But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Ver. 15. Judgeth all things] By his spirit of discerning, 1 Corinthians 14:2, his spiritual senses exercised to discern good and evil, Hebrews 5:14, his undoubted persuasion of that truth he professeth, Colossians 2:3, and whereof he hath felt the sweetness, Colossians 1:9. Papists will needs have this spiritual man that judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of none, to be the pope. But when this Epistle was written, there was no such thing as a pope; no such doctrine as that the pope is infallible; that he must not be contradicted though he speak blasphemy or heresy; no, though he should draw thousands of souls after him to hell, say the Canonists, those abominable slowbacks. St Paul, who had the mind of Christ, was never of this mind.
Is judged of no man] Of no natural man, who can judge no more of divine truths than a blind man can do of colours, or a sick man of meats. And herein the poorest idiot (saith one), being a sound Christian, goeth beyond the profoundest clerks that are not sanctified, that he hath his own heart instead of a commentary, to help to understand even the most needful points of the Scripture.