2 Corinthians 1:13

2 Corinthians 1:13. For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read (in this Letter), or even acknowledge (without the need of our writing it), and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end; [2] as also ye did acknowledge us in part, or ‘in some degree,' as in chap. 2 Corinthians 2:5; Romans 11:25; Romans 15:15; Romans 15:24, that we are your glorying, as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. It is affecting to find one of so lofty a devoutness of spirit and transparency of character on finding that his triumphs at Corinth had been clouded by the coolness of his converts' attachment to their spiritual father, and his whole claim to apostleship called in question by some clinging to the persuasion that there were some there still who even then owned him in his true character, as he gladly did them, and that in the day of the Lord Jesus this would come out fully to weir mutual joy.

[2] The play (says Stanley) on the original words for ‘know' and ‘acknowledge' ἀ ναγιν and έπιγιν) is obvious, and “the juxtaposition is so evidently for the sake of this resemblance of sound, that it is not necessary to seek any dose connection of sense” (any closer connection, we should say).