Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For—proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness").
if I—The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this (II Corinthians 2:1) 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, II Corinthians 2:3; 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?" etc.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 2:2:
2 Corinthians 1:24
2 Corinthians 2:1
2 Corinthians 2:3
2 Corinthians 2:4
2 Corinthians 2:4
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