Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 4:11

11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place .

Our state in the world is low and mean; though you be full, we are hungry and thirsty; though you be richly cloathed, yet we are next to naked, cloathed with raggs; though you be hugg'd and embraced by the men of the world, yet we are buffeted; though you have rich and famous houses, yet we have no certain dwelling place. Thus it hath been with us from the beginning of our profession of Christ, and thus it is with us at this day (saith the Apostle) from whence he gives these Corinthians and their false Teachers a just reason to suspect themselves, whether they were true and sincere Professors, yea or no, and to consider how it came to pass, that their lot in the world was so different from the lot of those whom the Lord had dignified with the Title and Office of his Apostles. The condition of the most faithful and able Ministers and the most sincere Christians that have been in the world, hath always been a mean and afflicted state and condition.

Marginal references: 2 Cor. 4.8.; 2 Cor. 11.2[illegible: 1 letter] Acts 23.2.