Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 15:31

31 I protest by your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily .

What is meant here by your rejoycing which I have, is something doubted; some understanding it of the Apostles rejoycing in them as Believers, whom he had been an Instrument to convert, and bring home to Christ: others of their rejoycing in him (which seems not probable, many of them so much despising and vilifying him:) others understand it, of their glorying against him, and triumphing over him, and that this was one of his sufferings which he instanceth in, which he underwent in hope of a Ressurection. The words are not an Oath, (for here God is not called to witness) they are only an Attestation. As the Prophets sometimes call Heaven and Earth to witness, so here he calls their Rejoycing to witness; and this rejoycing seems to be the joy of those who amongst them truly rejoyced in Jesus Christ, for which also he rejoyced daily, they being the Seal of his Apostleship. That which he solemnly affirms, is, That he died daily; not only was ready to dye daily, but in the same sense that he elsewhere saith, he was in Deaths often, and that they were killed all the day long; suffering such afflictions as were near a kin to death, and led on to death, as their end.

Marginal references: Some read our.; 1 Thess. 2.19.; Rom. 8.36. Chap. 4.9. 2 Cor. 4.10, 11.