“Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:”
But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be — Paul's *kaúchēsis*, boasting, commits him to honesty; the Corinthians' fulfillment validates apostolic authority. A false boast would undermine the gospel itself. Truth-telling and grace interpenetrate.
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