2 Corinthians 12:1
If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed), but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si gloriari oportet (non expedit quidem), veniam autem ad visiones et revelationes Domini.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Καυχᾶσθαι δεῖ· οὐ συμφέρον μέν, ἐλεύσομαι δὲ εἰς ὀπτασίας καὶ ἀποκαλύψεις κυρίου.
Haydock's commentary
If I must glory. St. Paul in the whole of this discourse shews the repugnance he had of speaking in his own praise, and that if he did it, it was only through constraint, and for the advantage of the Corinthians; as also to defend himself from his calumniators. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Pseudo-Tertullian Appendix, Book III
When rapt into the heavens, behold: and sent
St John Chrysostom Homilies on Second Corinthians, Homily XXVI
2 Cor. xii. 1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory, [for] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. What is this? Doth he who has spoken such great things say, [It is not expedient] “doubtless to glory?” as if he had said nothing? No; not as if he had said nothing: but because he is going to pass to another species of boasting, which is not intended indeed by so great a reward, but which to the many (though not to careful examiners) seems to set him off in brighter colors, he says, “It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory.” For truly the great grounds of boasting were those which he had recounted, those of his trials; he has however other things also to tell of, such as concern the revelations, the unspeakable mysteries. …