ACC ~ Galatians 4 v20b

HIS PRESENT PERPLEXITY INTENSIFIED BY HIS ABSENCE. JEROME: “I used coaxing words to you just now, … but for the sake of that love which prevents me from allowing my sons to perish and stray forever I wish that I were now present—if the bonds of my ministry did not prevent me—and change my coaxing tone to one of castigation. It is not because of fickleness that I am now coaxing, now irate. I am impelled to speak by love, by grief, by diverse emotions.” EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.4.20.