For ye suffer; that is, ye endure patiently. He now adduces the proof that they suffer fools gladly.

Bring you into bondage; by usurping dominion over you.

Devour you; devour your property.

Take of you; or, take you; that is, take you by fraud, circumvent you.

Exalt himself; over you.

Smite you of the face; treat you with insolence and abuse. The inference is, that if they can suffer all this patiently, they ought to bear with the apostle in his boasting.

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