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Unto me who am less than the least of all saints (emoi tōi elachistoterōi pantōn hagiōn). Dative case emoi with elothē. The peculiar form elachistoterōi (in apposition with emoi) is a comparative (̇teros) formed on the superlative elachistos. This sort of thing was already done in the older Greek like eschatoteros in Xenophon. It became more common in the Koiné. So the double comparative meizoteran in 3Jo 1:4. The case of hagiōn is ablative. This was not mock humility (Rom 15:19), for on occasion Paul stood up for his rights as an apostle (2Co 11:5).
The unsearchable riches of Christ (to anexichniaston ploutos tou Christou). Anexichniastos (a privative and verbal of exichniazō, to track out, ex and ichnos, track) appears first in Job 5:9; Job 9:10. Paul apparently got it from Job. Nowhere else in N.T. except Rom 11:33. In later Christian writers. Paul undertook to track out the untrackable in Christ.