the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

For I address myself to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed the apostle of the Gentiles, I exalt my ministry:

Being myself an Apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.