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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 2
Saints should love and forgive one another—They always triumph in
Christ.
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1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I
came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having
aconfidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of
you all.
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4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
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7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather
to aforgive him, and comfort him, lest
perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also did I
awrite, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be
bobedient in all things.
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10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive
alsoa: for if I forgave any thing,
to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in
the aperson of
Christa;
11 Lest aSatan should get an
advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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10a To whom ye forgive any thing, I
forgive also ... in the person of Christ Now the Gospel of
Jesus Christ is that of repentance unto forgiveness. The entire intent is that
man be forgiven and return unto God. Thus is the arms of mercy extented out
to all who come unto Christ. For the atonement of Christ has the power to
remove sin and extent forgiveness and the intent is not to punish those who
but do not turn unto Christ in the spirit and purpose of repentance. It is
unto us to forgive all men and to leave to God to forgive whom he will. But
here Paul states that 'whom we forgive any thing' the same is forgiven by
Christ's officiator (Paul in this case), and he does so in the person of
Christ. Thus Christ does forgive all who sincerely repents and comes unto
him in the form of his officers of the chruch who rule in Christ's name.
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12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to
preach Christ's gospel, and a adoor was opened unto
me of the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
14 Now thanks be unto God, which always
causeth us to atriumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the
savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
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15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savour of
death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who
is asufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which
acorrupt the bword of God: but as of
csincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
Christ.
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