Partakers of this power— It may be proper just to observe, that Matthew 10:1. John 17:2 and many other places prove, that εξουσιας υμων may properly be rendered a power over you. The Corinthians, considering the low rate at which Socrates taught, might have been induced to think that St. Paul was not wholly disinterested in his mission, if hehad claimed a maintenance for his instruction; and this very suspicion might have been prejudicial to the Gospel in those parts. From the conduct of the Apostle here, and the other Apostles in other places, particularly among the Macedonian churches, we may conclude, that he might see some circumstances which determined him to decline accepting any subsistence from the Corinthians while he resided among them. See Locke, Doddridge, and Pyle.
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1 Corinthians 9:12
12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.