But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He declares that he had not come to them through fear of causing sadness to himself and to them.
ii. He exhorts them (ver6) to Revelation -admit the fornicator, on his repentance, who had been excommunicated by him (1Cor. v.), and (ver10) he absolves him from the sentence of excommunication and from his penance.
iii. He tells them (ver14) that he sheds everywhere a good odour of Christ, which is life to the good and faithful, and death to the evil and unbelieving.