Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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Gill's Exposition
And my temptation which was in my flesh,.... The same with the infirmity of his flesh, and which was a trial of his faith and patience, and every other grace, as the afflictions of the saints be. The…
Barnes' Notes
Ye know how - To show them the folly of their embracing the new views which they had adopted, he reminds them of past times, and particularly of the strength of the attachment which they had evinced…
Adam Clarke
Ye know how through infirmity - The apostle seems to say that he was much afflicted in body when he first preached the Gospel to them. And is this any strange thing, that a minister, so laborious as…
That these Christians might be the more ashamed of their defection from the truth of the gospel which Paul had preached to them, he here reminds them of the great affection they formerly had for him…
Cambridge Bible
through infirmity of the flesh Rather, as R.V. -because of an infirmity of the flesh", owing to bodily sickness.
What was this infirmity? Most commentators identify it with the -thorn in the flesh",…
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