Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 7:3

3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you .

The Apostle deals very tenderly with this Church, which was (as he knew very well) full of many touchy Members; who upon all occasions were ready to reflect upon him, and to take occasion from any expressions of his in Letters, as well as other things, to that purpose; to obviate whose whisperings the Apostle tells them, that he did not speak this to reflect upon, or expose them, as if they had wronged, or defrauded him: For the love which he bare to them was such, as would admit of no such thing; he so loved them, as that he could live and dye with them.

Marginal references: Chap. [illegible: 1 letter].1[illegible: 1 letter] 12.