2 CORINTHIANS 10:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.”
I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think we live by the standards of this world — Paul invokes the threat of his *physical presence* and forthcoming *parrēsia*, boldness/frankness. His opponents *logidzomai*, reckon/evaluate, Paul *kata sárka*, according to flesh, by *worldly standards*. But Paul operates *kata pneuma*, according to Spirit.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 10:2
Having completed, in such sort as behooved his discourse of almsgiving, and having shown that he loves them more than he is loved, and having recounted the circumstances of his patience and trials, he now opportunely enters upon points involving more of reproof, making allusion to the false apostles, and concluding his discourse with more disagreeable matter, and with commendations of himself. For he makes this his business also throughout the Epistle. Which also perceiving,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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