2 CORINTHIANS 6:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.”
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened our hearts wide — parrhēsia (frank speech) recurs. Paul's stoma (mouth) has opened wide; his kardia (heart) is expanded. The vulnerability is total: apostle and community are interconnected affectively.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:11
Having detailed his own trials and afflictions, for “in patience,” says he, “in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, (v. 4, 5.) in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumult, in labors, in watchings;” and having shown that the thing was a great good, for “as sorrowful,” says he, “yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things;” 2 Corinthians 6:10 and having called those things “armor,” for “as chastened,” says he, “and…
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