Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If any (ei tiv). Scholars disagree whether Paul refers to I Corinthians 5:1, where he also employs tis, toioutov, and Satanav as here, or to the ringleader of the opposition to him. Either view is possible. In both cases Paul shows delicacy of feeling by not mentioning the name.
But in part (alla apo merouv). "But to some extent to you all." The whole Corinthian Church has been injured in part by this man's wrongdoing. There is a parenthesis (
that I press not too heavily, ina mh epibarw) that interrupts the flow of ideas. Epibarew, to put a burden on (epi, barov), is a late word, only in Paul in N.T. (here and I Thessalonians 2:9; II Thessalonians 3:8). He does not wish to give pain by too severe language.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 2:5:
Romans 11:25
1 Corinthians 5:5
1 Thessalonians 2:9
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