2 Corinthians 11:31

“The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc..] These words are in the form of an oath, and are a solemn appeal to God, that knows all things, for the truth of the whole that he had declared in the foregoing verses, and of the remarkable deliverance related in the following. “God”, says he, who is the searcher of hearts, and an omniscient being, to whom all things are open and manifest, knoweth that I lie not; in anyone single instance he had mentioned, nor in what he was about to declare; which because it was a fact done by a stratagem, and a good while ago, and which was not known to the Corinthians, and of which perhaps at that time he could not produce any witnesses; therefore calls…”

“This solemn asseveration refers to what follows. The persecution at Damascus was one of the first and greatest, and having no human witness of it to adduce to the Corinthians, as being a fact that happened long before and was known to few, he appeals to God for its truth. Luke (Act 9:25) afterwards recorded it (compare Gal 1:20), [BENGEL]. It may ALSO refer to the revelation in Co2 12:1, standing in beautiful contrast to his humiliating escape from Damascus.”

“The God and Father ... - Paul was accustomed to make solemn appeals to God for the truth of what he said, especially when it was likely to be called in question; see 2 Corinthians 11:10; compare Romans 9:1. The solemn appeal which he here makes to God is made in view of what he had just said of his sufferings, not of what follows - for there was nothing in the occurrence at Damascus that demanded so solemn an appeal to God. The reason of this asseveration is probably that the transactions to which he had referred were known to but few, and perhaps not all of them to even his best friends; that his trials and calamities had been so numerous and extraordinary that his enemies would say that…”

“God: Co2 1:3, Co2 1:23; Joh 10:30, Joh 20:17; Rom 1:9, Rom 9:1; Eph 1:3, Eph 3:14; Gal 1:2, Gal 1:3; Col 1:3; Th1 2:5; Pe1 1:3 which: Neh 9:5; Psa 41:13; Rom 1:25, Rom 9:5; Ti1 1:11, Ti1 1:17, Ti1 6:16 knoweth: Co2 11:10 2 Corinthians 11:32”