Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:8

8 I have robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service .

He interpreteth the term of Robbing other Churches, by a taking wages of them, (which indeed is no robbery, as he had proved 1 Cor. 9.) All the robbery that was in it lay in this, That his maintenance, in strictness of Right, should have been proportionably from this, as well as from other Churches; but for some reasons, (which he thinks fit to conceal) he refused to receive any thing from this Church; but spa[illegible: 1 letter]ed them, and lived upon the maintenance he had from other Churches, while he was doing them service. Either he saw the Members of this Church were poor, or that there were some in this Church who would sooner have taken advantage to reproach him for it, and so have hindred the success of the Gospel. Whatever it was that caused the Apostle to do it, certain it is, that he did it, and made it a great piece of his glorying.