2. For —proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness"). if I —The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this ( :- ) is not my reason for not coming as I proposed; since I showed no scruple in causing "heaviness," or sorrow, in my Epistle (the first Epistle to the Corinthians). But I answer, If I be the one to cause you sorrow, it is not that I have any pleasure in doing so. Nay, my object was that he "who was made sorry by me" (namely, the Corinthians in general, :- ; but with tacit reference to the incestuous person in particular ) should repent, and so "make me glad," as has actually taken place; "for . . . who is he then that?" &c. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-3" class="com-number"
Pericope (part_of)
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pericope/per-2co-2-001
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Source
source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological