“But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.”
So I decided that I would not make another painful visit to you — the 'painful letter' mentioned in vv3-9 preceded this decision. A visit in anger would only deepen wounds. Paul prioritizes the Corinthians' emotional welfare over his own pastoral presence.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 2:1
“But I determined for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow.” The expression “again” proves that he had already been made sorry from thence, and while he seems to be speaking in his own defense he covertly rebukes them. Now if they had both already made him sorry and were about again to make him sorry, consider how great the displeasure was likely to be. But he says not thus, 'You made me sorry,' but turns the expression differently yet implying the very same…
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