Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:23

23 Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool, I am more : in labours more abundant : in stripes above measure: in prisons more frequent : in deaths oft .

Will they glory in this, that they are Ministers of Christ? imployed as the Servants of Christ in preaching the Gospel? I should not boast about this, (in that I may seem to speak like a fool) but I am much more a Minister than they, both with respect to my Call to the work, and also my performing of it. I had a more immediate Call and Mission to the work than what they can boast of; and I have done more in that work, than any of them have done.

I have travelled more to preach it, I have laboured more in the prop[illegible: 1 letter]gation of it.

I have suffered more for the preaching of it, I have been oftner whipped, oftner imprisoned, than any of them ever were: See Chap. 6.4, 5.

I have been oftner in hazard of my life: he calls dangers threatning death, deaths ▪ (as 2 Cor. 1.10.)

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 15.10.; Acts 9.16. & 21.11.; 1 Cor. 15.31. Chap. 1.10. & 4.11.