![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some refer this to the apostle's being, or not being, in an ecstasy or rapture. The glory of God, and the good of his churches, were what concerned them in every part of life. Think and speak meanly of ourselves, and behave with all modesty and lowliness of mind: it is for your cause for your instruction and imitation. It is for his glory, and not our own, that we act this part, for which we are condemned as madmen. As some took them to be, and as Festus thought the Apostle Paul was, because of the doctrines they preached, and the self-commendation they were obliged to enter into through the calumnies of their adversaries in which they did not so much seek their own reputation, as the honour and glory of God, which was struck at through them: ![]()
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