2 CORINTHIANS 1:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?”
When I planned this, did I do so lightly? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner (kata sarkas, according to the flesh), so that in the same breath I say, 'Yes, yes' and 'No, no'? — the critics apparently accused Paul of vacillation and worldly pragmatism. Kata sarkas suggests decisions driven by human desire and expediency rather than Spirit-guidance. Paul denies such inconsistency.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:17
“And by you to pass into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judæa. When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness?” Here in what follows, he directly does away with the charge arising out of his delay and absence. For what he says is of this nature. “I was minded to come unto you.” 'Wherefore then did I not come? Is it as light-minded and changeable?' for this is, “did I show fickleness?” By no…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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