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Document Details : 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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