<p>11:17- see on 1 Cor. 7:11.</p><p><em>What I will now speak in this confidence of boasting, I speak not after the Lord but as in foolishness</em>- &quot;After the Lord&quot; is a reference to his opening statement in this section that he is now going to reason with them according to the gentle humility of Christ (10:1). He is not saying that this record of his words is not Divinely inspired. This is yet further evidence that 2 Corinthians is an inspired record of a flow of consciousness, whereby Paul wrote down what he thought and felt at the time. This explains the apparent tensions- in this case, between approaching them &quot;after the Lord&quot; Jesus, and yet now departing from His meekness and gentleness in order by all means to persuade them on the terms of comparison which they had set up.</p>