Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:2

2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousie ; for I have espoused you to one husband , that I may present you as a chast virgin to Christ .

Iealousie is a passion in a person which makes him impatient of any Rival or Partner in the thing or person beloved. The Apostle tells them, that he was jealous over them, and thereby lets them know, that he so passionately loved them, as that he was not patient that any should pretend more kindness to them, than he had for them; and withal, that he had some fear of them, left they should be perverted and drawn away from the simplicity of the Gospel; upon this account he calls it a godly Iealousie.

For (saith he) I have been instrumental to bring you to Christ; this he calls an Espousing of them, (the union of persons with Christ being exprest in Scripture under the notion of a Marriage, Eph. 5.23, &c.)

And he expresseth his earnest desire to present them to Christ incorrupted, like a chast Virgin.

Marginal references: Col. 1.28.; Lev. 21.13.