I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Although I am nothing. These words are a demonstration of the humility of St. Paul, when forced to speak his own praises.
The signs and marks of my apostleship. On you, by your conversion, especially being accompanied by wonders and miracles.
Pardon me this injury. A reproach by irony, against such as seemed to value him less, because he lived in poverty, and took nothing of them. (Witham)