Moreover I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Here Paul is addressing people who apparently wanted to reform but were not making much of an effort in that direction. It was to spare them until they pulled themselves together that he went elsewhere for the time being. Paul did not want them to think that he despised them as unworthy. Once they realized that, they would mend their ways, and then the apostle would come to visit them. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
