It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,

and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me."

some on planks and others on various bits of the ship. And thus they all got safely to land.

For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours!

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."