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**Verse 2**
*To faithful men;* as ministers of the gospel.

**Verse 3**
*Hardness;* hardship.

**Verse 5**
*For masteries;* in the athletic games common in those days as public amusements.--*Lawfully;* according to the rules and conditions established for the regulation of the game.

**Verse 6**
The meaning is, that the husbandman must labor before he can partake of the fruits; and so the toils and sufferings of Christ's service here must precede the rest and rewards of heaven.

**Verse 8**
*My gospel;* the gospel which has been intrusted to me.

**Verse 9**
*Wherein;* in preaching which.

**Verse 11**
*Dead with him;* dead to sin with him.

**Verse 17**
*Their word;* their influence.--*Will eat as doth a canker;* corrupting and destroying the spirit of piety.

**Verse 19**
*The foundation of God;* the foundation which God has laid,--meaning that portion of the professing church which he had established, as is indicated by what follows.--*Let every one,* &c.; that is, there was a test to determine the genuineness of discipleship, in the personal holiness which was manifested as the fruits of a religious profession.

**Verse 20**
*A great house;* here representing the house of God, namely, the church.

**Verse 21**
*Purge himself from these;* from the errors and follies above named.

**Verse 24**
*Must not strive;* must not dispute and contend.

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