‘Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given, that I should preacb among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ’ (Eph. 3:8).
If we heard that sentence read for the first time, I think we should all
feel it was a very remarkable one, even though we did not know by
whom it was written. It is remarkable on account of the bold and
striking figures of speech which it contains. ‘Less than the least of all
saints,’ ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ - these are indeed ‘thoughts that
breathe and words that burn’.
ZZBut the sentence is doubly remarkable when we consider the man
who wrote it. The writer was none other than the great apostle of the
Gentiles, St Paul, the leader of that noble little Jewish army, which
went forth from Palestine eighteen centuries ago, and turned the world
upside down, that good soldier of Christ who left a deeper mark on
mankind than any born of woman, except his sinless Master -— a mark
which abides to this very day. Surely such a sentence from the pen of
such a man demands peculiar attention.
