I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.