Exposition on 2 Corinthians 11.1–13.13
Latin text: Souter, TS 9.2 (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 11
11.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289
Utinam sustineretis modicum quid. Sustinete me uel parum, qui alios multum sustinere consue[ui]stis. Insipientiae meae. Insipientem se dicit, quia illi necesse erat aliqua de se dicere, licet uera, ut ostendat quam uere insipientes sint qui falso se laudant. Sed et supportate me:
"Would that you would bear with a little" Bear with me even a little, you who have been accustomed to bear much with others. "of my foolishness." He calls himself foolish because he had to say some things about himself, though true, to show how truly foolish are those who praise themselves falsely. "But do bear with me:"
2 Cor 11:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's "foolish" boasting exposes those who praise themselves falsely.
- Souter brackets -ui- in consueuistis; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289
aemulor enim uos dei aemulatione: despondi enim uos uni uiro uirginem castam adsignare Christo. Non in illos stimulo liuoris inflammor, sed uos tamquam pater diuina aemulatione custodio, ut possim u[o]s inmaculatos Christo coniungere, tanto maiore studio conseruatos quanto meliori estis sponso iungendi.
"for I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God: for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." I am not inflamed against them by the goad of envy, but like a father I guard you with divine jealousy, so that I may join you spotless to Christ, kept with so much greater zeal as you are to be joined to a better bridegroom.
2 Cor 11:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul guards the church as a father keeps a virgin for her bridegroom, Christ.
- Souter brackets the o of uos; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR stray mark): aemulaiione → aemulatione; adsigna/re → adsignare; Cliristo → Christo.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289–290
Timeo autem ne sicut serpens Euam seduxit astutia sua , sic uestri sensus corrumpantur . Serpens Euam de deo mentiendo seduxit, adfirmans solo terrore deum comminatum esse mortem, non etiam inlaturum. ita et pseudo-apostoli adserebant ideo euangelii praecepta addita, ut uel sic lex antiqua seruaretur, et eam solam sufficere custoditam. per quorum imitatores etiam [nunc] serpens similiter quosdam seducit [femineos mores habentes], gehennam propter solum terrorem adserens nominari, quam aut penitus non esse aut aeternam non esse adfirmant contra auctoritatem omnium scripturarum. Et excidant a simplicitate . Qua dei uerbis simpliciter credere debetis, non hominum peruersorum. Et castitate quae est in Christo [ Iesu ]. [Castitas] castus sensus est, qui [in] uni uiro coniungitur Christo, et solius illi semel promissa sufficiunt.
"But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his cunning, so your minds be corrupted." The serpent seduced Eve by lying about God, asserting that God had threatened death only to frighten, not that he would inflict it. So too the false apostles asserted that the precepts of the gospel had been added only so that at least in this way the old law might be kept, and that the law alone, if kept, sufficed. Through their imitators the serpent in the same way seduces some, asserting that hell is named only to frighten; they affirm that it either does not exist at all or is not eternal, against the authority of all the scriptures. "And fall away from the simplicity." With which you ought simply to believe the words of God, not of perverse men. "And the chastity which is in Christ." Chastity is a chaste mind, which is joined to one husband, Christ, and is content with what he alone has once promised.
2 Cor 11:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:4 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: As the serpent deceived Eve, false teachers deny the reality and eternity of hell.
- Souter brackets nunc ("now"), "who have womanish ways," Iesu, Castitas, and in; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR dropped letter; OCR slip): Timeo utem → Timeo autem; uestri ensus → uestri sensus; ieduxit → seduxit; earn → eam; simpiiciter → simpliciter; lesu → Iesu.
Topics: Eschatology, Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289–290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290
Nam si his qui ueni[un]t [ad uos] alium Christum praedica[ri]t, quem [nos] non praedicauimus , aut alium spiritum accepistis, quem non accepimus, aut aliut euangelium, [ quod non recepistis,] recte pateremini. Si uobis amplius [aliquid] gratiae praestarent quam per nos accepistis, recte eos nobis praeponi forsitan pateremini.
"For if he who comes preaches another Christ, whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit, which we did not receive, or another gospel, you would rightly bear with it." If they offered you more grace than you received through us, you would perhaps rightly allow them to be preferred to us.
2 Cor 11:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Only a better gospel could justify preferring the rivals.
- Souter brackets -un- in ueniunt, "to you," -ri- in praedicarit, nos, "which you did not receive," and aliquid; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip; OCR slip): praedica[ri\t, quern [nos] → praedica[ri]t, quem [nos]; accepistis, quern non → accepistis, quem non.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290
Existimo enim me in nullo inferiorem fuisse a magnis apostolis. Quanto magis ab istis qui sunt nihil! Siue: [Ne] putetis uos ab illis ecclesiis quibus Petrus et ceteri praedicauerunt, minus aliquid accepisse.
"For I think that I was in nothing inferior to the great apostles." How much more to these, who are nothing! Or: lest you think you received anything less than those churches to which Peter and the rest preached.
2 Cor 11:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul is not inferior to the great apostles.
- Souter brackets Ne ("lest"), kept for the sense; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): puteis → putetis.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290–291
Et si imperitus [sum] sermone , sed non scientia. Non ut isti qui, cum sint scientia imperiti, [in] sermone tumido gloria[n]tur. In omnibus [autem] manifestatus sum [in] uobis. Ostendit integritatem suam, qu[i]a secundum deum omnia fecerit, cum nec auaritiam nec gulam neque gloriam ab eis aliquando quaesierit.
"And even if I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge." Not like these who, though unskilled in knowledge, glory in swollen speech. "But in all things I have been made manifest to you." He shows his integrity, that he did everything according to God, since he never sought from them anything for greed, gluttony, or glory.
2 Cor 11:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul lacks eloquence, not knowledge, and sought nothing for himself.
- Souter brackets sum, in twice, the n of gloriantur, autem, and the i of quia; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket): [autem\ → [autem].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290–291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291
Aut numquid peccatum feci , me ipse humilians, ut uos exaltemini? Si forte hoc solum peccaui, quia propter uos et[iam] licita et concessa contempsi. Quoniam gratis euangelium dei euangelizaui uobis. Quia nec panem [quidem] cotidianum, quem ordinauit dominus, a uobis accepi[mus].
"Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted?" If perhaps I sinned only in this, that for your sake I despised even what was lawful and granted. "Because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge." Because I did not accept from you even the daily bread which the Lord ordained.
2 Cor 11:7 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 9:14 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul preached free of charge, forgoing even his right to bread.
- Souter brackets -iam in etiam, quidem, and -mus in accepimus; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; word split in OCR): fed → feci; licit a → licita; quern → quem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291
Alias ecclesias expoliaui, accipiens stipendium in ministerium uestrum. Cum uobis praedicarem, mihi Macedones ministrabant.
"I robbed other churches, taking wages for ministry to you." When I preached to you, the Macedonians ministered to me.
2 Cor 11:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Macedonians supported Paul while he preached at Corinth.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291
Et cum apud uos essem et egerem, nulli grauis fui. Hoc fuit ex ueritate infirmitatem portare paruulorum, ut nec tunc quidem uellet accipere cum egeret. Nam [id] quod mihi deerat , adimpleuerunt fratres qui uenerunt a Macedonia . Quod non occurrebam manibus laborando, [adimpleuerunt fratres,] qui non erant infirmi nec pseudo-apostolos susceperant, quin immo reuincebant. Et [in omnibus] sine onere [uestro] me [uobis] seruaui et seru[ab]o. Quam diu infirmos habueritis inter uos.
"And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one." This was truly to bear the weakness of little ones, that he would not accept anything even when he was in need. "For what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied." What I did not cover by working with my hands, the brothers supplied, who were not weak and had not received the false apostles, but rather refuted them. "And I have kept myself and will keep myself without burden." As long as you have weak people among you.
2 Cor 11:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul accepted nothing from the Corinthians for the sake of the weak.
- Souter brackets id, "the brothers supplied," "in all things," uestro, uobis, and -ab- in seruabo; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR stray mark; words run together in OCR): grauisfui → grauis fui; de-erat → deerat.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291–292
Est ueritas Christi in me. Sicut Christus quod semel statuit, non mutauit, nec est aliquando mentitus, ita faciam. Quoniam haec gloria[tio ] non infringitur in me in regionibus Achaiae. Gloria est propter deum etiam concessa contemnere, praecipue si inopiam patiatur. Quare? quia uos non diligo? deus scit. Ipse nouit utrum uos diligam an non: immo ideo a uobis non accipio, quia multum uos diligo.
"The truth of Christ is in me." As Christ did not change what he once determined, nor ever lied, so I will do. "That this boasting will not be broken in me in the regions of Achaia." It is glory, for God's sake, to despise even what is granted, especially if one suffers want. "Why? Because I do not love you? God knows." He himself knows whether I love you or not: on the contrary, I accept nothing from you because I love you much.
2 Cor 11:10 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 11:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul refuses support out of love, not coldness.
- The section covers 2 Cor 11:10–11. Souter brackets -tio in gloriatio; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (verse number 11 leaked from the page): ll Quare → Quare.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291–292; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292
Quod autem facio et facturus sum , ut amputem occasionem eorum qui uolunt occasionem , ut in quo gloriantur [tales] inueniantur sicut et nos. Hic reddit causam qua re ipse non acciperet, et aduersarii cur docerent gulam auaritiamque sectantes, quaerentes per Paulum aditum inuenire lucrandi, ut, si [hic uel] panem acciperet, illi aurum licentius exigerent. ideo tollit occasionem apostolus, ut in hoc apparea[n]t quia propter deum docent, si a discipulis nihil expectent. [Aliter: Unus quisque doctor, nisi fructum laboris uiderit, non docebit, alius pecuniam, alius laudem, alius [quaerit] profectum.}
"But what I do I will also do, so that I may cut off the occasion from those who want an occasion, so that in what they boast they may be found as we are." Here he gives the reason why he himself did not accept anything, and why his adversaries, pursuing gluttony and greed, were teaching: they sought through Paul to find a way to gain, so that, if he accepted even bread, they might demand gold more freely. Therefore the apostle takes away the occasion, so that in this it may appear whether they teach for God's sake, if they expect nothing from disciples.
2 Cor 11:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul accepts nothing so that greedy rivals have no pretext.
- Souter brackets tales, "he even," the n of appareant, and a passage, left out: "Otherwise: no teacher will teach unless he sees the fruit of his labor; one seeks money, another praise, another progress."
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Hie → Hic; hie → hic.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292–293
Nam eius modi pseudo-apostoli [sunt]. Dicentes : “ Haec dicit dominus,” cum ipse non miserit eos, et uisiones a corde suo [e]loquuntur. Operarii subdoli , transfigurant[es ] se in apostolos Christi. Subdolus est qui aliut fingit cum aliut agit, ut sub contemplatione euangelicae praedicationis contegat rapacitatem: tales enim praedicatores, ut hominibus placeant, necesse est adulari. [et] ut adulando placeant et placendo decipiant, ea quae se commendent dicturi sunt, non quae aedificent audientem. plerique sane non tam pecuniam desiderant quam honorem, arbitrantes se summis opibus esse ditatos, si ab hominibus conlaudentur, sed nec pecunias ideo spernunt quia non ament, sed quia in reconditis habent, nec contemnunt quod habent, sed quaerunt quod non habent. ueri autem et simplices magistri apostolos imitantur dicentes: ‘neque enim fuimus in sermone adulationis aliquando nec in occasione auaritiae, nec quaerentes ab hominibus gloriam neque a uobis neque ab aliis.’
"For such are false apostles." Saying, "Thus says the Lord," when he did not send them, and they speak visions from their own heart. "Deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ." He is deceitful who pretends one thing while doing another, so as to cover rapacity under the show of gospel preaching: for such preachers, to please men, must flatter; to please by flattering and deceive by pleasing, they will say what commends themselves, not what builds up the hearer. Many indeed desire not so much money as honor, thinking themselves enriched with the greatest wealth if they are praised by men; yet they do not despise money because they do not love it, but because they have it stored away; nor do they despise what they have, but seek what they do not have. But true and simple teachers imitate the apostles, who say: "For we never came with words of flattery, nor with a pretext for greed, nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others."
2 Cor 11:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 23:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Jer 23:21 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Thess 2:5 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Thess 2:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: False apostles flatter for gain or honor; true teachers imitate the apostles' simplicity.
- Souter brackets sunt, the e of eloquuntur, -es in transfigurantes, and et; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292–293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:293–294
Neque mirum, cum ipse satanas transfiguret se in angelum lucis. Non est tam facile somniis aut aliquibus uisionibus quasi angelici[s] fides habenda, ne forte transfiguret se satanas in angelum lucis, et decipiat ac fallat incautos.
"And no wonder, since Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." Belief should not be given so easily to dreams or to visions as if they were angelic, lest Satan perhaps transform himself into an angel of light and deceive and mislead the unwary.
2 Cor 11:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Visions and dreams must be tested, since Satan poses as an angel of light.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket): angelicifs] → angelici[s].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:293–294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294
Non est ergo magnum si ministri eius transfigurentur uelut ministri iustitiae . Non mirum si ministri satanae auaritiae uel gloriae causa fingant se iustitiam praedicare. Quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum . Mala opera malus finis expectat.
"So it is no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness." No wonder if Satan's ministers, for the sake of greed or glory, pretend to preach righteousness. "Whose end will be according to their works." An evil end awaits evil works.
2 Cor 11:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Satan's ministers pose as preachers of righteousness, but will be judged by their works.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): transjigurentur → transfigurentur.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294
Iterum dico , ne quis me putet insipientem. alioquin uelut insipientem accipite me , ut et ego modicum quid glorier. Iam enim superius dixerat : ‘sustinete modicum quid insipientiae meae,’ et reddiderat rationem quod zelo dei eos zelaret. non gloriae desiderio esset de se aliqua narraturus, sed ne [in] eius odium uersi falsos apostolos sequerentur. si ergo insipientia eius tam sapiens est, qu[oni]am sapiens erit ipsa sapientia! simul notandum quod mirum esse non debeat, si ad tempus falsa doctrina praeualeat, cuius auctoribus in fine uindicta promittitur.
"Again I say, let no one think me foolish; otherwise receive me as foolish, so that I too may boast a little." He had already said above: "Bear with a little of my foolishness," and had given the reason, that he was jealous for them with God's jealousy: he would tell something of himself not from a desire for glory, but lest, turned to hatred of him, they follow the false apostles. If then his foolishness is so wise, how wise will wisdom itself be! At the same time it is to be noted that it should not seem strange if false teaching prevails for a time, since punishment is promised to its authors at the end.
2 Cor 11:16 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 11:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's "foolish" boasting is wise, meant to keep the Corinthians from false apostles.
- Souter brackets in and -oni- in quoniam; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): acdpite → accipite; tarn → tam; sapiential → sapientia!.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294
Quod loquor , non loquor secundum deum, sed ut in insipientia[m]. Si hic necessitate populi [dei] conpulsus negat secundum deum se gloriari, quid de illis sentiendum est qui sola iactantia gloriantur ! In hoc substantia gloriationis. Est enim alia uera substantia gloriandi.
"What I say I do not say according to God, but as in foolishness." If he, compelled by the needs of the people, denies that he boasts according to God, what is to be thought of those who boast from mere vanity! "In this substance of boasting." For there is another, true substance of boasting.
2 Cor 11:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's boasting is forced; others boast from vanity.
- Souter brackets the m of insipientiam and dei ("of God"); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): hie → hic.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294–295
Qu[on]ia[m] multi gloriantur , et ego secundum carnem gloriabor. Quoniam in nobilitate terreni generis gloriari carnale est.
"Since many boast, I too will boast according to the flesh." Because boasting in the nobility of earthly descent is carnal.
2 Cor 11:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Boasting in descent is carnal.
- Souter brackets letters of quoniam; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together in OCR): camem → carnem; carnaleest → carnale est.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294–295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295
Libenter enim suffertis insipientes, cum sitis ipsi sapientes. Uideo enim uos, cum edocti sitis ista nullius esse momenti, facile insipientibus consensisse.
"For you gladly bear with fools, since you yourselves are wise." For I see that you, though taught that these things are of no account, easily agreed with fools.
2 Cor 11:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians too readily listened to boasting fools.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295
Sustinetis enim , si quis uos in seruitutem redegerit. Legis uel Pharisaeorum, qui dominatum in populo exercebant. Si quis deuorat. [Si quis accipit.] Conuiuiis uel muneribus. Si quis accipit. Pecuniam. Si quis extollitur. Iudaica superbia, uel de scientia uel de generis qualitate. Si quis in faciem uos caedit. Si quis etiam praesentes obiurgat.
"For you bear it if someone brings you into slavery." Of the law or of the Pharisees, who exercised dominion over the people. "If someone devours." By banquets or gifts. "If someone takes." Money. "If someone exalts himself." With Jewish pride, about knowledge or the quality of his descent. "If someone strikes you in the face." If someone even rebukes you to your face.
2 Cor 11:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians tolerated domineering, greedy, proud teachers.
- Souter brackets a repeated "If someone takes"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (word split in OCR): rede gerit → redegerit.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295
Secundum ignobilitatem dico. Ignobilitas enim maxima est, si filii dei [de] terrena nobilitate se iactent. Quasi nos infirmi fuerimus [in hoc parte], in quo quis audet. Quasi nos in hac parte ab illis minus aliquid habeamus. In insipientia[m] dico , audeo et ego. Possum audere, si uolo.
"I speak according to dishonor." For it is the greatest dishonor for sons of God to boast of earthly nobility. "As though we had been weak, in which anyone dares." As though we had something less than they in this respect. "I speak in foolishness: I too dare." I can dare, if I wish.
2 Cor 11:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Sons of God dishonor themselves by boasting of earthly nobility.
- Souter brackets de, "in this respect," and the m of insipientiam; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket): In insipientia[m\ → In insipientia[m].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.22Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295
Hebraei sunt , et ego: Istrahelitae sunt , et ego: semen Abrahae sunt , et ego. Si in hoc gloriantur, et ego huius sum gentis.
"Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I." If they boast in this, I too am of this race.
2 Cor 11:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul matches his rivals' Jewish descent.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): sicnt → sunt; hums → huius.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.23Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295
Ministri Christi sunt[, et ego]: ut minus sapiens dico: ‘magis ego.’ Notandum quia, si quis de Christi saltim ministerio glorietur, non sapienter hoc faci[a]t. In laboribus plurimis , in carceribus abundantius, in plagis super modum , in mortibus frequenter.
"Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as less wise: I more." It is to be noted that if anyone boasts even of the ministry of Christ, he does not do this wisely. "In very many labors, in prisons more abundantly, in beatings beyond measure, in deaths often."
2 Cor 11:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Even boasting of ministry is unwise, but Paul's sufferings exceed all.
- Souter brackets "so am I" and the a of faciat; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): sunt[yet ego] → sunt[, et ego]; ‘ rnagis ego.' → ‘magis ego.’.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.24Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295–296
a Iudaeis quinquies quadragenas una minus accepi. Quinque uicibus tricenas et nouenas quasi transgressor legis accepit: haec autem in Actibus [Apostolorum] non omnia repperiuntur, quia nec in Epistolis omnia quae ibi scripta sunt continentur.
"From the Jews five times I received forty lashes less one." Five times he received thirty-nine as a transgressor of the law. Not all these things are found in the Acts, because neither are all the things written there contained in the Letters.
2 Cor 11:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 25:3 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul was flogged five times as a supposed lawbreaker.
- Souter brackets Apostolorum; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nee → nec.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295–296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.25Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
Ter uirgis caesus sum; semel lapidatus sum; ter naufragium feci ; nocte et die in profundum maris fui . In ultimo periculo, cum nauem in profundum tempestate deductam mole fluctuum operiri putaremus..
"Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea." In the utmost danger, when we thought the ship, driven into the deep by the storm, would be covered by the mass of the waves.
2 Cor 11:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul lists beatings, stoning, and shipwrecks.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): semd → semel; fed → feci; node → nocte.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.26Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
[In] itineribus saepe ; periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in ciuitate , periculis in deserto, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus. ‘Qui nostram explorare subintroierant libertatem.’
"On journeys often; in dangers of rivers, dangers of robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from the gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers." "Who had slipped in to spy out our liberty."
2 Cor 11:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 2:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul faced dangers everywhere, even from false brothers.
- Souter brackets In; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip; OCR misread punctuation; OCR misread quotation mark; OCR slip): [In\ itinerihus → [In] itineribus; genere9 → genere,; gentzbus → gentibus; duitate → ciuitate; mart → mari; libertatem/ → libertatem.’.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.27Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
In laboribus , in miseriis , in uigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in ieiuniis multis . Fames necessita[ti]s est, ieiunium uoluntatis. In frigore et nuditate ,
"In labors, in miseries, in many vigils, in hunger and thirst, in many fastings." Hunger is of necessity, fasting of will. "In cold and nakedness,"
2 Cor 11:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Hunger is forced, fasting chosen.
- Souter brackets -ti- in necessitatis; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): laborzbus , in misemis → laboribus , in miseriis; muUis → multis; nudztate → nuditate.
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.28Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
praeter illa quae extrinsecus sunt , instantia mea cotidiana, sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. Praeter illa quae per consuetudinem leuiora esse uidentur.
"besides those things that are without, my daily pressure, the care of all the churches." Besides those things which through habit seem lighter.
2 Cor 11:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Beyond outward trials Paul bears care for all the churches.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): praeter ilia quae → praeter illa quae; eoctrinsecus → extrinsecus; cotidianay sollidtudo → cotidiana, sollicitudo; Praeter ilia quae → Praeter illa quae.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.29Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
Quis infirmatur et ego non infirmo[r]? quis scandalizatur et ego non uror? Cum infirmantibus infirmor, cum pereuntibus perire me credo : sic enim uror tristitia, ut animo ardere me sentiam.
"Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn?" With the weak I am weak; with those who perish I think that I perish: for I so burn with sadness that I feel my mind on fire.
2 Cor 11:29 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul shares the weakness and grief of every believer.
- Souter brackets the r of infirmor; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): infvrmatur → infirmatur.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.30Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
Si gloriari oportet . Iam si gloriari necesse est in his quae non ad laetitiam, sed ad maerorem pertinent, gloriabor. Quae infirmitatis meae sunt gloriabor . Omnes superiores necessitates uno infirmitatis nomine definiuit, eo quod humanae infirmitati ista praeualeant.
"If I must boast." If it is now necessary to boast in things that pertain not to joy but to grief, I will boast. "I will boast of the things that are of my weakness." He defined all the necessities above by the one name of weakness, because they prevail over human weakness.
2 Cor 11:30 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul boasts only in his weakness.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.31Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296
Deus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi scit , qui est benedictus in saecula , quod non mentior.
"The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie."
2 Cor 11:31 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 11:31.
- The comment follows at 11:33.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR stray mark): sdt → scit; bened/ictus → benedictus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.32Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296–297
Damasci praepositus gentis [princeps] Aret[h]ae regis custodiebat ciuitatem Damascenorum, ut me conprehenderet,
"At Damascus the governor of the nation under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes, in order to seize me,"
2 Cor 11:32 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 11:32.
- Souter brackets princeps and the h of Arethae; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): Damasd → Damasci; duitatem Damascenorum y → ciuitatem Damascenorum,.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.32 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296–297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.33Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297
et per fenestram in sporta[m ] sum missus [non] per murum et sic effugi manus eius . Rem quasi [diffieilem] dicturus, quod Iudaei contra eum etiam principes gentium concitassent, ante implorat testimonium dei, ne uere hoc iactantiae putaretur, quod aduersus eum etiam regna surrexerint et nihil potuerint praeualere. haec autem [omnia] idcirco enumerat, ut ostendat quid sit inter ueros et falsos apostolos. [‘ Damasci praepositus. ’] Praepositus gentis illius erat ubi regnabat Ar[a]etha.
"and I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and so escaped his hands." About to tell something as it were hard to believe, that the Jews had stirred up even the rulers of the gentiles against him, he first calls on God's testimony, lest it be thought a boast that even kingdoms rose against him and could not prevail. He lists all these things to show the difference between true and false apostles. He was the governor of that nation where Aretas reigned.
2 Cor 11:33 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 9:25 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul calls God to witness that even kings conspired against him in vain.
- Souter brackets the m of sportam, non, difficilem, omnia, a repeated lemma ("the governor of Damascus"), and an a in Araetha; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.33 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 12
12.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297
[Si] gloriari oportet , [et] non expedit mihi . Nec mihi expedit, qui necessitate conpellor. Ueniam autem ad uisiones et reuelationes domini . Sibi infirmitates reputat, domino uisiones adscribit.
"If I must boast, it is not expedient for me." Nor is it expedient for me, who am compelled by necessity. "But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord." He attributes weaknesses to himself; visions he ascribes to the Lord.
2 Cor 12:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul credits his visions to the Lord, his weaknesses to himself.
- Souter brackets Si and et; left out, "If" kept for the sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR misread brackets; OCR slip): [Si\ → [Si]; \et\ → [et]; adscnbit → adscribit.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297–298
Scio hominem in Christo . Siue [de se] humilitatis causa in alterius persona loquatur, siue de alio, [uere] potest utrumque constare. Ante annos XIIII, siue in corpore, [nescio,] siue extra corpus, nescio , deus scit: raptum huius modi usque ad tertium caelum . Uide quanta necessitas fuit, ut quod annis XIIII celauerat, prodere cogeretur.
"I know a man in Christ." Whether he speaks in another's person for the sake of humility, or of another, both can hold. "Fourteen years ago, whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows: such a one was caught up to the third heaven." See how great the necessity was, that he was compelled to disclose what he had concealed for fourteen years.
2 Cor 12:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul, perhaps speaking of himself, reveals a vision hidden for fourteen years.
- Souter brackets "about himself," uere, and the first nescio; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): Sdo → Scio; XIII I y → XIIII,; nesdo , deus sdt → nescio , deus scit.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297–298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298
Et scio [scio] huius modi hominem, (siue in corpore siue extra corpus, nescio: deus scit,)
"And I know such a man (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know: God knows),"
2 Cor 12:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 12:3.
- Souter brackets a repeated scio; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): Jiuius → huius; cor fore → corpore; nesdo → nescio.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298
quoniam raptus est in paradisum. Quod iterum repetit, ostendit alteram fuisse uisionem. Et audiuit arcana uerba, quae non licet homini[bus] loqui . Siue : Quae nulli dici fas est. Siue : Quae inpossibile est humanam enarrare naturam [ :hoc contra Arrium].
"that he was caught up into paradise." That he repeats it shows that there was a second vision. "And heard secret words which it is not permitted for man to speak." Either: which it is not lawful to tell anyone. Or: which human nature cannot express.
2 Cor 12:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul heard unspeakable words in a second vision.
- Souter brackets -bus in hominibus and "this against Arius"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (word split in OCR): f uisse → fuisse.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298
Pro eius modi gloriabor, pro me autem nihil [gloriabor ] nisi in infirmitatibus meis . [Pro eius modi] uisione uel homine[,pro me autem nihil], Aliter: Non gloriabor in mea uirtute, quia non est reuelatio mea, sed dei.
"On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf nothing, except in my weaknesses." Of the vision or of the man. Otherwise: I will not boast in my own power, because the revelation is not mine but God's.
2 Cor 12:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The revelation is God's, so Paul boasts only of weakness.
- Souter brackets gloriabor and parts of the comment ("Of such a one," "but of myself nothing"); left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298
Nam et si uoluero gloriari , non ero stultus: [iam] enim ueritatem dicam. Hic uidetur ostendere quod de alio dicat, cum etiam [se] dicat causas gloriandi habere, se[d] nolle. Parco autem, ne quis me existimet supra id quod uidet [me] aut audit [quid] ex me. Sufficiunt manifesta, etiam si celentur occulta.
"For even if I wish to boast, I will not be foolish: for I will speak the truth." Here he seems to show that he is speaking of another, since he says that he has reasons for boasting but does not wish to. "But I refrain, lest anyone think of me beyond what he sees or hears from me." The manifest things suffice, even if hidden ones are concealed.
2 Cor 12:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul refrains from boasting so as to be judged by what is seen.
- Souter brackets iam, se, the d of sed, me, and quid; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Hie → Hic.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298–299
Et ne magnitudo reuelationum extollat me, datus est mihi stimulus carnis meae, angelus satanae. Quanta putatis esse quae celo, ut merito mihi esset stimulus necessarius, qui me hominem esse semper mihi[met] demonstraret ! Ut me colaphizet[,ut non extollar]. Aut tribulationes suscitando aut dolores: quidam enim dicunt eum frequenti dolore capitis laborasse.
"And lest the greatness of the revelations exalt me, there was given me a goad of my flesh, an angel of Satan." How great do you think the things are that I conceal, that I rightly needed a goad to show me always that I am a man! "To buffet me." Either by stirring up tribulations or pains: for some say he suffered from frequent headaches.
2 Cor 12:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's thorn kept him humble; some think it was headaches.
- Souter brackets -met in mihimet and "lest I be exalted"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket): mihifmet] → mihi[met].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298–299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299
Propter quod ter dominum rogaui ut discederet a me,
"For this I asked the Lord three times that it might depart from me,"
2 Cor 12:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 12:8.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299
et dixit mihi : Sufficit tibi gratia mea; nam uirtus in infirmitate perficitur. Hi[n]c intellegimus etiam sanctos ignoranter non numquam aliqua [in]impetrabilia postulasse. simul etiam discimus quod inportuna petitio uel responsum mereatur, si non meretur effectum. Libentissime magis itaque gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis, ut inhabitet in me uirtus Christi . Post quam cognoui prodesse quod putabam nocere.
"and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness." Hence we understand that even saints have sometimes unknowingly asked for things that could not be granted. At the same time we also learn that importunate petition merits at least an answer, if it does not merit the effect. "Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me." After I learned that what I thought harmful was beneficial.
2 Cor 12:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Even saints may ask what cannot be granted; persistent prayer earns an answer.
- Souter brackets the n of hinc and in- in inimpetrabilia; left out, the sense "could not be granted" kept.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip): Suffidt → Sufficit; perfidtur → perficitur; nnmqnam → numquam; [injimpetrabilia → [in]impetrabilia; mds → meis.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299
Propter quod placeo mihi in infirmitatibus, in contumeliis[, in necessitatibus, in angustiis]. Non in honoribus. In necessitatibus. Non in otio. In angustiis. Non in diuitiis. In persecutionibus pro Christo . Non pro crimine : unde saluator docuit ut sola causa iustitiae patiamur, Petro similiter adtestante. Cum enim infirmor, tunc potens sum. Maxima potentia est infirmari pro Christo, et magnae diuitiae indigere.
"Therefore I am content in weaknesses, in insults." Not in honors. "In necessities." Not in leisure. "In distresses." Not in riches. "In persecutions for Christ." Not for a crime: hence the Savior taught that we should suffer only for the sake of righteousness, and Peter testifies likewise. "For when I am weak, then I am strong." It is the greatest power to be weak for Christ, and great riches to be in need.
2 Cor 12:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:10 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Pet 4:15 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Weakness and persecution for Christ are true strength.
- Souter brackets "in necessities, in distresses" in the first lemma (they follow as separate lemmas); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): contumdiis → contumeliis.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299–300
Insipiens factus sum . Insipientis esse dicit aliquem se in laboribus iactare uel uirtutibus. Uos me coegistis : ego enim debui a uobis commendari: nam nihil minus fui ab hi[i]s qui supra modum [ualde] sunt apostoli. Sed hoc uos coegistis qui, cum aliis de me satis facere deberetis, quod nihil minus fuerim a magnis apostolis, iterum opus [uos] habetis, ut uobis denuo conmendemur. [Tam]etsi nihil sum ,
"I have become foolish." He says it is the part of a fool to boast of one's labors or powers. "You compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for I was in nothing less than those who are apostles beyond measure." But you compelled this, you who, though you ought to have satisfied others about me, that I was in nothing less than the great apostles, again need us to be commended to you anew. "Even though I am nothing,"
2 Cor 12:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians forced Paul to commend himself, though he equals the great apostles.
- Souter brackets an i in hiis, ualde, uos, and Tam- in tametsi; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; running head and line number leaked from the page): foetus → factus; Vos me → Uos me; hi\%]s → hi[i]s; FELAGt EXPOSITIO [XII 12hoc → hoc.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299–300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300
sed signa apostolatus perfecta sunt inter uos in omni potentia, signis et prodigiis et uirtutibus. Ego quidem nihil sum ut homo, sed apostolatus sua in uobis signa monstrauit, hoc est, patientiam in moribus et prodigia in signis.
"yet the signs of apostleship were accomplished among you in all power, in signs and wonders and powers." I indeed am nothing as a man, but the apostleship showed its signs among you, that is, patience in conduct and wonders in signs.
2 Cor 12:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's apostleship was proved by patience and signs.
- The lemma reads "in all power" (potentia), but the comment explains "patience" (patientia), the usual reading.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300
Quid est enim quod minus habueritis prae ceteris ecclesiis? Quibus alii apostoli praedicarunt. Nisi quod ego ipse non grauaui uos ? donate mihi hanc iniuriam:
"For what is it in which you had less than the other churches?" To which other apostles preached. "Except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong:"
2 Cor 12:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Corinth lacked nothing but the burden of supporting Paul.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; line number leaked from the page): hdbueritis → habueritis; ecdesiis → ecclesiis; ? xo donate → ? donate.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300
[ecce tertium hoc paratus sum uenire ad uos , et non uos grauabo ;] non enim quaero quae uestra sunt[, sed uos], Salutem uestram desidero, non munera. Nec [enim] debent filii parentibus thesaurizare , sed parentes filiis . Ego magis, si haberem, uobis dare deberem.
["Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you;"] "for I do not seek what is yours." I desire your salvation, not gifts. "For children ought not to lay up for parents, but parents for children." Rather I, if I had anything, should give to you.
2 Cor 12:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul seeks the Corinthians' salvation, not their goods, as a parent provides for children.
- Souter brackets the first lemma (kept in brackets so the verse appears), "but you," and enim; the last two left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; misread bracket): sunsed uos] → sunt[, sed uos]; fUi → filii.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300–301
Ego autem [uobis] libentissime inpendam et superimpendar ipse pro animabus uestris [abundantius] [licet plus] uos diligens minus diligor . Quod habeo, laborem meum impendo, et plus quam possum impendar: perfecta enim dilectio non solum totum quod habet gratis impendit, sed [etiam] ipsa libenter superimpenditur, si necesse est.
"But I will most gladly spend and be spent myself for your souls, loving you, I am loved less." What I have, my labor, I spend, and I will be spent more than I am able: for perfect love not only spends freely all it has, but also gladly spends itself, if it is necessary.
2 Cor 12:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Perfect love spends itself for others.
- Souter brackets uobis, abundantius, "though more," and etiam; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip; OCR slips): Ubmtissime → libentissime; animar bus → animabus; [abundantius\ → [abundantius].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300–301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301
Sed [ergo] esto: ego [autem] non grauaui uos, sed cum essem astutus, dolo uos cepi. numquid per aliquem illorum quos misi ad uos, circumueni uos? Per omnia se purgat, ipsorum semper conscientiam testem inuocans, simulque eis quo modo se ab illis possint cauere demonstrat.
"But be it so: I did not burden you, but being crafty, I caught you by guile. Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?" He clears himself in every way, always calling their own conscience as witness, and at the same time shows them how they can guard themselves against those men.
2 Cor 12:16 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul defends his honesty and that of his envoys.
- The section covers 2 Cor 12:16–17. Souter brackets ergo and autem; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; verse number 17 leaked from the page; OCR slips): linumquid per diquem ittorum quos mist → numquid per aliquem illorum quos misi; ipsoruna → ipsorum; inuocanfl, smndque → inuocans, simulque; eauere → cauere.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301
Rogaui Titum, et misi cum illo fratrem. numquid uos Titus circumuenit? Numquid [aliquid] uobis ad me Abstulit [ad me] perferendum? Non[ne] eodem spiritu ambulauimus ? non[ne] [in] hisdem uestigiis ? Nonne uno spiritu omnia gerimus?
"I asked Titus, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you?" Did he take anything from you to bring to me? "Did we not walk in the same spirit? Not in the same steps?" Do we not do everything in one spirit?
2 Cor 12:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Titus and Paul acted in one honest spirit.
- Souter brackets aliquid (kept for the sense), "to me," -ne twice, and in; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread brackets; OCR slip; words run together in OCR): iUofratrem → illo fratrem; Non\ne\ → Non[ne].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301
[Iterum] putatis quod excusemus nos aput uos. Non, sicut superius dixi, haec dicimus, ut uobis placeamus, sed ne nobis, cum uenerimus, necesse sit acrius uindicare. Coram deo in Christo loquimur. Quern fallere inpossibile est. Omnia autem , carissimi , propter uestram aedificationem :
"Do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you?" No; as I said above, we say these things not to please you, but lest, when we come, it be necessary for us to punish more sharply. "We speak before God in Christ." Whom it is impossible to deceive. "But all things, beloved, are for your edification:"
2 Cor 12:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul writes to prevent the need for sharp punishment.
- Souter brackets Iterum; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): dbri, haec dicimue → dixi, haec dicimus; (tedificationem → aedificationem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301–302
timeo autem ne forte, cum uenero, non quales uolo inueniam uos, et ego inueniar a uobis qualem non uultis. Si uos non inuenero iustos, [et] ego a uobis seuerus inueniar. blandimentis minae iunguntur. Ne forte sint inter uos contentiones, aemulationes, animositates , dissensiones, detractiones, susurrationes, [ inflationes ,] seditiones. Si propter haec se dicebat seuerissime uindicare, quid faceret, si nostris temporibus adueniret, quibus ad conparationem aliorum criminum ista nec putantur esse peccata?
"For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish." If I do not find you righteous, I will be found severe by you. Threats are joined to coaxing. "Lest perhaps there be among you strifes, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, seditions." If he said he would punish these things most severely, what would he do if he came in our times, in which, compared with other crimes, these are not even thought to be sins?
2 Cor 12:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul threatens to punish strife and envy, sins that Pelagius's own age ignores.
- Souter brackets et and inflationes ("swellings"); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; hyphen rejoined): quotes → quales; uuUis → uultis; susurra- tiones → susurrationes; [ injlationes ,] → [ inflationes ,].
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301–302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302
Ne iterum, cum uenero, humiliet me deus apud uos e[t] lugeam mukos ex his qui ante peccauerunt et non egerunt poenitentiam. Contra Nouatianos paenitentiae neg[u]atores: si[c] enim luget paenitentiam non agentes, utique de agentibus gaudet. Super quae gesserunt [et] fornicationem [et] inpudicitiam [quam gesserunt ]. Inpudicitia grauior est fornicatione, quasi monstruosa turpitudo, sicut [et] ille fecit, qui uxorem patris accepit.
"Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you, and I mourn many of those who sinned before and did not do penance." Against the Novatians, deniers of penance: for if he mourns those who do not do penance, he surely rejoices over those who do. "For the sexual immorality and impurity which they committed." Impurity is graver than sexual immorality, as it were a monstrous shamefulness, such as he committed who took his father's wife.
2 Cor 12:21 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 5:1 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul mourns the impenitent, which refutes the Novatians' denial of penance.
- "Penance" renders paenitentia here, of the church's discipline. Souter brackets the t of et, letters of negatores and sic, et twice, and "which they committed"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip; OCR slips): el non → et non; [et]fomieationem → [et] fornicationem; \quam gesserunt ] → [quam gesserunt ].
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 13
13.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302
[Ecce] tertio hoc uenio ad uos: in ore duorum testium uel trium stabit omne uerbum . Secundum legem: contra Manichaeos.
"This third time I am coming to you: by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word will stand." According to the law: against the Manichaeans.
2 Cor 13:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 19:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul cites the law's rule of witnesses, against the Manichaeans.
- Souter brackets Ecce; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ud trium → uel trium.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302
Praedixi [enim] et praedico , ut praesens secundo, et [nunc] absens his qui ante peccauerunt et ceteris omnibus, quoniam si uenero iterum non parcam. Qui post documenta priorum peccauerint, nec ipsis parcam, quia antecedentium ruina sequentes debet face[re] cautiores.
"I said before and I say beforehand, as when present the second time, and absent, to those who sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare." Those who sinned after the lessons of the earlier ones I will not spare either, because the ruin of those who went before ought to make those who follow more careful.
2 Cor 13:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul will not spare those who sin after earlier warnings.
- Souter brackets enim, nunc, and -re in facere; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): vl praesens → ut praesens.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302–303
An experimentum eius quaeritis qui in me loquitur , Christi? An in me Christum temptatis, utrum in uobis ualeat uindicare? Qui in uo[bi]s non infirmatur, sed potens est in uobis. Quanto magis in nobis capacioribus [sui] potest dici, quem non infirmum, sed potentem esse nec ipsi nescitis!
"Do you seek proof of Christ who speaks in me?" Do you test Christ in me, whether he can punish among you? "Who is not weak toward you, but is mighty among you." How much more can it be said in us, who are more capable, that he is not weak but mighty, as you yourselves are not unaware!
2 Cor 13:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ speaks and acts powerfully through Paul.
- Souter brackets -bi- in uobis and sui; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread bracket; OCR slip): uo\bi]s → uo[bi]s; quern → quem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302–303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303
Nam [et] si crucifixus est ex infirmitate [nostra], sed uiuit ex uirtute dei . Quod cruci fixus est nostrae est infirmitatis, quod uiuit suae uirtutis. Etenim nos infirmi sumus in illo, sed uiuimus in ipso ex uirtute dei in uobis . Siue: Si nos quasi infirmos prouocaueritis, inuenietis nos uiuere cum Christo in uirtute dei, cum in uos uindicare coeperimus. sed et nos in praesenti quidem infirmamur, sed in futuro cum illo, non in nostra, sed dei uirtute uiuemus. Uosmet ipsos temptate, si estis in fide; ipsi uos probate. Si in fide estis, ex uobis nos cognoscite, date sententiam in peccantem, et uidete si non statim cum uestro uerbo uindicta procedit. Aut non cognoscitis uos [ipsos], qu[on]ia[m] Christus Iesus in uobis est? nisi forte reprobi estis. Aut nescitis quia Christus in uobis est dei uirtus, si tamen uos minime reprobauit.
"For although he was crucified out of weakness, yet he lives by the power of God." That he was crucified belongs to our weakness; that he lives, to his power. "For we too are weak in him, but we live with him by the power of God toward you." Or: if you provoke us as weak, you will find us living with Christ in the power of God when we begin to punish among you. But we too are weak in the present; in the future, however, we will live with him, not by our own power but by God's. "Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves." If you are in the faith, know us from yourselves: pass sentence on a sinner, and see whether punishment does not follow at once upon your word. "Or do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? Unless perhaps you are reprobate." Or do you not know that Christ, the power of God, is in you, provided he has not rejected you?
2 Cor 13:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 13:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ crucified in weakness lives by God's power, and his power is in the faithful.
- The section covers 2 Cor 13:4–5. Souter brackets et, nostra ("our" weakness), ipsos, and letters of quoniam; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; line number leaked from the page; OCR slips): [el] → [et]; crudfixus est ex injirmitate → crucifixus est ex infirmitate; sumits in iUo → sumus in illo; 6 Uosmel ipsos template → Uosmet ipsos temptate.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303
Spero autem quod cognoscetis quia nos non sumus reprobi. Spero uos sensuros quo modo uos uideo conuersari.
"But I hope that you will know that we are not reprobate." I hope you will perceive it from the way I see you living.
2 Cor 13:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul trusts the Corinthians will see he is approved.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (word split in OCR): cognos cetis → cognoscetis.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303–304
Oramus autem deum ut nihil mali faciatis, non ut nos probati [ap]pareamus, sed ut uos quod bonum est faciatis , nos autem ut reprobi simus. Si enim mali aliquid feceritis, nos uindicando [ap]parebimus probati, sed malumus nos reprobos uideri, tantum ut uos quod bonum est faciatis.
"But we pray God that you do nothing evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do what is good, though we be as reprobate." For if you did anything evil, we would appear approved by punishing it; but we prefer to seem reprobate, provided that you do what is good.
2 Cor 13:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul prefers to seem powerless rather than have to punish.
- Souter brackets ap- in appareamus and apparebimus; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): modi facialis → mali faciatis; bonum est facialis → bonum est faciatis.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303–304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304
Non enim possumus aduersus ueritatem aliquid, sed pro ueritate. Innocenti enim nostra sententia obesse non poterit nisi ei qui pro certo peccauerit.
"For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth." Our sentence cannot harm the innocent, but only him who has certainly sinned.
2 Cor 13:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Apostolic judgment harms only the guilty.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR stray mark): 'enim → enim; enirn → enim.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304
Gaudemus autem cum nos infirmamur. Gaudemus si non sit necesse ut nostra uirtus appareat, sicut Petri apparuit in Sa[p]phyra et Anania. Uos autem fortes estis: hoc [enim] et oramus , uestram consummationem. [Ut uos] perfecti sitis atque potentes.
"For we rejoice when we are weak." We rejoice if it is not necessary for our power to appear, as Peter's appeared in Sapphira and Ananias. "But you are strong: this too we pray for, your perfection." That you may be perfect and strong.
2 Cor 13:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 5:5 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 5:10 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul is glad not to need to use punitive power, as Peter did with Ananias.
- Souter brackets the p of Sapphyra, enim, and "That you"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; word split in OCR): injirmamur → infirmamur; consumma tionem → consummationem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304–305
Ideo hoc absens scribo , ut non praesens durius agam. Si non correxeritis, durius adhuc acturus sum quam scribendo denuntio. Secundum potestatem quam dedit dominus nobis in aedificationem. Ut et uos de cetero emendetis et alii peccare formident. Et non in destructionem. Ad quam sibi pseudo-apostoli potestatem usurpant. De cetero, fratres , [gaudete et] perfecti estote , [et] consolamini . Notandum quod omni ecclesiae scribens dicit eos omnes debere esse perfectos, et quod laicos iubet se inuicem exhortari. Id ipsum sapite, pacem habete , et deus pacis et dilectionis erit in uobis. Alioquin auctor dissensionis et odii e contrario erit uobiscum, et uos cum illo permanebitis in aetemum, si ille hic uobiscum permanserit semper.
"Therefore I write these things while absent, so that when present I may not act more harshly." If you do not correct yourselves, I will act still more harshly than I announce in writing. "According to the power which the Lord gave us for edification." So that you may amend for the future and others may be afraid to sin. "And not for destruction." For which the false apostles usurp power for themselves. "Finally, brothers, be perfect, be comforted." It is to be noted that, writing to the whole church, he says that they all ought to be perfect, and he commands lay people to exhort one another. "Be of the same mind, have peace, and the God of peace and love will be with you." Otherwise the author of dissension and hatred will be with you instead, and you will remain with him forever, if he remains with you here always.
2 Cor 13:10 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 13:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul writes to avoid harshness and calls the whole church to be perfect and at peace.
- The section covers 2 Cor 13:10–11. Pelagius notes that all the faithful, not only some, are told to be perfect. Souter brackets "rejoice and" and et; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; verse number 11 leaked from the page; OCR slip; word split in OCR): ogam → agam; ll De ceteroy fratres → De cetero, fratres; perfecti estate , → perfecti estote ,; exhort ari → exhortari; sopite → sapite; pads → pacis; hie → hic.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304–305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305
[Salutate inuicem in o[s]culo sancto:] salutant uos sancti omnes . Non honorati aut diuites.
"All the saints greet you." Not the honored or the rich.
2 Cor 13:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The saints, not the great, send greetings.
- Souter brackets the lemma "Greet one another with a holy kiss"; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together in OCR; OCR slip): inuicemin o[$]culo → inuicem in o[s]culo; sahttant → salutant.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305
Gratia domini nostri Iesu Christi et caritas dei et communicatio sancti spiritus. Contra Arrianos, qui [i]deo patrem maiorem esse contendunt, quia plerumque pri[m]us nominat[ur] in ordine. Cum omnibus uobis . [amen.] Sicut est in aliquantis. [Siue: Quo[d] omnes in his bonis uelit esse perfectos]. AD CORINTHIOS SECVNDA EXPLICIT
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit." Against the Arians, who contend that the Father is greater because he is usually named first in order. "Be with you all." As it is with some. End of the Second to the Corinthians.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
2 Cor 13:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The blessing names the Son first, against the Arian argument from order.
- Souter brackets the i of ideo, letters of primus nominatur, amen, and "Or: that he wishes all to be perfect in these goods"; left out. The last words are the manuscript's closing title.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray number from the page; stray letter from the page): Axrianos, 5 qui → Arrianos, qui; EXPLICIT n → EXPLICIT.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.