2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1
2 Corinthians 1:1,2 Paul saluteth the Corinthians,
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 and blesseth God for the comforts and deliverances
given him, not solely for his own sake, but for the
comfort and encouragement of others also.
2 Corinthians 1:8-11 He telleth them of a deliverance he had lately had
from a great danger in Asia, and expresseth his trust
in God's protection for the future through their prayers.
2 Corinthians 1:12-14 He calleth both his own conscience and theirs to
witness his sincerity in preaching the gospel,
2 Corinthians 1:15-22 and excuseth his not coming to them, as not
proceeding from lightness,
2 Corinthians 1:23,24 but from lenity towards them.
The will of God here doth not signify the bare permission, but the calling and precept of God; he was called to be an apostle, Romans 1:1 1 Corinthians 1:1, making him a minister and a witness, Acts 26:16. His joining of Timothy with him, showeth both the great humility of the apostle, and his desire to give him a reputation in the churches, though he was a very young man. The Epistle is not directed only to the church of God which was at Corinth, (the metropolis of Peloponnesus), but also to all those Christians which lived in Achaia: by which name probably he doth not understand all Greece, (though that anciently had that name, from one Achaeus, that was king there, from whom the Grecians had the name of Achivi,) but that region of Peloponnesus which lay in a neck of land between the Aegean and Ionian Seas; which obtained that name in a more special and restrained sense.