Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 13:2

2 I told you before, and foretel you, as if I were present the second time , and being absent, now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other , that if I come again, I will not spare .

I told you in my former Epistle, and now, (though I be yet absent) I tell you afore-hand, as though I were present amongst you.

I write this for the sake of those who have already sinned scandalously; and not for theirs only, but for the sake of others, who may have temptations so to offend.

That if I do come, and find any such who walk in courses of [illegible: 1 letter]in, and are hardned in them, so as all that I have said, will not bring them to remorse and reformation: I will not spare them, either as to sharp reprehensions, or as to Ecclesiastical Censures; according to the trust which Christ hath reposed in me. Some extend this further, to a power of inflicting bod[illegible: 1 letter]ly pains; but it is not clear that the Apostles were intrusted with any such power ordinarily, (though sometimes they did exert such a power; as appeareth, both from the instances of Ananias and Saphira Acts 5. and that of Elimas Acts 13.8, 9, 10.)

Marginal references: Chap. 12.21.; Chap. 1.23.