videns quod epistola ilia (etsi ad hofam) vos contristavit, nunc gaudeo, &c." So also Luther.
9. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance : for ye were made sor- ry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
He rejoiced, not in their grief, but that their grief led them to repentance. A parent, when he sees a child mourning over his sins, sincerely rejoices, however much he sympathizes in his grief Sorrowed unto repentance^ (ets /xeravotav,) i. e. change of mind, sometimes in the restricted sense of the word mind, (or purpose,) as in Heb. 12, 17; generally, in the com- prehensive sense of the word as including the principles and affections, the whole soul, or inward life. Matt. 3, 8. Luke 5, 32. Acts 5, 31. Repentance, therefore, in its religious sense, is not merely a change of purpose, but includes a change of heart which leads to a turning from sin with grief and hatred thereof unto God. Such is the repentance here intended, as appears from what follows. For (this shows they sorrowed unto repentance) they icere made sorry (they grieved) after a godly so7% {Kara. -^eoV,) i. e. in a manner agreeable to the mind and will of God ; so that God approved of their sorrow. He saw that it arose from right views of their past conduct. That, (tm, in order that,) as expressing the design of God in making their sorrow a sorrow unto repentance. Ye might receive damage by us i?i nothing, God had so ordered that Paul's letter, instead of producing any mjury, had resulted in the greatest spiritual good.
10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to sal- vation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
The connection is with the last clause. ' Ye were not in- jured by us, for the sorrow we occasioned worked repent- ance.' Sorrow in itself is not repentance ; neither is remorse, nor self-condemnation, nor self-loathing, nor external reforma- tion. These all are its attendants or consequences ; but re- pentance itself (^cTtti/ota) is a turning from sin to holiness, from a state of sin to a holv state. It is a real change of heart. It