First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Ver. 8. Your faith is spoken of] See Romans 16:26, and Juvenal, Tacitus, and other profane writers, who bitterly exagitate the doctrines and practices of those Roman Christians. Now that must needs be good that such men speak evil of: and as Jerome writeth to Austin, Quod signum maioris gloriae est, Omnes haeretici me detestantur: the heretics hate me; and that is no small grace to me.