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**Verse 1**
*In heaviness;* in sadness.

**Verse 2**
He wished to regard his spiritual children as the source of joy and happiness to him, and accordingly he did not wish to be the means of giving pain to them.

**Verse 3**
*That my joy is the joy of you all,* that my enjoyment consists in promoting and witnessing yours.

**Verse 4**
*I wrote unto you;* referring to his former Epistle.

**Verse 5**
It is generally supposed that the individual whose case is considered in [1 Corinthians 5:1-13](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/5/1-13): is referred to in this passage. ([2 Corinthians 2:5-8](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/2/5-8).) The meaning of this verse is not clear. The idea may be, that the pain which that case had given the apostle was only a partial and temporary interruption to the joy and satisfaction which the church at Corinth had generally afforded him.

**Verse 6**
It would seem that Paul had learned, perhaps through Titus, (see [2 Corinthians 7:5-7](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/7/5-7),) that the church had exercised towards this offending member the discipline which he had recommended in the former Epistle.

**Verse 7**
*Ye ought rather to forgive him;* that is, ye ought now to forgive him.

**Verse 8**
*Confirm;* restore and establish.

**Verse 11**
*Get an advantage;* by retaining in his kingdom one, who, being penitent, ought now to be restored to the kingdom of Christ. (Compare [1 Corinthians 5:5](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/5/5).)

**Verse 12**
Troas was on the coast near the north-eastern corner of the Egean Sea, on the way from Ephesus to Macedonia.

**Verse 13**
*I had no rest in my spirit.* He felt so solicitous to hear from Corinth that he could not continue in his work at Troas, although a favorable opportunity for effort seemed to be open there before him. He accordingly went on into Macedonia, hoping to find Titus there.

**Verse 14**
*In every place;* that is, wherever we go. Though he left a favorable opening for usefulness in Troas he found that he was made the instrument of disseminating the knowledge of God in Macedonia.

**Verse 15**
*We are unto God a sweet savor;* our labors and instrumentality are acceptable to God.

**Verse 16**
*The savor of death unto death;* by being the means of greatly aggravating their sin. For the guilt and condemnation of the sinner is in proportion to the light and the privileges which he enjoys.--*For these things;* for such high responsibilities.

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