Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 6:12

οὐ στενοχωρεῖσθε ἐν ἡμῖν κ. τ. λ.: ye are not straitened in us (this carries on the metaphor of πεπλάτυνται), but ye are straitened in your own affections; i.e., his adversaries at Corinth may have said that he was a man of narrow sympathies, and that there was no room in his heart for his Corinthian converts, but, in fact, the lack of sympathy was on their side it is they that are “narrow-minded”. τὰ σπλάγχνα = the upper viscera, i.e., the heart, lungs and liver, the vital parts, and so may be rendered “the affections”.

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2 Corinthians 6:12

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