For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Ver. 10. Weighty and powerful] As often as I read Paul's Epistles, Non verba, sed tonitrua audire mihi videor, saith Jerome, Methinks I hear not words, but thunderclaps. But that his bodily presence was not weak, nor his speech contemptible, see Acts 13:10. See Trapp on " Act 13:10 "