If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
Ver. 12. If others be partakers] If your ordinary pastors, &c., for the false apostles preached gratis (as some gather out of 2Co 11:12), partly to draw more disciples, and partly to bring an odium upon the apostle, if he should not do the like.