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I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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Verse 11–13. Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the humility of Saint Paul, when forced to speak his own praises.—The signs and marks of my apostleship … on you, by your conversion, especially being accompanied by wonders and miracles.—Pardon me this injury. A reproach by irony, against such as seemed to value him less, because he lived in poverty, and took nothing of them. Witham.
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