2 Indeed I beg that, when present, I may not use boldness with that confidence with which I am counting on taking bold measures+ against some who appraise us as if we walked according to [what we are in the] flesh.

2 I have said previously and, as if present the second time and yet absent now, I say in advance to those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that if ever I come again* I will not spare,+