I do not think I am in the least inferior to those 'super-apostles' — the *hyperlaian apostoloi*, super-apostles (Paul's *ironic* designation), claim *preeminence*. Paul denies *hysteréō*, being behind/inferior, to them. Yet his *comparison* is itself *ironic*: he will prove his superiority not through *pneuma*, spirit-talk, or *gnōsis*, esoteric knowledge, but through *pathē*, sufferings.

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