That would be the first step towards his letting me cure him.

How else on earth do you fancy that Paul cured those Corinthians about whom I have been reading lately ?" "Are you, too, going to quote Scripture against me?
I am glad to find that your studies extend to St.Paul." "To tell you the truth, your sermon last Sunday puzzled me.

I could not comprehend (on your showing) how Paul got that wonderful influence over those pagans which he evidently had; and as how to get influence is a very favourite study of mine, I borrowed the book when I went home, and read for myself; and the matter at last seemed clear enough, on Paul's own showing." "I don't doubt that: but I suspect your interpretation of the fact and mine would not agree." "Mine is simple enough.

He says that what proved him to be an apostle was his power.

He is continually appealing to his power; and what can he mean by that, but that he could do, and had done, what he professed to do?
He promised to make those poor heathen rascals of Greeks better, and wiser, and happier men; and, I suppose, he made them so; and then there was no doubt of his commission, or his authority, or anything else.