My love be with you all. — Like a river which, after rushing, foaming over many a rock and through many a gorge, at last emerges into a broad calm amid sunlit meadows, so this Epistle, after Chapter s of trenchant logic and fervid rebuke, closes in peaceful words of tenderness and love.
[In reference to the erroneous subscription which follows this Epistle in our English version, see Notes on 1 Corinthians 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:8; 1 Corinthians 16:10.
For the date of this Epistle, see Introduction.]