2 Korinther 11:18

18 Sintemal viele sich rühmen nach dem Fleisch, will ich mich auch rühmen.

2 Korinther 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 Korinther 11:18 In-Context

16 Ich sage abermals, daß nicht jemand wähne, ich sei töricht; wo aber nicht, so nehmet mich als einen Törichten, daß ich mich auch ein wenig rühme.

17 Was ich jetzt rede, das rede ich nicht als im HERRN, sondern als in der Torheit, dieweil wir in das Rühmen gekommen sind.

18 Sintemal viele sich rühmen nach dem Fleisch, will ich mich auch rühmen.

19 Denn ihr vertraget gern die Narren, dieweil ihr klug seid.

20 Ihr vertraget, so euch jemand zu Knechten macht, so euch jemand schindet, so euch jemand gefangennimmt, so jemand euch trotzt, so euch jemand ins Angesicht streicht.