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For I know your readiness of mind, of which I boast to the Macedonians myself, saying that Achaia was prepared a year ago, and your zeal has incited many.

Now, I have sent the brothers, lest our boasting over you should be in vain in this matter, that you (as I have said) be ready.

Or else perhaps the Macedonians might come with me and find you unprepared, so that we (and not you) should be ashamed by my constant boasting.

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For I know your eagerness to help,(A) and I have been boasting(B) about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year(C) you in Achaia(D) were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. But I am sending the brothers(E) in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.(F) For if any Macedonians(G) come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.

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