Context 15:8 Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time,1 he appeared to me also.
15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
[15:8]1snOne born at the wrong time. The Greek word used here (ἔκτρωμα, ektrwma) refers to a premature birth, a miscarriage, or an aborted child. Paul uses it as a powerful figure of the unexpected, abnormal nature of his apostolic call.