translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.


text: Paul is referring to humbling himself to the point of doing manual labor to support himself.


text: That is, serve them free of charge (cf. the end of v. 7 ).


text: Many is a reference to Paul’s opponents.


text: It seems best, in context, to see the statement we were too weak for that as a parenthetical and ironic comment by Paul on his physical condition (weakness or sickness) while he was with the Corinthians (cf. 2 Cor 12:7-10 ; Gal 4:15 ).


text: Beaten with a rod refers to the Roman punishment of admonitio according to BDAG 902 s.v. ῥαβδίζω . Acts 16:22 describes one of these occasions in Philippi; in this case it was administered by the city magistrates, who had wide powers in a military colony.


text: Received a stoning. See Acts 14:19 , where this incident is described.


text: Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.