2 CORINTHIANS 6:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.”
We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us — Paul denies emotional distance (stenochōrei, narrowed affection). The problem is the Corinthians' coldness, not his. He is open; they must reciprocate.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:12
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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