of the fact that you do not have it of yourself, for glory here, but not before God.21 The Apostle says to him who glorifies himself: “What have you that you have not received? And if you have received it, how can you boast of it as if you had not received it?”22 He does not say simply: “How can you boast of it,” but adds: “as if you had not received it,” to show the guilt lies not in boasting of something but in treating it as if it was not a gift received. This is rightly called vainglory, for