'Fool' in the Bible
I will say it again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, then treat me like a fool so that I can also boast a little.
When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.
I am ashamed to admit it, but we have been too weak for that. Whatever anyone else dares to claim I am talking like a fool I can claim it, too.
However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.
I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.