2 Coríntios 2:2

2 Pois, se os entristeço, quem me alegrará senão vocês, a quem tenho entristecido?

2 Coríntios 2:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I make you sorry
That is, should he come among them, and be the means of fresh grief and sorrow:

who is he then that maketh me glad?
such was his love and affection for them, and sympathy with them, that should they be grieved, he should grieve also; they were the only persons he could take any delight in at Corinth; wherefore should they be in heaviness, he would be so too, and then what pleasure would he have in being among them? since not a man of them would be in a condition and capacity to make him cheerful:

but the same which is made sorry by me.
The Ethiopic version without any authority reads this clause, "except he whom I have made glad"; but the apostle is to be understood either of some particular man, the incestuous person, who had been made sorry, by that awful punishment of being delivered up to Satan, inflicted on him; or else the singular number being put for the plural collectively, is to be understood of all the members of the church at Corinth, who had been greatly grieved by the sharp reproofs he had given them; and therefore unless this trouble was removed, he could not expect to have much comfort and pleasure with them.

2 Coríntios 2:2 In-Context

1 Por isso resolvi não fazer outra visita que causasse tristeza a vocês.

2 Pois, se os entristeço, quem me alegrará senão vocês, a quem tenho entristecido?

3 Escrevi como escrevi para que, quando eu for, não seja entristecido por aqueles que deveriam alegrar-me. Estava confiante em que todos vocês compartilhariam da minha alegria.

4 Pois eu escrevi com grande aflição e angústia de coração, e com muitas lágrimas, não para entristecê-los, mas para que soubessem como é profundo o meu amor por vocês.

5 Se um de vocês tem causado tristeza, não a tem causado apenas a mim, mas também, em parte, para eu não ser demasiadamente severo com todos vocês.