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For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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Verse 17. But if against my will. That is, if I do not do it with alacrity and zeal, but instigated by the sole motive of punishment, wo unto me, as he says in the preceding verse, if I am instigated by this motive alone; still the dispensation of the gospel is entrusted to me, and I must comply with that obligation, either with the zeal and alacrity of a son, or for fear of punishment, as a slave. Estius.
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