Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Ver. 24. Dominion over your faith] As masters of your consciences; such as the bridge maker of Rome (Pontifex Romanus) will needs be, Revelation 17:1. The purple whore sitteth upon the nations, i.e. she useth them vilely and basely, sitting upon their consciences. Stephen, king of Polonia, was wont to say that these three things God had reserved to himself: 1. To make something of nothing. 2. To know future events. 3. To have dominion over men's consciences.