2 CORINTHIANS 10:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete — the threat is explicit: Paul reserves *ekdikēsis*, vengeance/punishment, for those who remain *apeitheia*, disobedient. But first, the Corinthians must complete (*plēróō*) their *hupakoe*, obedience, to apostolic authority. The community's collective alignment determines the fate of dissidents.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 10:6
“And being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.” Here he alarmed these also, not those alone: 'for,' says he, 'we were waiting for you, that when by our exhortations and threatenings we have reformed you, and purged and separated you from their fellowship; then, when those only are left who are incurably diseased, we may visit with punishment, after we see that you have really separated from them. For even now indeed ye obey, but…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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