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What do you want? Will I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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Commentators unanimously agree that Paul places the responsibility for his approach squarely on the Corinthians. He gives them a choice: if they correct their behavior and repent of their pride, he will come as a gentle father. If they persist in sin, he will be forced to come as a stern corrector. As Charles Ellicott notes, this dynamic reflects how God often deals with His children, giving them the opportunity to repent before discipline is enacted.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What will ye? It depends on yourselves how I will come. If you lay aside your contentions and strife; if you administer discipline as you …
With a rod (εν ραβδω). The so-called instrumental use of εν like the Hebrew (1 Samuel 17:43). The shepherd leaned on h…
19th Century
Anglican
What will ye?—I give you a choice. I am coming to you as a father in any case. But shall I come as a father comes with a …
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Now concerning his own proposed trip to Corinth, Paul addresses some in the church who had acted arrogantly as though he were not going to come and…
16th Century
Protestant
What will you? The person who divided the Epistles into chapters should have made this the beginning of the fifth chapter. For ha…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What will you ? &c.] Or "how will you, that I should come unto you?" as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read it: since the ap…
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In reproving sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn are likely to reform.
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13th Century
Catholic
After censuring the Corinthians for rashly judging and presumptuously despising the apostles, the Apostle now begins to correct them. He does this …
