11:2 For I am jealous over you with {a} godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may {b} present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
(a) He speaks as one who woos them, but yet as one that seeks them not for himself, but for God.
(b) To marry you together.
11:2 I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. His course was induced because of his jealousy for them, not in behalf of himself, but of Christ. He had espoused them to Christ, the Bridegroom of whom the church is the bride (Re 21:2). He has a fear lest this bride may be led astray.
11:2 For - The cause of his seeming folly is expressed in this and the following verse ; the cause why they should bear with him, 2Cor 11:4.
11:1-4 The apostle desired to preserve the Corinthians from being corrupted by the false apostles. There is but one Jesus, one Spirit, and one gospel, to be preached to them, and received by them; and why should any be prejudiced, by the devices of an adversary, against him who first taught them in faith? They should not listen to men, who, without cause, would draw them away from those who were the means of their conversion.
