“... In the letters of Paul to the Corinthians we must also be aware that Paul is confronting himself with a Graeco-Roman audience. There are, as previously mentioned, peristasis catalogues in 1 Corinthians 4.10-13; 2 Corinthians 4.8-9; 6.4-10; 11.23-33 and 12.10. The first question must be whether Paul in these catalogues attached himself to the earthly Jesus, whose apostle he is. At first let me draw attention to some parallels between the peristasis catalogues and the words of Jesus ... When we arrive at the last peristasis catalogue in 11.23-33, it is evident that Paul presents himself against the background of an Old Testament notion. But that is not the passio-justi theme. Rather, it is the notion of boasting. The catalogue may be interpreted on the basis of the greater context 2 Corinthians 10-13, where in 10.17 a quotation is taken from Jeremiah 9.23 about boasting. This exact quotation dominates the entire section where Paul, in a kind of a ‘fool speech’, settles with the so-called ‘head-apostles’ (11.13; 12.11). They boast of their Jewish descendancy (11.22), whereas Paul boasts of his same Jewish descendancy together with his many adversities and sufferings, to which he as a Jew is exposed from the side of his compatriots ...”