2 CORINTHIANS 1:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.”
But as surely as God is faithful, our word to you is not 'Yes' and 'No' — Paul grounds his integrity in God's faithfulness (pistos). His word is not contradictory (ou ... nai kai ou); rather, it coheres with God's nature. When Paul speaks, God's own truthfulness backs the utterance.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:18
“But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not yea and nay.” He skillfully overturns a rising objection. For one might say, If after having promised, you have put off coming, and yea is not yea, and nay nay, with you, but what you say now you unsay afterwards, as you did in the case of this Journey: woe is unto us, if all this were the case in the Preaching too. Now lest they should have these thoughts and be troubled thereat, he says, “But as God is faithful, our word…
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