Teks -- 2 Corinthians 11:20 (NET)

11:20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

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Robertson: 2Co 11:20 - For ye bear with a man

For ye bear with a man ( anechesthe gar ).

"You tolerate tyranny, extortion, craftiness, arrogance, violence, and insult"(Plummer). Sarcasm that cut to the bone. Note the verb with each of the five conditional clauses (enslaves, devours, takes captive, exalteth himself, smites on the face). The climax of insult, smiting on the face.

Vincent: 2Co 11:20 - Bringeth you into bondage

Bringeth you into bondage ( καταδουλοῖ )

Only here and Gal 2:4, where it is used of the efforts of the Jewish party to bring the christian Church under the ceremonial law. Compare Gal 5:1.

Vincent: 2Co 11:20 - Devour

Devour ( κατεσθίει )

Your property. Compare Mat 23:14.

Vincent: 2Co 11:20 - Take

Take ( λαμβάνει )

A.V. supplies of you , evidently with reference to property, which has already been touched upon in devour . The meaning is to take as a prey , as Luk 5:5.

Vincent: 2Co 11:20 - Exalteth himself

Exalteth himself ( ἐπαίρεται )

As 2Co 10:5. It is noticeable that these are the only two instances out of nineteen in the New Testament where the word is used figuratively.

Vincent: 2Co 11:20 - Smite you on the face

Smite you on the face

The climax of insult. Compare Mat 5:39; Luk 22:64; Act 23:2. Also the injunction to a bishop not to be a striker , 1Ti 3:3; Tit 1:7. Stanley notes the decree of the Council of Braga, a.d. 675, that no bishop, at his will and pleasure, shall strike his clergy.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - For ye suffer

Not only the folly, but the gross abuses, of those false apostles.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - If a man enslave you

Lord it over you in the most arbitrary manner.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - If he devour you

By his exorbitant demands; not - withstanding his boast of not being burdensome.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - If he take from you

By open violence.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - If he exalt himself

By the most unbounded self - commendation.

Wesley: 2Co 11:20 - If he smite you on the face

(A very possible case,) under pretence of divine zeal.

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - For

Ye may well "bear with" fools; for ye even "bear with" oppressors. Translate, "Ye bear with them."

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - a man

As the false apostles do.

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - bring you into bondage

To himself. Translate "brings," not "bring"; for the case is not merely a supposed case, but a case actually then occurring. Also "devours" (namely, by exactions, Mat 23:24; Psa 53:4), "takes," "exalts," "smites."

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - take of you

So the Greek for "take" is used for "take away from" (Rev 6:4). ALFORD translates, as in 2Co 12:16, "catches you."

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - exalt himself

Under the pretext of apostolic dignity.

JFB: 2Co 11:20 - smite you on the face

Under the pretext of divine zeal. The height of insolence on their part, and of servile endurance on yours (1Ki 22:24; Neh 13:25; Luk 22:64; Act 23:2; 1Ti 3:3).

Clarke: 2Co 11:20 - For ye suffer

For ye suffer - As you are so meek and gentle as to submit to be brought into bondage, to have your property devoured, your goods taken away, yourselves laid in the dust, so that others may exalt themselves over you, yea, and will bear from those the most degrading indignity; then of course, you will bear with one who has never insulted, defrauded, devoured, taken of you, exalted himself against you, or offered you any kind of indignity; and who only wishes you to bear his confident boasting, concerning matters which he can substantiate

The expressions in this verse are some evidence that the false apostle was a Judaizing teacher. You suffer, says the apostle, if a man, καταδουλοι, bring you into bondage, probably meaning to the Jewish rites and ceremonies, Gal 4:9; Gal 5:1. If he devour you; as the Pharisees did the patrimony of the widows, and for a pretense made long prayers; if a man take of you, exact different contributions, pretendedly for the temple at Jerusalem, etc. If he exalt himself, pretending to be of the seed of Abraham, infinitely higher in honor and dignity than all the families of the Gentiles; if he smite you on the face - treat you with indignity, as the Jews did the Gentiles, considering them only as dogs, and not fit to be ranked with any of the descendants of Jacob.

Calvin: 2Co 11:20 - For ye bear with it, if any one

20.For ye bear with it, if any one There are three ways in which this may be understood. He may be understood as reproving the Corinthians in irony, because they could not endure any thing, as is usually the case with effeminate persons; or he charges them with indolence, because they had given themselves up to the false Apostles in a disgraceful bondage; or he repeats, as it were, in the person of another, what was spitefully affirmed respecting himself, ⁸⁴⁵ as if he claimed for himself a tyrannical authority over them. The second meaning is approved by Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Augustine, and hence it is commonly received; and, indeed, it corresponds best with the context, although the third is not less in accordance with my views. For we see, how he was calumniated from time to time by the malevolent, as if he domineered tyrannically, while he was very far from doing so. As, however, the other meaning is more generally received, I have no objection, that it should be held as the true one.

Now this statement will correspond with the preceding one in this way: “You bear with every thing from others, if they oppress you, if they demand what belongs to you, if they treat you disdainfully. Why then will you not bear with me, as they are in no respect superior to me?” For as to his saying that he is not weak, he means that he had been endowed by God with such excellent graces, that he ought not to be looked upon as of the common order. For the word weak has a more extensive signification, as we shall see again ere long.

It has been the invariable custom, and will be so to the end, to resist contumaciously ⁸⁴⁶ the servants of God, to get enraged on the least occasion, ⁸⁴⁷ to grumble and murmur incessantly, to complain of even a moderate strictness, ⁸⁴⁸ to hold all discipline in abhorrence; while, on the other hand, they put themselves under servile subjection to false apostles, impostors, or mere worthless pretenders, give them liberty to do any thing whatever, and patiently submit to and endure, whatever burden they may choose to impose upon them. Thus, at the present day, you will scarcely find one in thirty, who will put his neck willingly under Christ’s yoke, while all have endured with patience a tyranny so severe as that of the Pope. Those very persons are all at once in an uproar, ⁸⁴⁹ in opposition to the fatherly and truly salutary reproofs of their pastors, who, on the other hand, had formerly swallowed down quietly every kind of insult, even the most atrocious, from the monks. ⁸⁵⁰ Are not those worthy of Antichrist’s torturing rack, rather than of Christ’s mild sway, who have ears so tender and backward to listen to the truth? But thus it has been from the beginning.

TSK: 2Co 11:20 - if a man bring // take // a man smite

if a man bring : 2Co 1:24; Gal 2:4, Gal 4:3, Gal 4:9, Gal 4:25, Gal 5:1, Gal 5:10, Gal 6:12

take : Rom 16:17, Rom 16:18; Phi 3:19; 1Th 2:5

a man smite : Isa 50:6; Lam 3:30; Luk 6:29

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Poole: 2Co 11:20 - devour

If any domineer over you, as if you were their slaves, or if any bring you into subjection to the rites of the ceremonial law; if they

devour and make a prey of you, take wages of you, and do nothing without hire; if they carry themselves proudly, exalting themselves above you; nay, if they

smite you you will suffer and bear with such: this is more than to bear with a little folly and indiscretion in me. This is observable, that men of corrupt hearts and loose lives will better bear with teachers that will humour and spare them in their lusts, than with such as are faithful to their souls in instructing and reproving them, though they carry themselves with the greatest innocency and justice towards them.

Haydock: 2Co 11:20

St. Paul still continues to speak ironically, that they will permit him to praise himself in his own justification, since they have permitted these false teachers to reduce them to bondage under the law, to devour their substance, and to behave haughtily to them, striking them on the face, &c. (Calmet)

Gill: 2Co 11:20 - For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage // if a man take of you // if a man exalt himself // if a man smite you on the face

For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage,.... They not only suffered and tolerated the foolish boasting of these men with pleasure, but patiently and stupidly bore their oppressions, injuries, and insults, things that were intolerable, which no man of any sense and wisdom would ever suffer; and yet they took all quietly from them, made no objection, but patiently submitted to them, and therefore might well bear a little with him; they were voluntarily led captive, and brought into bondage by them, to the yoke of the ceremonial law, to the observance of circumcision, meats and drinks, days, months, times and years; and to the yoke of human doctrines, traditions, tenets, laws, and rules: if a man devour or eat; though they devoured their houses, as the Pharisees did; ate up their substance, were insatiable in their covetousness; were greedy dogs that could never have enough, could not satisfy their voracious appetites, without devouring and consuming all they had, yet they took it patiently:

if a man take of you; not food and raiment, or a proper stipend, or wages which might be voluntarily raised, and cheerfully given; but they took away their goods from them by force, as the Arabic version reads it, whether they would or not, to which they quietly submitted:

if a man exalt himself; as these men did, extolling their nation, their descent and lineage, their parentage and education, and fleshly privileges; in suiting the Corinthians as persons of a mean and base extraction, as having been Heathens and sinners of the Gentiles, yet not a word was returned in answer thereunto:

if a man smite you on the face; though they gave them very opprobrious language, vilifying and reproaching them as uncircumcised persons, upbraiding and hitting them on the teeth with their former idolatries and manners of life; yet all was taken in good part, so much were they under the government and influence of these men.