Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 5:12

12 For we commend not our selves again unto you , but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart .

I do not speak this to commend my self unto you; he had before declared, that he trusted that he was made manifest to their Consciences, and so needed not further to commend himself. But (saith he)

I speak it only to give you occasion to glory, to glory in me as the Apostle of Christ unto you, or to defend me against the scandals and reproaches of those that reproach me, when themselves have no true inward cause of glorying, though they have in outward appearance, in respect of their riches, wit, wisdom, or the like.

Marginal references: Chap 3.1.; Chap. 1.14.; Gr. in the [illegible: 1 word].