2 Corinthians 2:9

Verse 9. This was another reason why I wrote my former letter to you, that is to try your obedience, and your attachment to the faith, and that I might know whether the difference of opinion which prevailed among you had prevented you from being obedient. Calmet.—Others explain it thus: I have written this second letter to you to try your obedience, and to know if you will pay the same obedience to my orders, when I tell you to receive the incestuous man into your communion, as you did when I told you to separate him from your communion. Estius and Theodoret.