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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?Farrar's discernment of the meaning here is this: "Paul was unwilling to pain those who gladdened him, and therefore would not pay them a visit which could only be painful on both sides."[5] read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.I wrote this very thing ... This is most suitably understood as a direct reference to 1 Corinthians 16:5ff where he told the Corinthians of his revised itinerary."[6] Some have referred these words to the "lost letter"; but such a reference is arbitrary. Besides, the understanding of these words as a reference to First... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:2

2 Corinthians 2:2. For if I make you sorry, &c.— "For if I were to do any thing that would be a trouble to you, whom I so dearly love, nothing but a sense of duty, and hope of rectifying what was amiss among you, could ever reconcile me to it, much less give me any satisfaction in it: and which of you, in that case, could exhilarate my spirits, and make me rejoice again; unless it were the very person, or persons, whom I should have made uneasy by sharp rebukes, both of the principal... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:3

2 Corinthians 2:3. I wrote this same unto you,— That I wrote relates to the first epistle to the Corinthians is evident, because it is so used in the next and the ninth verse; and what he wrote in that epistle, which he calls αυτο τουτο, this very thing, was, most probably, concerning the punishment of the fornicator; as appears by what follows to 2Co 2:11 especially if it be compared with 1 Corinthians 4:0 and 1 Corinthians 5:8. For there he writes to them to punish that person; and if St.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:2

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... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:3

3. I wrote this same unto you—namely, that I would not come to you then ( :-), as, if I were to come then, it would have to be "in heaviness" (causing sorrow both to him and them, owing to their impenitent state). He refers to the first Epistle (compare :-; compare 1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Corinthians 4:21; 1 Corinthians 5:2-7; 1 Corinthians 5:13). sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice—that is, sorrow from their impenitence, when he ought, on the contrary, to have joy from their penitent... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:2

Who could make Paul glad if he came to them and made them sorrowful? No one could. The Corinthians certainly could not since he would have made them sorrowful. Paul’s point was that if he came to them and made them sorrowful again he himself would be sorrowful since they were his source of joy. Consequently he decided to postpone his visit. Evidently if Paul had come to them as originally planned he would have had to rebuke or discipline them for some situation that existed in the church.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Corinthians 2:3

Now Paul referred to a previous letter in which he said he told them he would not come to them again in sorrow. Is this a reference to 1 Corinthians? Some commentators believe it is. [Note: E.g., Hughes, Alford, Denney, Lightfoot, Bernard, Sanday, Zahn, Lenski, et al.] Nevertheless the lack of an explicit reference to not coming to them again in sorrow in that epistle throws some doubt on this interpretation. Consequently other commentators have posited the existence of another letter. They... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 2:3

2:3 [letter] (f-7) Some refer this phrase to his first letter. In this case it must be translated, 'and I wrote the very (letter I did).' But I think touto auto can hardly mean that; and in the following words he refers it to the present time, when he was coming. It is evident that, if egrapsa (ver. 4) refers to his first letter, it must be translated 'I wrote;' but ekrina , 'I have judged,' (ver. 1) refers to the general determination of his mind. Egrapsa clearly often refers to what is... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 2:1-17

(b) 2:8-13. The Object and Results of the severe LetterThe Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter he wrote before. He then speaks of one man who has caused him pain, asking them to remit the punishment inflicted already and forgive him, and telling them that he had written also to ascertain the extent of their obedience, and that if they were willing to forgive now, so was he. He then relates his anxious desire to hear what had occurred on their... read more