That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Ver. 5. That your faith, &c.] A human testimony can breed but a human faith. Aaron's bells were of pure gold; our whole preaching must be Scripture-proof, or it will burn, and none be the better for it. Ut drachmam auri sine imagine principis, sic verba hortantis sine authoritate Dei contemnunt homines, saith Lipsius.
In the power of God] In the gospel that lodgeth a certainty in the soul.