Verse 24
Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
This line is as stern as anything in 2 Corinthians 10 through the end. When a person has professed love, and the object of such alleged love hurls the challenge to "prove it" in the face of a competent witness just cited, and "before the face of all the churches," there is absolutely nothing "mild" in such a response. It is absolutely incredible that the scholarly efforts to disturb the unity of this epistle should be grounded in such a colossal misunderstanding of plain words as must be their view that "a change of tone" comes in 2 Corinthians 10. It simply is not so. The same tone of stern apostolic reprimand pervades every line of this remarkable letter.
The chapter division which ends here comes right in the middle of Paul's argument which was continued in what is labeled the next chapter. He will continue his instructions on Christian giving in 2 Corinthians 9.
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