2 Corinthians 1:24 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:24

“Not for that we have lordship over your faith.” That is, I did not therefore say, “To spare you I came not,” as lording it over you. Again, he said not you, but “your faith,” which was at once gentler and truer. For him that has no mind to believe, who has power to compel? “But are helpers of your joy.” For since, says he, your joy is ours, I came not, that I might not plunge you into sorrow and increase my own despondency; but I stayed away that you being reformed by the…