2 CORINTHIANS 11:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.”
In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool — Paul *explicitly disavows* this *boasting* (*kaúchēsis*) as *not from the kyrios*, the Lord. It is *sarkikē*, carnal, pragmatism: since the Corinthians tolerate *fools*, Paul will speak *en hupalousei*, with foolish pretense. Yet the *irony* is *cutting*.
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