2 Corinthians 10:1

2 Corinthians 10:1. Now I Paul myself: ‘Hitherto I have addressed you for the most part as associated with others in the work of the Lord; but understand me now as speaking exclusively in my own person'

entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. These words convey merely different shades of that unruffled placidity of temper which was so wonderfully displayed by the Lord Jesus, that even He Himself holds it up as the outstanding feature of His character, in which He would have His followers to “learn of Him” (Matthew 11:29: and see Isaiah 53:7; John 18:23; Mark 14:60-61; Luke 23:8-9; Luke 23:34);

I who in your presence am lowly among you referring, as we think, to the almost shrinking way in which he carried himself after his disappointing experience at Athens, in ministering to so renowned and luxurious a people as the Corinthians, who doated as much on showy oratory as the Athenians on philosophy (see on 1 Corinthians 2:3-4),

but being absent am of good courage toward you, ‘have the fall courage both of the truth itself and of my office to proclaim it:'