{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1858","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>: The purification of the people is the apostle's joy.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And I wrote this very thing unto you.\"</p><p>What? That for this cause I came not, to spare you. When wrote he? In the former Epistle when he said, \"I do not wish to see you now by the way?\" I think not; but in this Epistle when he said, \"Lest when I come again, my God should humble me before you.\" I have written then towards the end this same, saith he, \"lest when I come, my God will humble me, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore.\"</p><p>But why didst thou write? \"Lest when I came I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all?\" For whereas he said he was made glad by their sorrow, and this was too arrogant and harsh, again he gave it a different turn and softened it by what he subjoined. For, he saith, I therefore wrote unto you before, that I might not with anguish find you unreformed; and I said this, \"lest I should have sorrow,\" out of regard not to my own interest but yours. For I know that if ye see me rejoicing ye rejoice, and if ye behold me sad ye are sad.<br/><i>— Homily 4 on 2 Corinthians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"083699c374b3acc4fff04ccf6630790135783ebf56b2cab05842fe73d7b944e2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1858,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7fad33619afe6aedaaa3b2fcc8ac3bce2e3aa2de3407809d48db18a78513cf1f","translator":null,"work":null}