17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool.
17 I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ.
17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
17 Such boasting is not from the Lord, but I am acting like a fool.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:17
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:16-21
(Read 2 Corinthians 11:16-21)
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 in what it is needful to do things which we may do lawfully, even the speaking of what God has wrought for us, and in us, and by us. Doubtless here is reference to facts in which the character of the false apostles had been shown. It is astonishing to see how such men bring their followers into bondage, and how they take from them and insult them.