Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Ver. 7. A teacher of the Gentiles] His Epistles therefore should be highly prized by us Gentiles, and diligently studied. St Peter admires them, 2 Peter 3:15, and commends them to the Church's reading. And because there are some things in them hard to be understood, and easy to be wrested from their right meaning, 2 Peter 3:16, it was therefore grave advice that one gives young Christians, that they should begin at the latter end of St Paul's Epistles, which treateth of points of practice. Since a corrupt life can never have a sound judgment.