As the truth of Christ is in me
To show the firmness of his resolution, and how determined he was
to abide by it, he joins an oath to it; for these words are the
form of an oath; and it is as if he should say, as sure as Christ
is truth, who is in me; or as that the truth of grace, or the
truth of the Gospel of Christ is in my heart and mouth, so sure
will I constantly persevere in this determination; or let the
truth of Christ never be thought to be in me, if I do not:
no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of
Achaia;
or this boasting shall not be stopped in me; of preaching the
Gospel freely at Corinth, and that he had not been chargeable and
burdensome to them; nor would he be for time to come, neither
there, nor in any part of Achaia, of which Corinth was the
metropolis; (See Gill on
2 Corinthians 9:2). No man should stop his mouth from
boasting of this, by putting anything into his hands, for he was
determined not to receive anything from any person in these
climates; not but that he reserved a liberty in himself to
receive from other persons and churches, for his comfortable
subsistence, and so much the limitation of his resolution to
these parts implies; for if he had not intended to have received
a supply from any persons whatever, the restriction to the
regions of Achaia would have been unnecessary; and he should
rather have said, that no man should stop him of this boasting in
any part of the world. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "this
boasting shall not be broken"; and to the same sense the Syriac
version, "this boasting shall not be abolished".
