2 CORINTHIANS 10:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.”
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters — Paul acknowledges the *phobos*, fear, his letters inspire. Yet his written word carries apostolic *dynamis*, power, because it proceeds from *pneuma*, Spirit. The letter's authority surpasses mere rhetoric.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 10:9
“But that I may not seem as if I would terrify you: for his letters, say they, are weighty and strong: but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account. Let such a one reckon this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.” What he says is this: 'I could boast indeed, but that they may not say the same things again, to wit, that I boast in my letters, and am contemptible when present, I will say nothing…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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