{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1798","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul wanted the Corinthians to understand that his love for them was beneficial, not harmful.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.\" Quickly [is it done], and by an easy method. But still, not even so did he rid them of those charges. For he neither said, \"ye are not weak,\" nor yet, \"ye are strong;\" but, \"I love you,\" which very greatly aggravated the accusation against them. For the not receiving from them, because they felt it an exceeding grievance, was a proof of special love toward them. So he acted in two contrary ways out of love; he both did receive, and did not receive: but this contrariety was on account of the disposition of the givers. And he did not say, \"I therefore do not take of you, because I exceedingly love you,\" for this would have contained an accusation of their weakness and have thrown them into distress; but he turned what he said to another reason. What then is this?<br/><i>— Homily 23 on 2 Corinthians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f481abb8f28a0c4c473b7a9b96c93f19d7999b310325794a9bd7927e487c948e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1798,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"de084178840017b9b57c47ea85587f4b3ee56c711556af61f962f361dc1dcaba","translator":null,"work":null}