that is, to go by you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on to Judea.

For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.

obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death,

as the Scripture says: "He has generously given to the poor; His deeds of charity go on forever."

But I shall never go too far in my boasting; no, I shall stay within the limits of the sphere which God apportioned me, so as to reach even you.

I have to keep on boasting. There is no good to be gotten from it, but I will go on to visions and revelations which the Lord has given me.

Three times I begged the Lord about this to make it go away and leave me,

I actually begged Titus to go, and sent the well-known brother with him. Titus did not make any money out of you, did he? Did not he and I act in the same spirit, and take the very same steps?