Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians John Calvin
Chapter
2 Corinthians 11:1-6
2 Corinthians 11:1-6 1. Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
1. Utinam tolerassetis me paulisper in insipientia mea: imo etiam sufferte me. 1686
2. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2. Nam zelotypus sum erga vos Dei zelo: adiunxi enim vos uni viro, ad exhibendam virginem castam Christo.
3. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
3. Sed metuo, ne qua fiat, ut quemadmodum serpens Evam decepit versutia sua: ita corrumpantur sensus vestri a simplicitate, quae est in Christo.
4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him
4. Nam si is qui venit, (vel, si quis veniens,) alium Iesum praedicat, quem non praedicavimus; aut si alium Spiritum accipitis, quem non accepitis: aut Evangelium aliud, quod non accepistis, recte sustinuissetis.
5. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 5. Arbitror enim me nihilo inferiorem fuisse eximiis Apostolis. 6. But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
6. Caeterum licet imperitus sim sermone, non tamen scientia: verum ubique manifesti fuimus in omnibus erga vos.
1. Would that ye did bear with me. As he saw that the ears of the Corinthians were still in part pre-engaged, 1687 he has recourse to another contrivance, for he turns to express a wish, as persons do when they do not venture openly to entreat. 1688 Immediately afterwards, however, as if 1686"Mesme aussi supportez moy, ou, et certes vous me supportez;" — "Even so bear with me, or, and certainly you do bear with me."
1687"Des propos des faux apostres;" — "By the speeches of the false apostles." 1688"Ceux ausquels ilsont affaire;" — "Those with whom they have to do."