Origen de Principiis Book I Paul were sprung from the root of a good tree, how should they be deemed to have brought forth fruits so wicked? And if they should return the answer which is generally invented, that it was not Paul who persecuted, but some other person, I know not whom, who was in Paul; and that it was not Peter who uttered the denial, but some other individual in him; how should Paul say, if he had not sinned, that "I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God? "[131] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes "I am the last of all the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle. But by the grace of God I am what I am."[336]