Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 10:16

16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you , and not to boast in another mans line of things made ready to our hand .

The Apostle here expoundeth what he meaneth by the term magnified or inlarged in the preceding verse, viz. to have a door opened to preach the Gospel in places whither it was not yet come. God honoureth persons when he maketh them instruments to bring any to an acquaintance with, and to the embraing of his Gospel, who formerly had been ignorant of it, and not acquainted with it.

He here seemeth to reflect on the false Teachers crept into this Church, who had nothing to boast in but a pretended building upon other mens foundations, and carrying on a work by others made ready to their hands; and seemeth to prefer the work of Conversion, and an instrumentality in that, before an instrumentality meerly in edification, and carrying on the work of God already begun in peoples Souls.

Marginal references: Or, rule.