2 Corinthians 2:4

2 Corinthians 2:4

2 For if I make you ^asorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

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3 And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, ^aI should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, ^bhaving confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much¹ affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, ^anot that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

5 But ^aif anyone has caused grief, he has not ^bgrieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.

6 This punishment which was inflicted ^aby the majority is sufficient for such a man,

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Anguish (sunoxhv). Ablative case after ek (out of). Old word from sunexw, to hold together. So contraction of heart (Cicero, contractio animi), a spiritual angina pectoris. In N.T. only here and Luke 21:25.

With many tears (dia pollwn dakruwn). He dictated that letter "through tears" (accompanied by tears). Paul was a man of heart. He writes to the Philippians with weeping (klaiwn) over the enemies of the Cross of Christ (Philippians 3:18). He twice mentions his tears in his speech at Miletus (Acts 20:19-31).

But that ye might know the love (alla thn agaphn ina gnwte). Proleptic position of agaphn and ingressive second aorist active subjunctive gnwte, come to know.

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2 Corinthians 2:4

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