Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Did I shew fickleness? (mhti ara th elafriai). An indignant negative answer is called for by mhti. The instrumental case of elafriai is regular after exrhsamhn from xraomai, to use. Elafria is a late word for levity from the old adjective, elafrov, light, agile (II Corinthians 10:17; Matthew 11:30). Here only in N.T.
Purpose (bouleuomai). Paul raises the question of fickleness about any of his plans.
Yea yea (Nai nai)
—nay nay (ou ou). See a similar repetition in Matthew 5:37. It is plain in James 5:12 where "the yea" is "yea" and "the nay" is "nay." That seems to be Paul's meaning here, "that the Yea may be yea and the Nay may be nay."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 1:17:
2 Corinthians 13:2
Hebrews 13:18
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