2 Corinthians 10:10

his bodily presence is weak The bodily weakness of the Apostle seems clearly indicated by many passages in Scripture. We may perhaps gather from Acts 14:12 (though this is doubtful) that he was of less dignified presence than St Barnabas. He refers to his infirmity in 1 Corinthians 2:3. It was probably the thorn in the flesh of which he speaks in ch. 2 Corinthians 12:7 (see Introduction), and the -temptation" which was -in his flesh" in Galatians 4:13-14. There is an admirable note on St Paul's personal appearance at the end of Dr Plumptre's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in the Bishop of Gloucester's New Testament for English Readers.

and his speech contemptible Literally, despised. Rude, Tyndale. Wiclif, worthi to be dispisid. This is the proper meaning of the word contemptible. Whatever St Paul's fervour and mental and spiritual power may have been, it is evident that he lacked the conventional gifts of the orator, the powerful voice, the fluent and facile delivery, the arts whereby to enchain attention. It was not the manner of his speech, but its matter, which attracted his hearers to him.