O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Ver. 11. Our mouth is open unto you] We speak thus freely unto you, out of our deep affection towards you; we even carve you a piece of our heart, we pour forth ourselves in this flood of speech, that thereby ye may take a scantling of our over abundant love to your souls. κεχηνοτες, open mouthed men, are put for fools oftentimes in Lucian and Aristophanes; but in another sense than the apostle here useth it. A large heart maketh a man full in the mouth, as if it sought that way to get out to the thing affected.