2 Corinthiërs 10:13

13 Doch wij zullen niet roemen buiten de maat; maar dat wij, naar de maat des regels, welke maat ons God toegedeeld heeft, ook tot u toe zijn gekomen.

2 Corinthiërs 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 Corinthiërs 10:13 In-Context

11 Dezulke bedenke dit, dat hoedanigen wij zijn in het woord door brieven, als wij afwezig zijn, wij ook zodanigen zijn inderdaad, als wij tegenwoordig zijn.

12 Want wij durven onszelven niet rekenen of vergelijken met sommigen, die zichzelven prijzen; maar deze verstaan niet, dat zij zichzelven met zichzelven meten, en zichzelven met zichzelven vergelijken.

13 Doch wij zullen niet roemen buiten de maat; maar dat wij, naar de maat des regels, welke maat ons God toegedeeld heeft, ook tot u toe zijn gekomen.

14 Want wij strekken onszelven niet te wijd uit, als die tot u niet zouden komen; want wij zijn ook gekomen tot u toe, in het Evangelie van Christus;

15 Niet roemende buiten de maat in anderer lieden arbeid, maar hebbende hoop, als uw geloof zal gewassen zijn, dat wij onder ulieden overvloediglijk zullen vergroot worden naar onzen regel;