2 Coríntios 12:5

5 Desse tal me gloriarei, mas de mim mesmo não me gloriarei, senão nas minhas fraquezas.

2 Coríntios 12:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:5

Of such an one will I glory
The apostle in great modesty seems to speak of some other person, and not himself, as caught up into the third heaven, when he yet means himself; and does as it were distinguish himself from himself; himself in paradise from himself on earth; his sense is, that though he might lawfully glory of such a person so highly exalted and favoured, yet since this was his own case, he chose to forbear, and say no more of it:

yet of myself I will not glory;
though he could, and might, and did glory in the Lord, who had done such great things for him; as that he was in Christ, and knew himself to be so, had been rapt up into heaven, and heard things unutterable; yet he would not glory of these things as from himself, as owing to any merit or worthiness of his, but as instances of mere favour, grace, and goodness; if he gloried of anything of himself in his present state and condition, it should be of his weaknesses:

but in mine infirmities;
not his sinful ones, for these he mourned over, and was humbled before God and man under a sense of; but his many pressing difficulties of life, heavy reproaches, very great afflictions, and violent persecutions he endured for Christ's sake; see ( 2 Corinthians 12:10 ) .

2 Coríntios 12:5 In-Context

3 Sim, conheço o tal homem (se no corpo, se fora do corpo, não sei: Deus o sabe),

4 que foi arrebatado ao paraíso, e ouviu palavras inefáveis, as quais não é lícito ao homem referir.

5 Desse tal me gloriarei, mas de mim mesmo não me gloriarei, senão nas minhas fraquezas.

6 Pois, se quiser gloriar-me, não serei insensato, porque direi a verdade;

7 E, para que me não exaltasse demais pela excelência das revelações, foi-me dado um espinho na carne, a saber, um mensageiro de Satanás para me esbofetear, a fim de que eu não me exalte demais;