2nd Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 9 Holy Bible
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
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That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.
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that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
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That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
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that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
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that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - By letters; rather, by the letters. He had certainly addressed two letters to them (1 Corinthians 5:9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.--The logical sequence of thought is: "I say this" (i.e., that my sentence of delivery to Satan will not be a hollow form) "in order that I may not seem to frighten you as with a bug-bear." This, it is clear from what follows, had been said. (Comp. the sneer in the next verse.) The use of the plural in this verse and that which follows is in favour of the hypothesis of a lost letter being referred to in 1Corinthians 5:9, but does not absolutely prove it.
