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I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
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Verse 9. Now I rejoice, and so forth I should have been inconsolable, had my letter made you sad, without producing the salutary effect intended by it; but I now rejoice that it caused a sorrow and sadness productive of the great advantages you have reaped from it. Thus in every sentence Saint Paul shews the solicitude of a father, seeking nothing but the advancement of his spiritual children. Calmet.
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