2 ⁵ Any injury that has been done, has not been done to me; to some extent, not to labour the point, it has been done to you all. 2 ⁶ The penalty on which the general meeting has agreed has met the offence well enough. 2 ⁷ Something very different is called for now: you must forgive the offender and put heart into him; the man's sorrow must not be made so severe as to overwhelm him. 2 ⁸ I urge you therefore to assure him of your love for him by a formal act. 2 ⁹ I wrote, I may say, to see how you stood the test, whether you fully accepted my authority. 2 ¹⁰ But anyone who has your forgiveness has mine too; and when I speak of forgiving (so far as there is anything for me to forgive), I mean that as the representative of Christ I have forgiven him for your sake. Or: that I have forgiven him for your sake, in the presence of Christ. 2 ¹¹ For Satan must not be allowed to get the better of us; we know his wiles all too well.