Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Not for that--that is, Not that. "Faith" is here emphatic. He had "dominion" or a right to control them in matters of discipline, but in matters of "faith" he was only a "fellow helper of their joy" (namely, in believing, Romans 15:13; Philippians 1:25). The Greek is, "Not that we lord it over your faith." This he adds to soften the magisterial tone of 2 Corinthians 1:23. His desire is to cause them not sorrow (2 Corinthians 2:1-2), but "joy." The Greek for "helpers" implies a mutual leaning, one on the other, like the mutually supporting buttresses of a sacred building. "By faith (Romans 11:20) ye stand"; therefore it is that I bestow such pains in "helping" your faith, which is the source of all true "joy" (Romans 15:13). I want nothing more, not to lord it over your faith.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
2 Corinthians 1:3
2 Corinthians 8:7
2 Corinthians 13:11
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