html