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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul reminds the believers in Corinth of the true signs of an apostle and of his humility before them to strengthen them.
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# I have become a fool
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"I am acting like a fool"
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# You forced me to this
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"You forced me to talk this way"
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# I should have been praised by you
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "it is praise that you should have given me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# praised
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Possible meanings are 1) "praise" ([2 Corinthians 3:1](../03/01.md)) or 2) "recommend" ([2 Corinthians 4:2](../04/02.md)).
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# For I was not at all inferior to
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By using the negative form, Paul is saying strongly that those Corinthians who think that he is inferior are wrong. Alternate translation: "For I am just as good as" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-litotes]])
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# super-apostles
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Paul uses irony here to show that those teachers are less important then people say they are. See how this is translated in [2 Corinthians 11:05](../11/05.md). Alternate translation: "those teachers whom some think are better than anyone else" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
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