Humility of Greatness
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given…


On his way to Sweden the celebrated Grotius was overtaken by mortal sickness; and when the clergyman, Quinstorp, reminded him of his sins on the one hand, and on the other, not of his services and worldwide reputation, but the grace of God in Christ Jesus, with a reference to the publican — "I am that publican," replied Grotius, and then expired. Hooker, the author of the "Ecclesiastical Polity," one of the noblest books in the language, after he had been made preacher at the Temple Church, besought Archbishop Whitgift, who had given him that position, to remove him to a lowlier sphere of labour.



Parallel Verses
KJV: 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;

WEB: To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,




Humility of a Minister
Top of Page
Top of Page