{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1860","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: By \"you all\" Paul means the saints among the Corinthians. For they were divided into those who were saints and those who were not, but it is the former he is addressing here.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.\"</p><p>Having first praised them as feeling joy and sorrow for the same things as himself, he then strikes into the subject of this person, having said first, \"my joy is the joy of you all.\" But if my joy is the joy of you all, need is that you should also now feel pleasure with me, as ye then were pained with me: for both in that ye were made sorry, ye made me glad; and now in that ye rejoice, (if as I suppose ye shall feel pleasure,) ye will do the same.</p><p>I know, he saith, that ye shared in my anger and indignation against him that had committed fornication, and that what had taken place grieved in part all of you. And therefore said I \"in part,\" not as though ye were less hurt than I, but that I might not weigh down him that had committed fornication. He did not then grieve me only but you also equally, even though to spare him I said, \"in part.\" Seest thou how at once he moderated their anger, by declaring that they shared also in his indignation.</p><p>\"Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many.\"</p><p>And he saith not \"to him that hath committed fornication,\" but here again \"to such a one,\" as also in the former Epistle. Not however for the same reason; but there out of shame, here out of mercy. Wherefore he no where subsequently so much as mentions the crime; for it was time now to excuse.<br/><i>— Homily 4 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: But if ye shall have forgiven any, so (do) I; for I, too, if I have forgiven ought, have forgiven in the person of Christ, lest we be overreached by Satan, since we are not ignorant of his injections.\" What (reference) is understood here to the fornicator? what to the contaminator of his father's bed? what to the Christian who had overstepped the shamelessness of heathens?-since, of course, he would have absolved by a special pardon one whom he had condemned by a special anger.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4544032ba352c9fc933f55809b0819f8b64d650fd15426d6a40af47d4079693e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1860,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5fb4eb4c5558760dd980d0862646c6dab6aec9d4035dd378de6951537b335512","translator":null,"work":null}