Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:9

9 For I am the least of all the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God .

The least not in dignity, or gifts, or labours, (he tells us, that he had laboured more than all, he had made the Gospel to abound from Ierusalem to Illyricum; he hath in this Epistle let us know, that he spake with Tongues more than they all;) but deserving the least esteem, (as he afterward expoundeth himself) telling us, That he was not worthy of the Name of an Apostle. He gives the reason, Because he had before been a Persecutor of the Church of God, the History of which we have Acts 9.1, 2, 3.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 1.13. [illegible: 1 word] 1.13.