Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 16:19

19. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf : but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil .

q. d. As for you, your ready embracing of the Gospel and Conformity thereunto, is generally taken notice of by all that mind such things: see the like, chap. 1.8. 1 Thess. 1.8. I rejoyce to hear of your soundness and teachableness; I do not therefore speak this to accuse, but to caution you.

q. d. Take heed that you be not cheated by Seducers, that they do not abuse your tractableness to draw you into errors. He exhorts them to joyn prudence with simplicity; to be so harmless and simple as not to invent false Doctrine, and yet to be so wise and skilful as to be able to discern Truth from Falshood; to be so innocent as not to deceive, and so prudent as not to be deceived. vid. Mat. 10.16. He prayes for the Phillipians, that they may have this discretion, Phil. 1.9, 10. and exhorts the Thessalonians thereunto, 1 Thes. 5.21.

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