Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 7:4

4 Great is my boldness of speech towards you , great is my glorying of you , I am filled with comfort , I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation .

Because I so dearly love you, therefore I speak so boldly and freely to you, (as men use to speak most freely to those whom they most love.)

I boast of your obedience to others, and therefore would be far from exposing you.

And this I do not feignedly, for I am filled with comfort on your behalf; (a further account of this he giveth us afterward.)

Yea, (saith he) the report I have received of your carriage and behaviour, upon your receit of my former Epistle, hath filled me with a joy that balanceth all the affliction and tribulation that I meet with for the Gospel. So good News to a faithful Minister is the repentance and reformation of any Member or Members that belong to his Flock: whereas the hireling or false Teacher is not much concerned whether the souls of his people do well or ill.

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