For whether we be beside ourselves - As they affirm we are, because we expose ourselves to so many sufferings, and even to the danger of imprisonment and death, by persevering in our work of preaching the gospel. What people called his “sober-mindedness”-his shrewd common sense, his sagacity-that he practised not for himself, but for his disciples, to win them to Christ, remove difficulties, strengthen them in the faith.īenson Commentary 2 Corinthians 5:13-15. What people called his “madness”-the ecstasy of adoration, the speaking with tongues ( 1Corinthians 14:18-23)-that lay between himself and God, and a stranger might not intermeddle with it. Agrippa’s words in Acts 26:24, and Note there.) Others, or, perhaps, the same persons, pointed to his tact, becoming all things to all men, perhaps even insinuated that he was making money by his work ( 2Corinthians 9:12 2Corinthians 12:10): “he was shrewd enough when it served his turn.” He answers accordingly both the taunts. Some there were at Corinth who spoke of his visions and revelations, his speaking with tongues as in ecstasy, his prophecies of future judgment, as so many signs of madness. This also had been said of him, and the intense sensitiveness of his nature made him wince under it.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) For whether we be beside ourselves.-The recollection of one sneer leads on to another.
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