SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:19
Porque de buena gana toleris los locos, siendo vosotros sabios;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 11:19
Verse 19. Ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.] A very fine irony. Ye are so profoundly wise as to be able to discern that I am a fool. Well, it would be dishonourable to you as wise men to fall out with a fool; you will therefore gladly bear with his impertinence and foolishness because of your own profound wisdom.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. For ye suffer fools gladly , etc..] They bore with the false apostles, who were fools; were continually proclaiming their folly, boasting of themselves, ascribing that to themselves which did not belong to them, and were puffed up by their fleshly minds; they indulged these men in their folly, and that with pleasure and delight; they not only winked at it, and overlooked it, but were pleased with it: seeing ye yourselves are wise; acting like men who count themselves wise, and keep fools for their pleasure, diversion, and sport. These words may be considered either as spoken seriously by the apostle, and as wondering that they should suffer such fools to go on in their vain boasts, and especially with pleasure; since they were men of wisdom, who were otherwise taught of God, and by the word; they had been made wise unto salvation, and were enriched in all utterance, and in all knowledge; they had been instructed by the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, and in the mysteries of his Gospel; and therefore it was surprising that they could bear with such vain and foolish men, and especially with delight; for though it is the part of a wise man to bear with fools, yet not with pleasure; so that this carries in it a tacit reproof to them: or else the last clause may be considered as spoken ironically, and as a severe jibe upon their folly for tolerating such a parcel of fools among them; as if he should say, you show yourselves to be men of wisdom, as you would be thought to be; you act the wise part, do not you, in suffering such empty headed men to converse with you, and delight in their vain talk and conversation? however, the whole furnishes out an argument for the apostle, and which he means to improve; that if they could suffer and bear with such fools, and so many of them, and that gladly, then they might and ought to bear a little with him in his folly, which is what he entreats of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 mus 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 me bring their followers into bondage, and how they take from them an insult them.
Greek Textus Receptus
ηδεως 2234 ADV γαρ 1063 CONJ ανεχεσθε 430 5736 V-PNI-2P των 3588 T-GPM αφρονων 878 A-GPM φρονιμοι 5429 A-NPM οντες 5607 5752 V-PXP-NPM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:19 {Gladly} (hedews). Irony again. Cf. kalos in #11:4 (#Mr 7:9). So as to phronimoi ontes (being wise).
