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Psalm 96:1-9

Psalm 96^[a]

God of the Universe

I

¹Sing to the Lord a new song;^(A)
    sing to the Lord, all the earth.
²Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
    proclaim his salvation day after day.
³Tell his glory among the nations;
    among all peoples, his marvelous deeds.^(B)

II

⁴^[b]For great is the Lord and highly to be praised,
    to be feared above all gods.^(C)
⁵For the gods of the nations are idols,
    but the Lord made the heavens.^(D)
⁶Splendor and power go before him;
    power and grandeur are in his holy place.

III

⁷Give to the Lord, you families of nations,
    give to the Lord glory and might;
⁸    give to the Lord the glory due his name!^(E)
Bring gifts and enter his courts;
⁹    bow down to the Lord, splendid in holiness.
Tremble before him, all the earth;

1 Kings 8:14-21

¹⁴The king turned and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly of Israel stood. ¹⁵He said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth spoke a promise to David my father and by his hand fulfilled it, saying: ¹⁶^(A)Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any tribe of Israel for the building of a house, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel. ¹⁷When David my father wished to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, ¹⁸the Lord said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well. ¹⁹But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins; he shall build the house for my name. ²⁰Now the Lord has fulfilled the word he spoke: I have succeeded David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord has spoken, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ²¹I have provided there a place for the ark in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

2 Corinthians 11:1-6

Chapter 11

Preaching Without Charge.^[a] ¹If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me!^[b] Please put up with me.^(A) ²^[c]For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.^(B) ³But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve^[d] by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.^(C) ⁴For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus^[e] than the one we preached,^(D) or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough. ⁵^[f]^(E)For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “superapostles.” ⁶Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge;^(F) in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.^[g]

Footnotes

11:1–15 Although these verses continue to reveal information about Paul’s opponents and the differences he perceives between them and himself, 2 Cor 11:1 signals a turn in Paul’s thought. This section constitutes a prologue to the boasting that he will undertake in 2 Cor 11:16–12:10, and it bears remarkable similarities to the section that follows the central boast, 2 Cor 12:11–18.
11:1 Put up with a little foolishness from me: this verse indicates more clearly than the general statement of intent in 2 Cor 10:13 the nature of the project Paul is about to undertake. He alludes ironically to the Corinthians’ toleration for others. Foolishness: Paul qualifies his project as folly from beginning to end; see note on 2 Cor 11:16–12:10.
11:2 Paul gives us a sudden glimpse of the theological values that are at stake. The jealousy of God: the perspective is that of the covenant, described in imagery of love and marriage, as in the prophets; cf. 1 Cor 10:22. I betrothed you: Paul, like a father (cf. 2 Cor 12:14), betroths the community to Christ as his bride (cf. Eph 5:21–33) and will present her to him at his second coming. Cf. Mt 25:1–13 and the nuptial imagery in Rev 21.
11:3 As the serpent deceived Eve: before Christ can return for the community Paul fears a repetition of the primal drama of seduction. Corruption of minds is satanic activity (see 2 Cor 2:11; 4:4). Satanic imagery recurs in 2 Cor 11:13–15, 20; 12:7b, 16–17; see notes on these passages.
11:4 Preaches another Jesus: the danger is specified, and Paul’s opponents are identified with the cunning serpent. The battle for minds has to do with the understanding of Jesus, the Spirit, the gospel; the Corinthians have flirted with another understanding than the one that Paul handed on to them as traditional and normative.
11:5 These “superapostles”: this term, employed again in 2 Cor 12:11b, designates the opponents of whom Paul has spoken in 2 Cor 10 and again in 2 Cor 11:4. They appear to be intruders at Corinth. Their preaching is marked at least by a different emphasis and style, and they do not hesitate to accept support from the community. Perhaps these itinerants appeal to the authority of church leaders in Jerusalem and even carry letters of recommendation from them. But it is not those distant leaders whom Paul is attacking here. The intruders are “superapostles” not in the sense of the “pillars” at Jerusalem (Gal 2), but in their own estimation. They consider themselves superior to Paul as apostles and ministers of Christ, and they are obviously enjoying some success among the Corinthians. Paul rejects their claim to be apostles in any superlative sense (hyperlian), judging them bluntly as “false apostles,” ministers of Satan masquerading as apostles of Christ (2 Cor 11:13–15). On the contrary, he himself will claim to be a superminister of Christ (hyper egō, 2 Cor 11:23).
11:6 Apparently found deficient in both rhetorical ability (cf. 2 Cor 10:10) and knowledge (cf. 2 Cor 10:5), Paul concedes the former charge but not the latter. In every way: in all their contacts with him revelation has been taking place. Paul, through whom God reveals the knowledge of himself (2 Cor 2:14), and in whom the death and life of Jesus are revealed (2 Cor 4:10–11; cf. 2 Cor 6:4), also demonstrates his own role as the bearer of true knowledge. Cf. 1 Cor 1:18–2:16.

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