{I was with you} (egenom(886e) pros humas). Rather, "I came to
you" (not (886e), was). "I not only eschewed all affectation of
cleverness or grandiloquence, but I went to the opposite extreme
of diffidence and nervous self-effacement" (Robertson and
Plummer). Paul had been in prison in Philippi, driven out of
Thessalonica and Beroea, politely bowed out of Athens. It is a
human touch to see this shrinking as he faced the hard conditions
in Corinth. It is a common feeling of the most effective
preachers. Cool complacency is not the mood of the finest
preaching. See phobos (fear) and romos (trembling) combined
in 2Co 7:15 Php 2:12 Eph 6:5 .
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