Lest if the Macedonians, to whom I have boasted of your forwardness, ver. 2, come along with me to you, and find that you have not your supplies ready, it be matter of great shame to me, as it must be also to you, (see note [a] ch. viii. 10,) that I have had the In brief, the persons that are intrusted in this business are such as may be trusted, Titus, that accompanied me and helped to convert you, the other brethren, Luke, &c., men of eminence and rule in the churches of Christ, (see note on Rom. xvi. 6,) and such as have been used as instruments to advance the gospel.