Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Ye sorrowed to repentance. This sorrow led you to repentance, to mourning (ver7), to indignation and revenge (ver11). Repentance, therefore, is not merely a coming to one"s self again, as I will show directly by several proofs.