Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Corinthians 12:6

"For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me." — 2 Corinthians 12:6 (ASV)

For though I would desire to glory... He had said in the preceding verse that he will glory only in his infirmities. He is about to lay bare to their gaze the greatest of all those infirmities. “If I were to boast of that,” he says, “I will not be acting as a madman does”—(the thought of insanity is dominant throughout the words “fool” and “folly”)—“for I will confine myself to a simple statement of fact.”