2 Corinthians 2:8

κυρῶσαι εἰς αὐτὸν�. To ratify towards him love, i.e. to make it valid and effective (Galatians 3:15). The metaphor is so natural, especially in one so fond of legal phraseology as S. Paul, that we cannot infer from κυρῶσαι that a formal decree, restoring the offender to communion, is suggested. He leaves it to them to decide how affection is to be ratified. But it is affection and not punishment that is to be ratified: ἀγάπη comes as a kind of surprise at the end of the sentence. Comp. Galatians 6:1.