2 Corinthians 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Sufficient to such a man, &c.— "Sufficient to such a one, who has here been the aggressor, but is now a penitent, is this rebuke and censure, which he has already suffered by many, and, indeed, by the whole body of your society, which has shewn so wise and pious a readiness to pursue the directions that I gave for animadverting upon him; and bringing him, through grace, to repentance." It is observable, how tenderly St. Paul deals with the Corinthians in this epistle; for though he treats of the fornicator from the 5th to the 10th verse, inclusively, yet he never mentions him under that, or any other painful title, but in the soft terms of any one, or such a one. Instead of this punishment, &c. some read, this rebuke from the majority.

2 Corinthians 2:6

6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment,a which was inflicted of many.