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Title: Il 'discorso del pazzo' o periautologia immoderata?
Subtitle: Analisi retorico-letteraria di 2 Cor 11,1-12,18
Author(s): PITTA, Antonio
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 87    Issue: 4   Date: 2006   
Pages: 493-510
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.87.4.3189064

Abstract :
Forced to defend himself from the slanders spread by his adversaries in Corinth Paul accepts in 2 Cor 11,1-12,18 their challenge and draws a comparison situated on the razor’s edge of the periautologia or of self-praise. More than being a fool’s speech his discourse is an immoderate one and it stands up only because Paul’s competitors lack measure and moderation. The main thesis of the section (2 Cor 11,5-6) announces an apology of Paul’s superiority which will be proved not by means of verbose or empty elocution but by the facts: gratuity in evangelization, ministerial relationships with Christ, visions and revelations, all of them balanced by means of a paradoxical boasting in one’s own weakness.

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