2 Coríntios 12:5

5 Nesse homem me gloriarei, mas não em mim mesmo, a não ser em minhas fraquezas.

2 Coríntios 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 Coríntios 12:5 In-Context

3 E sei que esse homem—se no corpo ou fora do corpo, não sei, mas Deus o sabe—

4 foi arrebatado ao paraíso e ouviu coisas indizíveis, coisas que ao homem não é permitido falar.

5 Nesse homem me gloriarei, mas não em mim mesmo, a não ser em minhas fraquezas.

6 Mesmo que eu preferisse gloriar-me não seria insensato, porque estaria falando a verdade. Evito fazer isso para que ninguém pense a meu respeito mais do que em mim vê ou de mim ouve.

7 Para impedir que eu me exaltasse por causa da grandeza dessas revelações, foi-me dado um espinho na carne, um mensageiro de Satanás, para me atormentar.