ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 2 v9

OBEDIENT IN EVERYTHING. AMBROSIASTER: As far as anyone can tell, Paul was commending the Corinthians for their obedience in other respects. They had already put matters right in their church administration, and now he was asking them to be obedient in this matter as well. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

TESTING THEM. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul needs to see that the Corinthians are as obedient in restoring the sinner as they had been in punishing him. For the punishment might have proceeded in part from envy and malice, but if they now proceed to restore him in love, that will show that their obedience is pure. This is the test of true disciples: if they obey not only when ordered to do something but on their own as well. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 4.5.

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