Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 7:8
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2 Corinthians7:8
8 For though I made you sorry with a letter , I do not repent , though I did repent : For I perceive that the same Epistle made you sorry, though it were but for a season .
The Apostle doubtless meaneth the former Epistle to this Church.
As to which, he saith, that although he was sometimes troubled, because (probably) he understood that some truly pious persons in this Church were troubled at it, as thinking themselves intended in the reprehensions of it; for which effect, or mistake, (he saith) he was once sorry, being troubled that he should do any thing to grieve them, whom he so affectionately loved, yet now he tells them he was not sorry.
And their sorrow was but a temporary sorrow; until they could reform those abuses, which they were made sensible of by that Epistle, and give the Apostle that wrote it just satisfaction.
Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 2.4.
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