For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
But if against my will. That is, if I do not do it with alacrity and zeal, but instigated by the sole motive of punishment, woe unto me, as he says in the preceding verse, if I am instigated by this motive alone; still the dispensation of the gospel is entrusted to me, and I must comply with that obligation, either with the zeal and alacrity of a son, or for fear of punishment, as a slave. (Estius)
