For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
For if I make you sorry. Although I made you sorry by rebuking you in my First Epistle, yet I am now made glad with you in seeing the repentance and sorrow, both of yourselves and the fornicator. The "for if" is not causal but explanatory.
Who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? He who is grieved and made penitent by my reproof is the one who most makes me glad, i.e, the incestuous person whom I excommunicated ( 1 Corinthians 1:5).
