If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Ver. 15. He shall suffer loss] Of his work (his laborious loss of time) and of some part of his wages.
Yet so as by fire] Not of purgatory (a Popish fiction), but of the Holy Ghost. Or (as one interprets it) like unto them who save themselves naked out of the fire without carrying away any of their goods; so his person shall be saved, but he shall not have the reward of a well-qualified minister.