Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Paul sets forth his own lineage as Hebrew, Israelite, and seed of Abraham, showing that he possessed the very ancestral credentials boasted by those who opposed him. Ancestry therefore provided no valid ground for condemning him, since his heritage matched theirs. The teaching of Second Corinthians 11 is that measuring by human standards brings grave error whenever people assume a work that God has not assigned but condemns.
Paul sets forth his own lineage as Hebrew, Israelite, and seed of Abraham, showing that he possessed the very ancestral credentials boasted by those who opposed him. Ancestry therefore provided no valid ground for condemning him, since his heritage matched theirs. The teaching of Second Corinthians 11 is that measuring by human standards brings grave error whenever people assume a work that God has not assigned but condemns.