Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 15:9

"For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God." — 1 Corinthians 15:9 (ASV)

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

"God has forgiven me," said a good man once, "but I shall never forgive myself." So was it with the apostle Paul; he knew that God had forgiven him, and honoured him by making him an apostle, but he could not forgive himself; and no doubt the tears gushed from his eyes when he wrote these words, I am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.