“Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;”
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given to me to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ — Paul's self-designation elachistoteros ('least of all saints,' a humility formula) contrasts with his apostolic calling (dotheihen moi hē charis) to announce to ethnē ('Gentiles') the anexichniastos ploutos Christou ('unsearchable riches of Christ,' riches beyond human investigation).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 3:8
They who go to the physician's have not merely to go there and nothing further; they have to learn how to treat themselves, and to apply remedies. And so with us then who come here, we must not do this and nothing else, we must learn our lesson, the surpassing lowliness of Paul. What? When he was about to speak of the vastness of the grace of God, hear what he says, “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given.” Lowliness indeed it was even to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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