Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Ver. 11. Such will we be, &c.] That we have not hitherto been so, was because we spared you. Posse et nolle nobile, saith Chrysostom. Kindness is godliness, Isaiah 40:6, חסד