2 Corinthians 7:2-4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Receive us With that affection which is due to the faithful servants of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by ill- designing persons to the contrary; we have wronged Or injured; no man In his person. We have corrupted no man In his principles. We have defrauded no man Of his property. In this he intimates, likewise, the good he had done them, but with the utmost modesty, as it were, not looking on it. I speak not this to condemn you As if I accused you of charging me with any of these crimes, but to vindicate myself from the imputations of the false apostles; for I have said before, &c. I am so far from thinking so unkindly of you; that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you That is, I could rejoice to spend all my days with you. Great is my boldness, &c. As if he had said, As an argument of my love, I deal very freely with you upon all occasions; Great is my glorying of you Or my boasting concerning you. He could, with confidence, boast of them, after the account which Titus brought him of their obedience and good dispositions. I am filled with comfort On your account. I am exceeding joyful, &c. My joy for your obedience overbalances the pain occasioned by my affliction.