liis paternal gentleness, he all but deprecates [his having caused them sorrow]. — fiXenu, I perceive) from the fact itself. — si xa/, although) in this clause, or/ i] scricroX rj exemj si xai rrpbg w pav eXv- ‘ffriazv u/4«g, the words si xa i should have a comma either before and after them, or else neither before nor after them. The apostle explains the reason, why he does not repent of having caused sorrow to the Corinthians. The letter, he says, has made you sad only for a time, or rather not even for a time. Whence also Chrysostom in his exposition repeats the words, on rrpbg upav sXwrrptssv vfjoug, in such a way as to omit si xa/. The particle si xa/, put absolutely, expresses much feeling [Yalde morata est. See Append.] Sextus cr pbg dcrpoXoyov, says, Ms0’ i)/j,epav ovd'sv tojv 'TrposiprifLsvwv dvvarov s<fn upu<sr\iLSH>\)<$bai , /xova d's, si xa/ apa , rag rou jjX/ou yuv^sig. By day none of the things previously mentioned can possibly be observed , but only the motions of the sun , if indeed even those ; wherein si xa/' upa, as Devarius properly remarks, takes away the concession , that had been made , namely, that the motions of the sun only can be observed ; if only , says he, viz., even the motions of the sun can be observed. See Devar. on the Gr. particles, in the instance, si xa/, also in the case of aXX’ si*sp and dxx’ si apa , and Budaei Comm. L. Gr. f. 1390, ed. 1556, and, if you please, my notes on Gregor. Neocaes. Paneg., p. 174, on si put absolutely. Luther very appropriately translates it Vielleicht. Others, without observing the force of the particle, have wondrously tortured this passage, which is most full of the characteristic ffoe [See Append.] of the apostle. The ovd's rrpbg upav. Gal. ii. 5, is a kindred phraseology.
9. NlIv xa‘Pui I now 'rejoice) The now forms an epitasis ; 1 not only do I not repent , that you had brief sorrow , but I even rejoice , because it has proved salutary to you. — sig [Asravoiuv, unto repen- tance) Unto here determines the kind of sorrow. — xard ®sbv , [after a godly manner] according to God) according to here signifies the feeling of the mind, having regard to and following God. There is no sorrow with God ; but the sorrow of peni- tents renders the mind conformable to God ; comp, xard, accord- ing to , Rom. xiv. 22 ; Col. ii. 8 ; 1 Pet. iv. 6. So in Pliilostr.
1 i.e. He had already said, I rejoiced, in ver. 7 : and here in ver. 9, now , added to the same word I rejoice , augments its force. See Append. — Ed.