Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 7:9 - 7:9

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Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 7:9 - 7:9


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Now I rejoice (nun chairō). Now that Titus has come and told him the good news from Corinth (2Co 2:12.). This was the occasion of the noble outburst in 2:12-6:10.

Unto repentance (eis metanoian). Note the sharp difference here between “sorrow” (lupē) which is merely another form of metamelomai (regret, remorse) and “repentance” (metanoia) or change of mind and life. It is a linguistic and theological tragedy that we have to go on using “repentance” for metanoia. But observe that the “sorrow” has led to “repentance” and was not Itself the repentance.

After a godly sort (kata theon). In God’s way. “God’s way as opposed to man’s way and the devil’s way” (Plummer). It was not mere sorrow, but a change in their attitude that counted.

That ye might suffer loss by us in nothing (hina en mēdeni zēmiōthēte ex humōn). Purpose clause with hina and first aorist passive subjunctive of zēmioō, old verb to suffer damage. See Mat 16:26. This was God’s intention and so he overruled their sorrow to good.