The Corinthians, or possibly even Paul’s opponents, observed, in fact, that his letters were weightier than his personal bodily presence and his oral rhetoric (2 Cor. 10:10), which was perhaps hampered by some physical disability.54 They also apparently cared little for his deliberate self-humiliation, his assumption of a servant role, which was “an attitude in violent reaction to much that was central to the classical way of life, not excluding the smooth doctrines of moderation.”55 In a city where