1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: …
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)In these verses, 1. The apostle proceeds in giving an account of the reason why he did not come to Corinth, as was expected; namely, because he was unwilling to grieve them, or be grieved by them, 2 Cor. 2:1 , 2 . He had determined not to come to them in heaviness , which yet he would have done had he come and found scandal among them not duly animadverted upon: this would have been cause of grief…
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