Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
Ver. 17. I praise you not] q.d. I discommend and dispraise you. The Corinthians were in many things faulty and blameworthy. St Paul deals plainly and freely with them, and would not therefore take their offered kindness, 2 Corinthians 12:14,18, lest he should be engaged to them, and by receiving a courtesy, sell his liberty.