2 Corinzi 2:2

2 Perché, se io vi contristo, chi sarà dunque colui che mi rallegrerà, se non colui che sarà stato da me contristato?

2 Corinzi 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 Corinzi 2:2 In-Context

1 Io avevo dunque meco stesso determinato di non venire a voi per rattristarvi una seconda volta.

2 Perché, se io vi contristo, chi sarà dunque colui che mi rallegrerà, se non colui che sarà stato da me contristato?

3 E vi ho scritto a quel modo onde, al mio arrivo, io non abbia tristezza da coloro dai quali dovrei avere allegrezza; avendo di voi tutti fiducia che la mia allegrezza è l’allegrezza di tutti voi.

4 Poiché in grande afflizione ed in angoscia di cuore vi scrissi con molte lagrime, non già perché foste contristati, ma perché conosceste l’amore che nutro abbondantissimo per voi.

5 Or se qualcuno ha cagionato tristezza, egli non ha contristato me, ma, in parte, per non esagerare, voi tutti.