Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 13:10

10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present, I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction .

The Apostle here lets them know with how much tenderness he dealt with them; and whereas they might have charged him with sharpness in his Letters, he assures them, that he therefore had so wrote, that he might prevent sharper dealings with them when he should come to them; by their hearkening to the admonitions of his Letter; For otherwise he tells them, that after he came he must deal more sharply with them in the execution of that power with which Christ had betrusted him. Yet he further tells them, that that power was for their good, not for their harm; for their edification, not for their destruction; (which is the same with what he had said, Chap. 10.8. and in the Verse immediately preceding.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 letter] Cor. 4.21. [illegible: 1 word]. 2.3. & [illegible: 1 letter].2 & 12. [illegible: 2 letters] 11.