John Chrysostom

"I speak by way of disparagement," for ye suffer no whit less than men smitten on the face. What now can be stronger than this? What oppression more bitter than this? when having taken from you both your money and your freedom and your honor, they even so are not gentle towards you nor suffer you to abide in the rank of servants, but have used you more insultingly than any bought slave. "As though we had been weak." The expression is obscure. …

Homily 24 on 2 Corinthians ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

Here is the highest degree of humiliation of the Corinthians and the arrogance of the false apostles, for the false apostles treated them like slaves. He says this not because they were actually struck in the face, but because they suffered no less than those who are struck in the face. He said this with their haughtiness in mind; for what can be more shameful than that the false apostles, taking away their freedom, possessions, and honor, treated them like slaves?

Commentary on 2 Corinthians ↗

Thomas Aquinas

For these harmful things, I was too weak, I must say, to my shame, and yet you bear with them and not with us, as if we were too weak for that and for the glory you have attributed to them by preferring them to us, especially since the false apostles say that the reason we do not say or do such things to you is that we are weak in this part, i.e., because we are lowly: "We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute" (1 Cor. 4:10). …

Commentary on 2 Corinthians ↗