<p>6:12 <i>You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections-</i> The GNB seems to well summarize this awkward phrasing: &quot;It is not we who have closed our hearts to you; it is you who have closed your hearts to us&quot;. This sounds as if one of the criticisms of Paul was that he had closed his heart to the Corinthians, he was all theory and no heart, a distant man hidden behind his own theology. And Paul's openhearted sharing of his life and feelings is therefore to be understood as a response to that slander.</p><p>Their sense of 'limitation' or being 'cramped' Gk. was not due to what he'd said, but more because of their own consciences as believers: &quot;You are not cramped in us, but you are cramped by your own hearts... be you also enlarged Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness?&quot; (2 Cor. 6:12-14). He's saying that the apparent 'cramping' or 'limitation' of being separate from the ways of the world is actually not a cramping at all- it's an enlargement of the heart's horizons. And this fits in admirably with the Hebrew idea of 'holiness'-&nbsp; a separation <i>from </i>sin /the world<i> unto</i> so much more.</p>