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THE EXPOSITOR’S GREEK TESTAMENT
HODDER AND STOUGHTON NEW YORK AND LONDON
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THE EXPOSITOR’S GREEK TESTAMENT
THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS
Ἱ. Ἡ BeEKNARD, DD.
II THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS
III THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS
5: ἢ. Ε΄ SALMOND; 199. IV THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS
H. A. A. KENNEDY, D.Sc. ν THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS
HODDER. AND STOUGHTON NEW YORK AND LONDON
THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE
CHAPTER I. THE TIME AND PLACE OF WRITING.
1. In the case of no book of the New Testament is it more essential to a true understanding of its language, that we should have a clear view of the circumstances under which it was composed, than in the case of 2 Corinthians. It is the most autobiographical of all St. Paul’s letters, and it abounds in personal allusions, which it is difficult, at this distance of time, to appreciate, and of which some will probably always remain obscure. It glows with the heat of fervid life) and was evidently written under the influence of strong emotion. And, if we do not assign it to its true place in St. Paul’s life, we are likely to miss a good deal of the force of its earnest and eager words. It is, therefore, desirable to enter into more detail as to the occasion of its composition than was necessary in the case of a treatise like the Epistle to the Romans, the argu- ments of which are largely independent of the circumstances of the author at the time when it was written.
2. In the nineteenth chapter of the Acts we find that Ephesus has become St. Paul’s headquarters; the centre of interest has been shifted from Jerusalem and Antioch, and the Apostle’s labours are being mainly spent upon Asia Minor. Corinth, however, occupies a considerable share in his thoughts; and, during the period of over two years which he spends at Ephesus, communica- tions with the Corinthian Church are being carried on. It is the _ sequence of events during this period and the subsequent six months
that we have to examine. Such an examination of the order in which events followed one another might be made without any determination of the absolute dates of any ; but it is convenient to
‘See Hort, $udaistic Christianity, p. 98,