By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
See the candor of the servant. He wants nothing to be his own but everything to be his master’s. And indeed it was the Spirit who gave him this freedom…. Paul says: “We have not achieved the apostleship by ourselves.” It was not by much labor and toil that we were given this dignity, but we received grace, and the successful result is a part of the heavenly gift…. It was the apostles’ duty to go about and preach, but conviction belonged to God, who worked in them.
