And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
Ver. 36. And see how they do] Whether that wicked one (or troubler, ο πονηρος, Mat 13:39) hath not cast his club among them, or corrupted their minds from the simplicity that is in Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:3. How soon were the Galatians unsettled by seducers and sect makers, Galatians 1:6. What ill work made those deceitful workers at Corinth, in St Paul's absence; and the heretics in the primitive Church, and the Anabaptists in Germany, &c. While Moses was but a while in the mount, the people had gotten them a golden calf. When Calvin was cast out of Geneva but for a short time, Sadoletus wrote a very smooth and subtle epistle to the inhabitants, to persuade them to return back to Popery. We ministers seldom find our work as we left it, we had need therefore visit often, and handle our sheep, &c., to see how they do, and whether (as Gaiuses) their souls as well as bodies be in health and prosper, 3 John 1:2 .