Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For--Not but that I might glory as to "myself" (2 Corinthians 12:5); "FOR if I should desire to glory, I shall not be a fool"; for I have things to glory, or boast of which are good matter for glorying of (not mere external fleshly advantages which when he gloried in [2Co. 11:1-33] he termed such glorying "folly," 2 Corinthians 11:1, 2 Corinthians 11:16-17).
think of me--Greek, "form his estimate respecting me."
heareth of me--Greek, "heareth aught from me." Whatever haply he heareth from me in person. If on account of healing a cripple (Acts 14:12-13), and shaking off a viper (Acts 28:5), the people thought him a god, what would they have not done, if he had disclosed those revelations? [ESTIUS]. I wish each of you to estimate me by "what he sees" my present acts and "hears" my teaching to be; not by my boasting of past revelations. They who allow themselves to be thought of more highly than is lawful, defraud themselves of the honor which is at God's disposal [BENGEL] (John 5:44; John 12:43).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 26:16-18
Galatians 4:15
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