2 Corinthians 12:11

γέγονα ἄφρων · ὑμεῖς κ. τ. λ.: I am become foolish, sc., boasting thus: ye compelled me, i.e., it was your doing; for I ought to have been commended by you (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 9:1), i.e., you should not have left it to me to speak my own praises: for in nothing was I behind the superfine Apostles, whom you trust so readily, although I am nothing, sc., in God's eyes (cf. John 8:54; 1 Corinthians 3:7). Of the Apostles properly so called, St. Paul calls himself ὁ ἐλάχιστος (1 Corinthians 15:9); but he will not admit for a moment the superiority of the Corinthian Judaisers.