Now  see  how  St.  Paul  meets  this.  "  With  me  it  is  a  very
small  thing  that  I  should  be  judged  of  you,  or  of  man's  judg
ment."  He  simply  refuses  to  submit  his  authority  to  any
judgment ;  and  this  you  will  say,  perchance,  was  priestly
pride,  a  characteristic  haughtiness.  Exactly  the  reverse,  it
was  profound  humility.  Not  because  he  was  above  judg
ment,  not  because  he  was  infallible,  or  teaching  truths  too
grand  for  them,  but  because  he  was  to  be  judged  before  a
tribunal  far  more  awful  than  Corinthian  society.  Not  by
man  would  he  be  judged,  because  fidelity  is  the  chief  excel
lence  in  a  steward,  and  fidelity  is  precisely  that  which  rnen
can  not  judge.  They  can  only  judge  of  gifts,  whereas  the
true  dignity  of  their  minister  consists  not  in  gifts,  nor  in  pop
ularity,  nor  in  success,  but  simply  in  having  faithfully  used
his  powers,  and  boldly  spoken  the  truth  which  was  in  him.
St.  Paul  refuses  even  to  pass  judgment  on  himself.  He
says,  "I  know  nothing  by  myself."  In  the  common  reading
this  passage  would  seem  to  mean,  Whatever  I  know  is  not
by  myself^ but  by  a  Higher  Power;  but  what  the  translator
meant,  and  as  it  would  even  now  be  understood  by  our  north-
countrymen,  is  this,  "  I  know  nothing  against  myself."  "  I
am  not  conscious  of  untruth,  or  lack  of  fidelity."

"  Yet,"  he  goes  on  to  say, "  am  I  not  hereby  justified  :  but
He  that  judgeth  me  is  the  Lord."  Here,  then,  is  what  St.
