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2Co 10:7. Τὰ κατὰ πρόσωπον βλώπετε, do you look on the things according to the face [outward appearance]) The error of the Corinthians is noticed and refuted generally, 2Co 10:7-9 : then, having been specially detailed, it is specially refuted, 2Co 10:10-11. Therefore [2Co 10:7] let him think this [2Co 10:11], is repeated.-κατὰ πρόσωπον, after the face [outward appearance]) 2Co 10:1. In antithesis to, by letters, 2Co 10:9. He says, I can act with severity face to face [as well as by letters: πρόσωπον being opposed to ἐπιστολῶν].-εἴ τις) if any one of you.-πέποιθεν) πεποίθησις and πέποιθα, have been hitherto variously used by Paul in this epistle, 2Co 10:2, etc.-ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ, of himself) before he is in a more severe manner convinced of it by us. The Christian by his own feelings can measure his brother.-καθὼς, even as) The condescension of Paul, inasmuch as he merely demands an equal place with those, whom he had begotten by the Gospel; for he himself must previously have belonged to Christ, or been a Christian, by whom another was brought to belong to Christ. This was a cause [motive] for modesty [a modest feeling towards Paul] in the case of the Corinthians.-καὶ ἡμεῖς, we also) A fact which such a man [one that trusts he belongs to Christ] will be able to realize by experience.