"the infirmities of that great apostle"

St. Paul "knew that if this great world, and what it encloses in its vast bosom, is the work of [God's] power, he made a new world, a world redeemed by his blood and regenerated by his death, that is to say, his holy Church, which is the work of his weakness."

     Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, "Panégyrique de l'apotre saint Paul" (30 June 1657), Bossuet:  oraisons funèbres panégyriques, ed. L’Abbé Bernard Velat, Biblioteque de la Pleiade 33 (Paris:  Librairie Gallimard, 1950), 387 (385-407), translation mine.  "I will be restricting myself [(me réduis)] to making you see the weaknesses of this great apostle" (386).