Verse 31
31. This adjuration that I lie not, is, like that in Romans 9:1, a denial in the very word, lie, of his assailants. Though a large number of Paul’s endurances were known to the Corinthians, and though all here enumerated were analogous to those known, yet the full amount, the sum total, could not be sworn to by any one, even of St. Paul’s companions, as Timothy, Titus, Luke, Trophimus, etc.; but so much could be attested by all that this, his solemn oath, could meet the lie given him by his assailants for the purpose not only of abasing his boasts, but also to sink him to the earth as a falsifier. It is strange that Alford and other commentators should be at a loss to account for the earnestness of this adjuration. The point at which it touches is the very crisis of the life-struggle between St. Paul and his opponents.
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