For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
For - my elaim is superior to that of the false teachers. "For," etc. So 'Aleph (') Delta G f g, Vulgate. But B reads 'But.'
I suppose - I reckon х logizomai (G3049)].
I was not - Greek, 'that I have not been, and am not.'
The very chiefest apostles - James, Peter, and John, the witnesses of Christ's transfiguration and agony in Gethsemane. Rather, 'those over-much apostles' [toon huperlian apostoloon], those surpassers of the apostles in their own esteem. The context does not compare him and the apostles, but him and the false teachers: 2 Corinthians 11:6 also alludes to these: cf. also the parallel, 'false prophets' (note 2 Corinthians 11:13, and 2 Corinthians 12:11).