2 Corinthians
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, usually
referred to simply as Second Corinthians and often written 2
Corinthians, is the 8th book of the New Testament. The book,
originally written in Greek, is a letter from Paul of Tarsus
to the Christians of Corinth, Greece......
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I. TEXT, AUTHENTICITY AND DATE
1. Internal Evidence
2. External Evidence
3. Date
II. RESUME OF EVENTS
III. THE NEW SITUATION
1. The Offender
2. The False Teachers
3. The Painful Visit
4. The Severe Letter
IV. HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION
V. INTEGRITY OF THE EPISTLE
1. 2 Corintians 6:14 through 7:1
2. 2 Corintians 10:1 through 13:10
VI. C...
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was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same
year --about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58 --at Macedonia. The
epistle was occasioned by the information which the apostle
had received form Titus, and also, as it would certainly seem
probable, from Timothy, of the reception of the first epistle.
This information, as it would seem fr...
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Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians,
Paul
left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been
aroused against
him, the evidence of his great success, and
proceeded to
Macedonia. Pursuing the usual route, he reached
Troas, the port
of departure for Europe. Here he expected to meet
with Titus,
whom he had sent from Ephesus...
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SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. Reasons for writing. To
explain why he deferred his promised visit to Corinth on his
way to Macedonia (1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Corinthians 16:5; 2
Corinthians 1:15-16), and so to explain his apostolic walk,
and vindicate his apostleship against gainsayers (2
Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 6...
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