That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong — Paul's *paradox* is *absolutely radical*: he *eudokeó*, takes pleasure in, *astheneia*, weakness; *hybris*, insults; *stenochōría*, hardships; *diōgmos*, persecutions; *anankē*, difficulties. The *inversion* is *complete*: *weakness* becomes *isthýs*, strength, because Christ's *power* indwells the weak vessel.

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