For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

`because the letters indeed--saith one-- are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.