2 CORINTHIANS 1:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.”
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth — Paul invokes God as witness to his motives, a solemn oath formula. The change in plans was not whimsy but pastoral wisdom: the Corinthian crisis required time to mature before his visit. Restraint becomes an act of love.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:23
What do you say, O blessed Paul? To spare them you came not to Corinth? Surely you present us with something of a contradiction. For a little above you said that you therefore came not, because you purpose not according to the flesh nor art your own master, but art led about every where by the authority of the Spirit, and set forth your afflictions. But here you say it was your own act that you came not, and not from the authority of the Spirit; for he says, “To spare you I…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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