¹⁸ Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.^(A) We are signs^(B) and symbols^(C) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.^(D)

⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die^(A) in the arena. We have been made a spectacle^(B) to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.