2 CORINTHIANS 2:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;”
Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven — if there was anything to forgive — I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake — Paul announces his own forgiveness of the offender, aligning himself with the community's restoration. The forgiving is done 'in the sight of Christ' (enōpion Christou), situating it within eschatological reality where Christ witnesses all human relations.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 2:10
“To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also.” Do you see how again he assigns the second part to himself, showing them as beginning, himself following. This is the way to soften an exasperated, to compose a contentious spirit. Then lest he should make them careless, as though they were arbiters, and they should refuse forgiveness; he again constrains them unto this, saying, that himself also had forgiven him. “For what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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