For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
Ver. 9. And effectual] ενεργης, or, busy, that requires great painstaking. The ministry is not an idle man's occupation, as some fools think it.
And many adversaries] Truth never lacks an opposite. In the beginning of the late Reformation, Eckius, Roffensis, Cajetan, Moore, Faber, Cochlaeus, Catharinus, Pighius, all these wrote against Luther, Summo conatu, acerrimo desiderio, non vulgari doctrina, as one saith, with utmost desire and endeavour.