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2 Corinthians 2:10 — King James Version← Study notes

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;


2 Corinthians 2:10Greek Interlinear

Greek · 2 Corinthians 2:1018 words
GreekMeaning
To whomeverrelative pronounG3739
δέde
nowwordG1161
τιti
anythingpronounG5100
χαρίζεσθεcharizesthe
you forgiveverbG5483
κἀγώkagō
(and, even, even sopronounG2504
καὶkai
andadverbG2532
γὰρgar
forwordG1063
ἐγὼegō
I also myselfpronounG1473
ho
who / whichrelative pronounG3739
κεχάρισμαιkecharismai
I have forgivenverbG5483
εἴei
ifwordG1487
τιti
anythingpronounG5100
κεχάρισμαιkecharismai
I have forgivenverbG5483
δι’di’
it is forprepositionG1223
ὑμᾶςhymas
youpronounG4771
ἐνen
inprepositionG1722
προσώπῳprosōpō
the presencenounG4383
ΧριστοῦChristou
of ChristnounG5547
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

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,…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 4 on Second Corinthians
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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