For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
For. Proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness").
If I. The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this (2 Corinthians 2:1) is not my reason for not coming, since I showed uo scruple in causing "heaviness" in my first letter. But I answer, If I have been the one to cause you sorrow, my object was that the grieved one (namely, the Corinthians in general, 2 Corinthians 2:3, but with tacit reference to the incestuous person in particular) should repent, and so "make me glad."
For ... who is he then that ... but the same which is made sorry ... Present; not past: the Greek Reflexive Voice, 'he who permits himself to be made sorry.' Returning sensibility is a sign of repentance, (2 Corinthians 2:7, etc.) Contrast Jeremiah 5:3.
By [ ex (G1537 )] me - owing to me: his own sin is the real cause by х hupo (G5259)] which he surfers (Jeremiah 2:19).