Nevertheless, God that comforteth those that are cast
down,
&c.] Or "humble ones": such as are humbled under the
afflicting hand of God, and have low and mean apprehensions of
themselves; these God looks unto, dwells with, revives their
hearts, cheers their drooping spirits, and fills them with
comforts; he has been used to do so with such persons; he has
raised comfort to them; they may expect it, and the apostle
experienced it; and which he refers to God as the author of it,
as he had done in the beginning of this epistle, calling him "the
God of all comfort"; he was the efficient cause, the means by
which it was effected was the coming of Titus:
comforted us by the coming of Titus;
to whom the apostle bore a very great affection, he being his son
in a spiritual sense, a companion with him in his travels, and of
great usefulness and service in the ministration of the Gospel;
so that the very sight of him gave him pleasure; and the more,
inasmuch as he had for some time longed to see him, that he might
have some account from him of the affairs of this church.