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Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
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A Public Act of Love
Commentators emphasize that Paul's call to "confirm" their love was a plea for a formal, public act by the entire church. Scholars like Ellicott and Gill note that the Greek word used implies a legal ratification, suggesting the restoration should be as official and collective as the initial discipline had been.
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2 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. The word translated here as 'confirm,' (kyrōsai), appears in …
To confirm (κυρωσα). First aorist active infinitive of old verb κυροω, to make valid, to ratify, from κυρος (head, authority). In …
19th Century
Anglican
That you would confirm your love.—The word for “confirm” (better, perhaps, ratify—compare Galatians 3:15) suggests the thought of…
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Instead of continuing or increasing the punishment, the Corinthians ought to rescue the man from inordinate grief and complete his reformation by f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore I beseech you Or exhort you:
that you would confirm your love towards him…
The apostle desires them to receive the person who had done wrong back into their communion, because he was aware of his fault and greatly afflicte…
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13th Century
Catholic
After giving the reason for his delay—namely, to avoid causing them pain—and after telling them of his sadness, the Apostle here addresses the one …
