# I have become a fool "I am acting like a fool". To strengthen them, Paul reminds the believers in Corinth of the true signs of an apostle and of his humility while before them. # You forced me to this "You forced me to talk this way" # I should have been praised by you "it is praise that you should have given me" # praised "commended" # For I was not at all inferior to "For I am just as good as" # super-apostles "those teachers whom some think are better than anyone else" (2 Corinthians 11:5).