2 Corintios 12:5

5 De esa experiencia vale la pena jactarse, pero no voy a hacerlo. Sólo me jactaré de mis debilidades.

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 Es cierto, solo Dios sabe si estaba yo en mi cuerpo o fuera del cuerpo; pero sí sé

4 que fui llevado al paraíso y oí
cosas tan increíbles que no pueden expresarse con palabras, cosas que a ningún humano se le permite contar.

5 De esa experiencia vale la pena jactarse, pero no voy a hacerlo. Sólo me jactaré de mis debilidades.

6 Si quisiera jactarme, no sería ningún necio al hacerlo porque estaría diciendo la verdad; pero no lo haré, porque no quiero que nadie me atribuya méritos más allá de lo que pueda verse en mi vida u oírse en mi mensaje,

7 aun cuando he recibido de Dios revelaciones tan maravillosas. Así que, para impedir que me volviera orgulloso, se me dio una espina en mi carne, un mensajero de Satanás para atormentarme e impedir que me volviera orgulloso.