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2Co_7:14 f. Polite statement of the reason why the joy of Titus had rejoiced him so greatl.
εἴ τι αὐτῷ ὑπὲρ ὑμ . κεκαυχ .] Comp. 2Co_9:2. Who could deny that Paul, both alone, of which he is thinking here, and in company with Timothy (at which ἡ καύχησις ἡμῶν then glances), had justly boasted before Titus (coram Tito) to the advantage of the Corinthians ( ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν , comp. 2Co_9:2)? See 1Co_1:4 ff. He had, in fact, founded the church and laboured so long in it, and they were in his heart, 2Co_7:3.
οὐ κατῃσχύνθην ] This κατῃσχ . would have taken place, if Titus had experienced among you an opposite state of things, contradicting the truth of my καύχησις . But when he came to you: διὰ τῶν ἔργων ἐδείξατέ μου τὰ ῥήματα , Chrysosto.
ἀλλʼ ὡς πάντα κ . τ . λ .] Opposite of οὐ κατῃσχ .: “as we have spoken everything truly to you, our boasting before Titus has also become truth.” No doubt Paul is here making a passing allusion to the attack on his veracity (comp. 2Co_1:17 ff.), and that in such a way as emphatically to confront it with, first, what was said by him ( πάντα … ἡ καύχησις ἡμῶν ), and then the persons to whom he spoke ( ὑμῖν … ἡ ἐπὶ Τίτου ). Thus the first, and next to it the last, place in the arrangement of the sentence has the emphasis (Kühner, II. p. 625).
πάντα ] quite general: we have lied to you in nothing. Chrysostom and Billroth think that it applies to all the good, which Paul had said of Titus to the Corinthians,—a purely arbitrary view, not to be guessed by any reade.
ἐν ἀληθείᾳ ] i.e. truthfully. Comp. Col_1:6; Joh_17:19; Pind. Ol. vii. 127. The adverbial use is genuine Greek (Matthiae, p. 1342; Bernhardy, p. 211), not a Hebraism (Rückert). See on Joh_17:19.
ἐλαλήσαμεν ] locuti sumus, quite general, and not to be limited, at variance with the context, to doctrine (Emmerling, Flatt, Hofmann, and others, following Theodoret).
ἐπὶ Τίτου ] coram Tito. See Schaefer, Melet. p. 105; Fritzsche, Quaest. Luc. p. 139.
ἐγενήθη ] se praestitit; it has shown itself as truth by experience. Comp. 2Co_1:19; Rom_3:4; Rom_7:13. Often so also in classic writers.