寫信給你們是因為格外疼愛你們 — 哥林多後書讀經隨筆 第 2章

哥林多後書第二章第1—4節，保羅說他下定了決心，以後再到哥林多教會那裏去的話，將不懷著悲痛的心情去。保羅說他到哥林多那裏去不是去批評哥林多的弟兄們讓弟兄們難過，而是覺得哥林多的弟兄們應該始終持守主的真理讓保羅高興。保羅說他給哥林多教會寫信的時候淚流滿麵，心裏是非常痛的，他不願意弟兄們看到保羅的書信時感到愧疚難過，而是想讓大家知道保羅寫信給哥林多教會是因為他格外疼愛大家，希望大家持守主的福音，活在基督的愛裏。

 

 林後2:1 我自己定了主意、再到你們那裏去、必須大家沒有憂愁。

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

 林後2:2 倘若我叫你們憂愁、除了我叫那憂愁的人以外、誰能叫我快樂呢。

For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?

 林後2:3 我曾把這事寫給你們、恐怕我到的時候、應該叫我快樂的那些人、反倒叫我憂愁．我也深信、你們眾人都以我的快樂為自己的快樂。

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

 林後2:4 我先前心裏難過痛苦、多多的流淚、寫信給你們．不是叫你們憂愁、乃是叫你們知道我格外的疼愛你們。

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.