Verse 22
22. The sinners to be rescued, if possible, are two classes: a some and an others; but Tischendorf makes three classes, including a third, who are others still.
Of some have compassion The reading followed by our translators may be rendered, some treat with pity, making a discrimination, that is, according to the peculiarity of each case, using severity or tenderness as the transgressor needs. But the reading preferred by scholars at the present day would be: some who are making a dissension you must refute; including the idea of detection and exposure.
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