Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 12:1

1 IT is not expedient for me, doubtless, to glory : I will come to visions and revelatio[illegible: 1 letter]s of the Lord .

It is neither comely, nor of any advantage to my self, to glory; nor would I do it but in this case of necessity, where glorying is necessary for the glory of God, and for your good, to vindicate my self to you from the imputations that some others lay upon me.

Do any of them boast of Visions and Revelations from God? I have something of that nature to glory in as well as they. Some make this difference betwixt Visions, and Revelations; that Visions signifie Apparitions, the meaning of which, those that see them, do not understand: Revelations signifie the discoveries of the Mind and Will of God to persons immediately, either by Dreams, or by some audible Voice; which may be without any object represented to the Eye. Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar seem to have had such Visions as they did not understand, till interpreted by Ioseph and Daniel. But undoubtedly Pauls Visions were not such. The difference therefore seems rather to be, That in all Visions, which Good and Holy men had, there was a Revelation; but every Revelation did not suppose a Vision.

Marginal references: Gr. for I will come.