2 Corinthiens 11:18

18 Puisqu'il en est plusieurs qui se glorifient selon la chair, je me glorifierai aussi.

2 Corinthiens 11:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 11:18

Seeing that many glory after the flesh
Or with respect to things external, such as their high birth and parentage, carnal descent, circumcision, learned education, and the like; of which the false apostles, being Jews, boasted, who it seems were many; and though a multitude is not to be followed to do evil, yet the apostle thought, that since there were so many who were indulged by this church in this way, he might be allowed to boast also of such like things, so far as he could with truth and a good conscience, and in order to secure some valuable ends:

I will glory also;
for he was of the seed of Abraham as well as they, of the stock of Israel, and tribe of Benjamin, circumcised the eighth day, and brought up at the feet of Gamaliel; but these are not all the things he could, and would, and did glory of; he gloried of these, and of others besides them, which the false apostles could not, and thereby proved himself to be superior to them, even in external things, of which they bragged so much.

2 Corinthiens 11:18 In-Context

16 Je le répète, que personne ne me regarde comme un insensé; sinon, recevez-moi comme un insensé, afin que moi aussi, je me glorifie un peu.

17 Ce que je dis, avec l'assurance d'avoir sujet de me glorifier, je ne le dis pas selon le Seigneur, mais comme par folie.

18 Puisqu'il en est plusieurs qui se glorifient selon la chair, je me glorifierai aussi.

19 Car vous supportez volontiers les insensés, vous qui êtes sages.

20 Si quelqu'un vous asservit, si quelqu'un vous dévore, si quelqu'un s'empare de vous, si quelqu'un est arrogant, si quelqu'un vous frappe au visage, vous le supportez.