Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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WRITTEN PROBABLY DURING HIS STAY IN
MACEDONIA, IN THE COURSE OF HIS THIRD
MISSIONARY JOURNEY, ABOUT 55 A.D.
In the brief period that seems to have intervened between
the writing of St. Paul's two existing Letters to the Corinthians,
the Apostle appears to have paid a second visit to Corinth, of
which no account has come down to us (2 Cor. 12. 14; 13. 1.).
Apparently that visit failed of its object, and the reception given
to the Apostle was not such as he had the right to expect.
It seems that St. Paul, returning to Ephesus, wrote a strongly-worded
letter to his disloyal Corinthian converts, and that this
letter effected, as he afterwards learned, the purpose which
the visit had failed to effect. (That letter is generally thought
to have been lost, but it has been suggested, with some probability,
that part of it forms the last four chapters of this so-called
‘Second Letter’ to the Corinthians). A few months later, a
riot instigated by Demetrius, the silversmith, drove the Apostle
from Ephesus (Acts 19. 20; 2 Cor. 1. 8). Travelling northwards,
the Apostle went to the Troad, in the hope of meeting
Titus (who had been sent, possibly with the ‘Lost Letter,’ to
Corinth), and of receiving from him some re-assuring news as
to the position of matters in the Corinthian Church. But
Titus had not yet arrived, and, after waiting for him for some
time in vain, St. Paul, keenly disappointed (2 Cor. 2. 13), went
on into Macedonia. There he met Titus at Philippi; and to the
Apostle's great joy Titus was able to report that the Letter had
been well received, and promptly acted upon, by the majority of
the Corinthian Christians, and that they cherished a hearty
affection for St. Paul himself. On the other hand the Apostle
was greatly distressed to learn that there were members of the
Church who still stubbornly refused to submit to his authority,
and who attacked him with cruel and persistent slander. This
news, brought by Titus, may have been the occasion of the
present Letter. It is an outburst of passionate feeling, in
which the Apostle expresses his gratitude for the kindness and
obedience manifested towards him by the majority of the
Church, and defends his own personal character and apostolic
authority against the unscrupulous attacks of the minority.
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TO THE CORINTHIANS. II.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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