2 Corintios 12:5

5 De éste tal me gloriaré, mas de mí mismo en nada me gloriaré, sino en mis flaquezas

2 Corintios 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 Corintios 12:5 In-Context

3 Y conozco al tal hombre, (si en el cuerpo, o fuera del cuerpo, no lo sé: Dios lo sabe)

4 que fue arrebatado al paraíso, donde oyó palabras inefables que el hombre no puede decir

5 De éste tal me gloriaré, mas de mí mismo en nada me gloriaré, sino en mis flaquezas

6 Por lo cual si quisiera gloriarme (de estas cosas,) no sería loco, porque diré la verdad; pero lo dejo, para que nadie piense de mí más de lo que en mí ve, u oye

7 Y para que la grandeza de las revelaciones no me exalte descomedidamente, me es dado un aguijón en mi carne, un mensajero de Satanás que me abofetee, para que no me enaltezca sobremanera