For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?
All Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 2:2 Go To 2 Corinthians 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Who is he that should make me glad? The sense is to be gathered from the circumstances. He speaks of the Corinthian guilty of incest, whom he brought to sorrow and repentance, by excommunicating him in his former epistle, and now St. Paul rejoiceth at his conversion. (Witham)
The meaning of the apostle is, that if I had come to you in order to make you sorrowful, what pleasure could I have derived from your grief, since you are the only persons who can afford me any, the least comfort? What motives could have influenced me to undertake so disagreeable a mission? This is more fully explained in the following verse, which shows this to be the reason why he had written to them. (Calmet)
