And I wrote this same unto you, 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.
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Gill's Exposition
And I wrote this same unto you,.... Not what he had written in the preceding verse, or in Co2 1:23, where he says, that his not coming to them as yet was to spare them; but what he had written to them…
Barnes' Notes
And I wrote this same unto you - The words “this same” (τοῦτο αὐτὸ (touto auto) refer to what he had written to them in the former Epistle, particularly to what he had written in regard to the…
Adam Clarke
And I wrote this same unto you - This I particularly marked in my first epistle to you; earnestly desiring your reformation, lest, if I came before this had taken place, I must have come with a rod,…
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, Co2…
Cambridge Bible
And I wrote this same unto you Either (1) the announcement in 1Co 16:7 of the Apostle's change of purpose, or (2) the rebukes in the former Epistle that grieved them, especially the passage in ch. 5…
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