2 Korinther 10:6

6 und bereit stehen, allen Ungehorsam zu rächen, wenn euer Gehorsam erfüllt sein wird.

2 Korinther 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 10:6

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience
Not with the temporal sword, as the civil magistrate, but with the spiritual one; meaning either censures and excommunication, which a faithful minister of the Gospel, with the suffrage of the church, has at hand, and a power to make use of, for the reclaiming of disobedient persons; or rather that extraordinary power which was peculiar to the apostles, of inflicting punishments on delinquents, such as what was exercised by Peter upon Ananias and Sapphira, by the Apostle Paul on Elymas the sorcerer, the incestuous person, and Hymenaeus and Philetus, and which still continued with him; it was ready at hand, he could exercise it whenever he pleased, he only waited a proper time:

when your obedience is fulfilled:
till they were thoroughly reformed from the several abuses, both in doctrine and practice, they had fallen into, and were brought into a better order and decorum, and appeared to have been in all things obedient to the directions he had given; being unwilling, as yet, to use the awful authority he had from Christ, lest any of the dear children of God, who were capable of being restored by gentler methods, should suffer with the refractory and incorrigible.

2 Korinther 10:6 In-Context

4 denn die Waffen unseres Kampfes sind nicht fleischlich, sondern göttlich mächtig zur Zerstörung von Festungen;

5 indem wir Vernunftschlüsse zerstören und jede Höhe, die sich erhebt wider die Erkenntnis Gottes, und jeden Gedanken gefangen nehmen unter den Gehorsam des Christus,

6 und bereit stehen, allen Ungehorsam zu rächen, wenn euer Gehorsam erfüllt sein wird.

7 Sehet ihr auf das, was vor Augen ist? Wenn jemand sich selbst zutraut, daß er Christi sei, so denke er dies wiederum bei sich selbst, daß, gleichwie er Christi ist, also auch wir.

8 Denn falls ich mich auch etwas mehr über unsere Gewalt rühmen wollte, die uns der Herr zur Auferbauung und nicht zu eurer Zerstörung gegeben hat, so werde ich nicht zu Schanden werden,