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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-As Paul continues to confirm his apostleship, he states specific things that have happened to him since he became a believer.
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 # Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as though I were insane.) I am more
 
-Paul is asking questions the Corinthians might be asking and then answering them to emphasize that he is as much a Jew as the super-apostles are. You should keep the question-and-answer form if possible. Alternate translation: "They say they are servants of Christ—I speak as though I were insane—but I am more" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
+Paul is asking questions the Corinthians might be asking and then answering them to emphasize that he is as much a Jew as the super-apostles are. You should keep the question-and-answer form if possible. Paul does not believe these false teachers actually serve Christ, only that they pretend to do so. Alternate translation: "They say they are servants of Christ—I speak as though I were insane—but I am more" 
 
 # as though I were insane
 
@@ -12,7 +8,7 @@ Paul is asking questions the Corinthians might be asking and then answering them
 
 # I am more
 
-You can make clear the understood information. Alternate translation: "I am more a servant of Christ than they are" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])
+"I am more a servant of Christ than they are" 
 
 # in harder labor
 
@@ -24,7 +20,7 @@ You can make clear the understood information. Alternate translation: "I am more
 
 # in beatings beyond measure, in facing
 
-This is an idiom, and is exaggerated to emphasize that he had been beaten many, many times. Alternate translation: "I have been beaten very many times, and I have faced" or "I have been beaten too many times to bother counting, and I have faced" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
+"I have been beaten very many times, and I have faced" or "I have been beaten too many times to bother counting, and I have faced" 
 
 # in facing many deadly dangers