2 Corintios 10:13

13 Mas nosotros no nos gloriaremos desmedidamente, sino dentro de la medida de la esfera que Dios nos señaló como límite para llegar también hasta vosotros.

2 Corintios 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 10:13

But we will not boast of things without our measure
Or things unmeasurable; meaning not doctrines, the knowledge of which they had not attained to, and which were not to be measured by reason or revelation, such as the Gnostics boasted of; but the sense is, that they would not glory in, and boast of actions, that were never done by them, within the compass of their ministration, as the false apostles did; who pretended that they had been everywhere, and had preached the Gospel, and had made converts in all parts of the world; but the apostle and his fellow labourer, desired only to speak of those things which were done of them, and of their successful labours:

according to the measure of the rule;
not the measure of the gift of Christ, or of faith bestowed upon them; nor the measuring rule and canon of the Scriptures, though both are truths; but the places or parts of the world, which God in his secret purpose had fixed, and in his providence directed them to preach in: or as he says,

which God hath distributed to us;
parted and divided to them; assigning such and such places to some, and such and such to others, as he himself pleased, to discharge their ministerial office in; drawing as it were a line, or setting a bound, by which and how far each should go, and no further:

a measure to reach even unto you;
the line of their ministration was drawn, or the bounds of their preaching were carried from Judea, and through all the intermediate places to Corinth, so that the Corinthians were properly under the jurisdiction of the apostles, and in their district; wherefore the false apostles had really no right nor claim to be among them; nay, their measure reached to the ends of the world, according to ( Psalms 19:4 ) "their line" (Mwq) , "is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world".

2 Corintios 10:13 In-Context

11 Esto tenga en cuenta tal persona: que lo que somos en palabra por carta, estando ausentes, lo somos también en hechos, estando presentes.

12 Porque no nos atrevemos a contarnos ni a compararnos con algunos que se alaban a sí mismos; pero ellos, midiéndose a sí mismos y comparándose consigo mismos, carecen de entendimiento.

13 Mas nosotros no nos gloriaremos desmedidamente, sino dentro de la medida de la esfera que Dios nos señaló como límite para llegar también hasta vosotros.

14 Pues no nos excedemos a nosotros mismos, como si no os hubiéramos alcanzado, ya que nosotros fuimos los primeros en llegar hasta vosotros con el evangelio de Cristo;

15 no gloriándonos desmedidamente, esto es, en los trabajos de otros, sino teniendo la esperanza de que conforme vuestra fe crezca, nosotros seremos, dentro de nuestra esfera, engrandecidos aún más por vosotros,