ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 12 v1

RAISED UP. AMBROSIASTER: Paul is now going to describe how he has been raised up in order that the Corinthians might understand how great and how wonderful the things said to him were and that they might realize that he is not inferior in any way to the other apostles. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

BOASTING CAUSES PRIDE. CHRYSOSTOM: It is not so much the deeds themselves which are the cause of pride, as our telling them to others. Good deeds will not puff anybody up unless they are witnessed to and remarked upon by others. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 26.1.

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