<p>11:22 <em>Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I</em>- Clearly the false teachers were Jews, confirming that the 'Satan' referred to in :14 is some kind of personification of the entire Jewish resistance to Paul's work. Paul could have argued on a more spiritual level, as he does in Romans and Galatians, that ethnic descent is irrelevant. But here he takes a more human approach, arguing with them on the same terms of reference which they use.</p>