Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:7

7 Have I committed an offence in abasing my self, that you might be exalted , because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely ?

Is it for my putting you to no charge in my preaching the Gospel? This was a thing wherein he gloried, and told them, 1 Cor. 9.6, 12, 15. that he would rather die, than have his glorying void in this particular.

Marginal references: What is it that hath made you take such offence at me? seeing you cannot say, that either in my Call, or in my Gifts and Graces, or in my Labours, or in the success of my labours, I have been inferiour to the chiefest of the Apostles? Doth this offend you, that for your sake I have veiled my Authority, and departed from my Right? which makes some of you say, I am base in presence.