From b96a45af8cc6b5ad3427ce1619f2448e040185b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PaulDeYoung Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 19:27:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update '2co/12/11.md' --- 2co/12/11.md | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/2co/12/11.md b/2co/12/11.md index b0ced1212c..7582efabfa 100644 --- a/2co/12/11.md +++ b/2co/12/11.md @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@ -# Connecting Statement: - -To strengthen them, Paul reminds the believers in Corinth of the true signs of an apostle and of his humility while before them. - # I have become a fool -"I am acting like 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 @@ -12,7 +8,7 @@ To strengthen them, Paul reminds the believers in Corinth of the true signs of a # I should have been praised by you -This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "it is praise that you should have given me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) +"it is praise that you should have given me" # praised @@ -20,9 +16,9 @@ This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "it is praise that you # For I was not at all inferior to -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/jit/figs-litotes]]) +"For I am just as good as" # super-apostles -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 11:5](../11/05.md). Alternate translation: "those teachers whom some think are better than anyone else" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-irony]]) +"those teachers whom some think are better than anyone else" (2 Corinthians 11:5).