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What is Fleshly Boasting?
Commentators explain that to "glory after the flesh" means to boast in worldly, external things like ancestry, rank, reputation, or education. Paul identifies this as the method of his opponents, who focus on superficial credentials rather than a good conscience and the true essence of spiritual life.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
18th Century
Theologian
Seeing that many glory, etc. The false teachers in Corinth. They boasted of their birth, rank, natural endowments, eloquence, etc. ([Refer…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
After the flesh (κατα σαρκα). It is κατα σαρκα not κατα Κυριον.
I also (καγω). But he knows that it is a b…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
19th Century
Bishop
Seeing that many glory after the flesh.—To glory, or boast, after the flesh, as interpreted by 2 Corinthians 5:16 (wh…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
These two verses are likely a sort of parenthesis. Under normal circumstances, Paul claims, his conduct and words as a servant of Christ and of the…
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
16th Century
Theologian
Since many glory. The meaning is — should anyone say to me, by way of objection, that what I do is faulty, what then about others…
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 11:18
17th Century
Pastor
Seeing that many glory after the flesh
Or with respect to things external, such as their high birth and parentage, c…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 11:16–21
17th Century
Minister
It is the duty and practice of Christians to humble themselves, in obedience to the command and example of the Lord; yet prudence must direct which…