11:16 I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. 1 But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence 2 I do not say the way the Lord would. 3 Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
1 tn Or “am foolish.”
2 tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).
3 tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”