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<p class="tab-1">In his former epistle the apostle had signified his intentions of <i>coming to Corinth, as he passed through Macedonia</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="1Cor.16.5" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.16.5">1 Cor. 16:5</a>), but, being providentially hindered for some time, he writes this second epistle to them about a year after the former; and there seem to be these two urgent occasions:—1. The case of the incestuous person, who lay under censure, required that with all speed he should be restored and received again into communion. This therefore he gives directions about (<a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17">2 Cor. 2:1-17</a>), and afterwards (<a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.7.1-2Cor.7.16" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.7.1-2Cor.7.16">2 Cor. 7:1-16</a>) he declares the satisfaction he had upon the intelligence he received of their good behaviour in that affair. 2. There was a contribution now making for the poor saints at Jerusalem, in which he exhorts the Corinthians to join, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.8.1" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.8.1">2 Cor. 8:1</a>-<a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.9.15" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.9.15">9:15</a>.</p>
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<p class="tab-1">There are divers other things very observable in this epistle; for example, I. The account the apostle gives of his labours and success in preaching the gospel in several places, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17">2 Cor. 2:1-17</a>. II. The comparison he makes between the Old and New Testament dispensation, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.3.1-2Cor.3.18" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.3.1-2Cor.3.18">2 Cor. 3:1-18</a>. III. The manifold sufferings that he and his fellow-labourers met with, and the motives and encouragements for their diligence and patience, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.4.1" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.4.1">2 Cor. 4:1</a>-<a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.5.21" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.5.21">5:21</a>. IV. The caution he gives the Corinthians against mingling with unbelievers, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.6.1-2Cor.6.18" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.6.1-2Cor.6.18">2 Cor. 6:1-18</a>. V. The way and manner in which he justifies himself and his apostleship from the opprobrious insinuations and accusations of false teachers, who endeavoured to ruin his reputation at Corinth, <a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.10.1" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.10.1">2 Cor. 10:1</a>-<a class="bibleref" title="2Cor.12.21" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.12.21">12:21</a>; and throughout the whole epistle.</p>
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