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Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 7:9

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CORINTHIANS 7 This chapter begins with an inference deduced, from what is said in the latter part of the foregoing chapter, engaging to holiness of heart and life, in opposition to filthiness of flesh and spirit, 2 Corinthians 7:1 and the apostle, in order to prevail upon the Corinthians kindly to receive his exhortations, observes his own conduct, and that of his fellow...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry,.... Their grief and sorrow, as a natural passion, was no matter or cause of joy to him; nor was this what he sought after, being what he could take no real pleasure in; for so far as that was a pain to them, it was a pain to him: but that ye sorrowed to repentance; their sorrow issued in true evangelical repentance, and this was the ground of his...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter begins with an exhortation to progressive holiness and a due regard to the ministers of the gospel, ver. 1-4. Then the apostle returns from a long digression to speak further of the affair concerning the incestuous person, and tells them what comfort he received in his distress about that matter, upon his meeting with Titus (ver. 5-7), and how re rejoiced in their repentance, with...