"If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness." In yesterday’s first reading, we were presented us with a very agitated Paul. It is this same Paul whom we meet in today’s reading. His source of agitation is those whom he refers to as  super apostles(vs. 5) . From yesterday’s reading, we gather that these so-called  super apostles were Paul’s fellow “evangelizers” who were traversing the very churches where Paul had preached. Their intention, Paul tells us, was to " upgrade," so to speak, what Paul had done. Because of Paul’s  methodology, these super apostles believed that the communities evangelized by Paul were not fully evangelized. As would be expected, Paul was not amused at all. He saw no need of this since he deemed himself very much an able apostle just as they were. Moreover, if it came to credentials (by credentials he meant the sufferings he had undergone for the sake of Christ), none of them came close to having the kind of credentials that he had. However, Paul did not want to take this route since it amounted to boasting. From his understanding of this business in which they were involved, there shouldn’t be any boasting at all. One can only boast of what he/she owns or of his/her achievements. But according to Paul, neither the  super apostles nor himself had anything for which to boast. Paul himself could not boast of the churches he had put up because they were not his. The Churches belong to the Lord. He could not boast of the communities which he had evangelized because he preached to them through the generosity and kindness of others. He could not even boast of his ethnicity. He was born into it. Anything he had been able to do was courtesy of someone else. This was his ground of not wanting to take any credit for the things the Lord had done through him. How he wished the  super apostles would be able to do the same.