Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? At the end of the Apostle had seemed to praise himself and seek the favour of the Corinthians, hence he meets here any suspicion of vain glory.
Or need we . . . epistles of commendation to you . . . or from you? ie, written by you to commend me to others.