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Tim Maas
I would say that an undercurrent of defensiveness exists not just in the cited passage, but in multiple locations in Paul's writings, arising from his continual awareness that he had been a former persecutor of Christians, leading him to make similarly frequent justifications of his apostolic credentials.
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