2 Corinthians 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you: we read in holy writ but of two journeys which the apostle made to Corinth, Acts 18:1, Acts 20:2, and the latter is believed to have been after the writing of this Epistle. We must not think that all these motions are set down in Scripture. It is manifest that Paul had thoughts of going oftener, Acts 19:21 1 Corinthians 16:5 2 Corinthians 1:15. Man purposeth, but God disposeth. For which reason, James adviseth us to add: If the Lord will, to our expressions testifying our resolutions. And I will not be burdensome to you; he lets them know, that he was coming to them with the same resolutions he had before taken up, not to put them to any charge. For I seek not yours, but you; for that, which should be the design of every faithful minister, was his design; viz. the gaining of their souls to Christ, and protecting of them, that in the day of judgment he might present them as a pure and chaste virgin unto Christ. His business was not to enrich himself by them; he sought the good of their souls, not their estates. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents: he looked upon them as his children, upon himself as their parent. And though indeed children ought to relieve their parents, if in want, yet it is not the course of the world for children to lay up for their parents. But the parents for the children; but, on the contrary, it is the course of parents to maintain their children, and to lay up for them.