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2Co 7:2. Χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς, receive us) The sum of what is stated in this and in the tenth and following chapter.-ἡμᾶς) us, who love you and rejoice for your sake, receive also with favour our feelings, words, and actions.-οὐδένα ἠδικήσαμεν, οὐδένα ἐφθείραμεν, οὐδένα ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν) He lays down three things by gradation, the first of which he treats from 2Co 7:4, by repeating the very word ἀδικεῖν, at 2Co 7:12; the second from ch. 2Co 10:1, by repeating the very word φθείρειν, at ch. 2Co 11:3; the third from ch. 2Co 12:13, by repeating the very word πλεονεκτεῖν, ib. 2Co 12:17. I have marked however the beginning of the paragraph at 2Co 7:11 of the chapter quoted. The point of transition [to the discussion of πλεονεκτεῖν] may be referred to what goes before or to what follows after 2Co 7:11 [i.e., may be fixed in the context before or after 2Co 7:11]. The discussion of the clause itself, οὐδένα ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν begins at 2Co 7:13. This then is what he means to say: There is no reason, why you should not receive us [favourably: capiatis]: for we have injured no man, by our severity producing an absorbing grief [referring to ch. 2Co 2:7, “lest such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow”]; nay, we have not even made a man worse by a too haughty mode of acting: nay, we have not even defrauded any man for gain; in everything we have consulted you and your interests: comp. 2Co 7:9; and that too, without any reward. Whilst he declares, that he had been the occasion of no evil to the Corinthians, he intimates, that he had done them good, but very modestly keeps it as it were out of sight.