10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.



Ver. 10. Weighty and powerful] As often as I read Paul’s Epistles, Non verba, sed tonitrua audire mihi videor, saith Jerome, Methinks I hear not words, but thunderclaps. But that his bodily presence was not weak, nor his speech contemptible, see Act_13:10. {See Trapp on "Act_13:10"}