For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20–21. He puts them in mind to be all of them reformed, to lay aside animosities, dissensions, swellings, [3] proceeding from pride, uncleanness, fornication, and so forth which indeed will be a humiliation and trouble to him, to be forced to use his power by severities; for if he find them such as he would not, they will also find him such as they would not. Witham.—Των μη μετανοησαντων. This, according to Saint Augustine, is spoken here of doing great penance for heinous sins, and not merely of repentance, as some moderns would fain interpret it. ep. 198.