Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 1:12

12. That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me. .

i. e. By the Faith which you and I have in Jesus Christ: Which he elsewhere calls the Common Faith, and the Faith of God's Elect: All true Comfort springs from Faith.

This is added to qualify what he had said before, lest he should seem to Arrogate too much to himself, he tells them, he hop'd not only to Comfort them, but to be Comforted by them. The meanest of Christ's Members may contribute somewhat to the Edifying even of an Apostle. The Apostle Iohn did hope to be quickned and comforted by the Graces of a Woman and her Children, 2 Iohn 12. Great is the benefit of the Communion of Saints,

Marginal references: Or, exhorted.; Or, in you; Tit. 1.4. 2 Pet. 1.1.