Verse 12
12. His cause that had done the wrong The incestuous transgressor.
That suffered The father. Here St. Paul assures them that it was not to right the parties that he wrote, but to right the Church. There were countless adulterers in Corinth, but Paul did not interfere with them, as they belonged not to the Church, and so did not corrupt it.
Our care Literally, that your zeal for us might be manifested among you before God. His object was to inspire among them a genuine Pauline zeal before God.
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