2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.”
I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing — Paul's *self-assessment* is *paradoxical*: he is *egó eimi oudén*, nothing. Yet *simultaneously*, he is *not inferior* to the false apostles. *Self-deprecation* and *apostolic authority* coexist. His *nothingness* is his *strength*.
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