The result of the uproar was that the apostles were beaten and cast into prison. Somehow it was soon discovered that they themselves were Roman citizens, "and when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let these men go. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go; now, therefore, depart and go in peace." It is now Paul's turn to be indignant, and he is not the man to let the opportunity slip. Paul insisted, as he had a right to do, upon his dignity as a Roman citizen. He tartly replied, "They have taken us openly, uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now thrust us out privily? Nay, verily; but _let them come themselves and fetch us_." A touch of nature there! "And they came (meekly enough now, those pompous magistrates) _and brought them out_." A man who never lacked courage was Paul. It had been told him that there were certain ones among the Corinthians who had respect for his letters, but something bordering on contempt for his person. "For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible." This is his answer: "Let such an one think this, that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such will we be also in deed, when we are present." Let those scoffers look to themselves! In lighter and almost playful vein, is his remark about the church at Corinth, in his second letter: "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds." And yet there was one point in which the Corinthian church was inferior to others: "For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, _except it be that I myself was not burdensome unto you_?" Paul had allowed the other churches with which he labored to support him, but to the Corinthian church he had not accorded the same privilege. He had favored it with no opportunity for benevolence. "_Forgive me_," he exclaims, "_this wrong_." Paul relates that on one occasion he had a dispute with Peter at Antioch, in which he "withstood Peter to the face, because Peter was to blame." It is to be doubted whether Peter ever quite forgot this dispute. The memory of it may have lingered and been particularly active when he referred in one of his own letters to "our beloved brother Paul who, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles speaking of these things; _in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unstable and unlearned do wrest_, as they do also the other Scriptures, (pray do not think that I am making brother Paul's writings an exception) _to their own destruction_."