<p>12:5- see on 1 Cor. 8:9.</p><p><i>On behalf of such a one will I boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, save in my weaknesses- </i>This is as stated in 11:30. Paul is inverting all human wisdom and worldviews here by saying that greatness and qualification is in weakness and not human strength. Earlier Paul has reminded them that he first preached the Gospel to them in &quot;weakness&quot; (1 Cor. 2:3 s.w.). He seems to have in view physical frailty of health, which would encourage the view that the thorn in the flesh which we will now read of was some physical weakness.</p>