But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
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Gill's Exposition
Not boasting of things without our measure,.... The apostle here asserts what he had done before, Co2 10:13 with a view to explain it, as he does, saying,
that is of other men's labours; when they…
Barnes' Notes
But we will not boast of things without our measure - Tyndale renders this:” But we will not rejoice above measure.” There is great obscurity in the language here, arising from its brevity. But the…
Adam Clarke
Things without our measure - There is a great deal of difficulty in this and the three following verses, and there is a great diversity among the MSS.; and which is the true reading can scarcely be…
In these verses observe,
I. The apostle refuses to justify himself, or to act by such rules as the false apostles did, Co2 10:12. He plainly intimates that they took a wrong method to commend…
Cambridge Bible
of things without our measure Literally, unto the measureless things, i.e. -beyond the measure which God has meted out to us," -beyond the region of our own work, which was ever, save in the case of…
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