2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.



Ver. 2. That I may not be bold] That you necessitate me not. Non nisi coactus hoc facio, said that emperor that subscribed a warrant to put one to death.



With that confidence] It was but confidence, but they made the worst of it, and called it boldness, Quam vitio verterunt. Evil will never speaks well.