2 Corinzi 7:9

9 ora mi rallegro, non perché siete stati contristati, ma perché siete stati contristati a ravvedimento; poiché siete stati contristati secondo Iddio, onde non aveste a ricevere alcun danno da noi.

2 Corinzi 7:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:9

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry
Their grief and sorrow, as a natural passion, was no matter or cause of joy to him; nor was this what he sought after, being what he could take no real pleasure in; for so far as that was a pain to them, it was a pain to him:

but that ye sorrowed to repentance;
their sorrow issued in true evangelical repentance, and this was the ground of his rejoicing; for as there is joy in heaven among the angels, at the repentance of a sinner, so there is joy in the church below, among the saints and ministers of the Gospel, when either sinners are brought in, or backsliders returned by repentance:

for ye were made sorry after a godly sort;
what gave him so much joy and satisfaction was, that their sorrow was of the right sort; it was a godly sorrow, they sorrowed after; or according to God, according to the will of God, and for sin, as it was committed against him; it was a sorrow that God wrought in them:

that ye might receive damage by us in nothing;
what added to his pleasure was, that his writing to them, and the effect it produced, had not been in the least detrimental to them; things had worked so kindly, and this sorrow had wrought in such a manner, that they were not hurt in their souls, but profited; nor in their church state, they had not lost one member by it; nay, the offender himself, which was the occasion of all this trouble, was recovered and restored by these means.

2 Corinzi 7:9 In-Context

7 e non soltanto con la venuta di lui, ma anche con la consolazione da lui provata a vostro riguardo. Egli ci ha raccontato la vostra bramosia di noi, il vostro pianto, il vostro zelo per me; ond’io mi son più che mai rallegrato.

8 Poiché, quand’anche io v’abbia contristati con la mia epistola, non me ne rincresce; e se pur ne ho provato rincrescimento (poiché vedo che quella epistola, quantunque per un breve tempo, vi ha contristati),

9 ora mi rallegro, non perché siete stati contristati, ma perché siete stati contristati a ravvedimento; poiché siete stati contristati secondo Iddio, onde non aveste a ricevere alcun danno da noi.

10 Poiché, la tristezza secondo Dio produce un ravvedimento che mena alla salvezza, e del quale non c’è mai da pentirsi; ma la tristezza del mondo produce la morte.

11 Infatti, questo essere stati contristati secondo Iddio, vedete quanta premura ha prodotto in voi! Anzi, quanta giustificazione, quanto sdegno, quanto timore, quanta bramosia, quanto zelo, qual punizione! In ogni maniera avete dimostrato d’esser puri in quest’affare.