2Cor 2:2 | JFB | STEP | 2. For-- proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness"). if I-- The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this ( ) is not my reason for not coming as I proposed; since I showed no scruple in causing "heaviness," or sorrow, in my Epistle (the first Epistle to the Corinthians). But I answer, If I be the one to cause you sorrow, it is not that I have any pleasure in doing so. Nay, my object was that he "who was made sorry by me" (namely, the Corinthians in general, ; but with tacit reference to the incestuous person in particular) should repent, and so "make me glad," as has actually taken place; "for ... who is he then that?" &c.

‏ 2 Corinthians 2:2

2. For--proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness").

if I--The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this (2Co 2:1) is not my reason for not coming as I proposed; since I showed no scruple in causing "heaviness," or sorrow, in my Epistle (the first Epistle to the Corinthians). But I answer, If I be the one to cause you sorrow, it is not that I have any pleasure in doing so. Nay, my object was that he "who was made sorry by me" (namely, the Corinthians in general, 2Co 2:3; but with tacit reference to the incestuous person in particular) should repent, and so "make me glad," as has actually taken place; "for ... who is he then that?" &c.