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<div2 id="iiCor.i" n="i" next="iiCor.ii" prev="iiCor" progress="51.37%" title="Introduction">
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<div class="Center" id="iiCor.i-p0.1"><h2 id="iiCor.i-p0.2">Second Corinthians</h2>
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<p id="iiCor.i-p1">Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="iiCor.i-p1.1">Daniel Mayo</span>.</p>
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</div>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="iiCor.i-Page_606" n="606"/>
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<div class="Center" id="iiCor.i-p1.3">
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<p id="iiCor.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iiCor.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iiCor.i-p2.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iiCor.i-p2.3">OF THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE</h5>
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<h2 id="iiCor.i-p2.4">C O R I N T H I A N S.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iiCor.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="iiCor.i-p3.1">In</span> his
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former epistle the apostle had signified his intentions of
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<i>coming to Corinth, as he passed through Macedonia</i> (<scripRef id="iiCor.i-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:1Cor.16.5" parsed="|1Cor|16|5|0|0" passage="1Co 16:5">xvi. 5</scripRef>), but, being providentially
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hindered for some time, he writes this second epistle to them about
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a year after the former; and there seem to be these two urgent
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occasions:—1. The case of the incestuous person, who lay under
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censure, required that with all speed he should be restored and
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received again into communion. This therefore he gives directions
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about (<scripRef id="iiCor.i-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17" parsed="|2Cor|2|1|2|17" passage="2Co 2:1-17"><i>ch.</i> ii.</scripRef>),
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and afterwards (<scripRef id="iiCor.i-p3.4" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.7.1-2Cor.7.16" parsed="|2Cor|7|1|7|16" passage="2Co 7:1-16"><i>ch.</i>
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vii.</scripRef>) he declares the satisfaction he had upon the
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intelligence he received of their good behaviour in that affair. 2.
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There was a contribution now making for the poor saints at
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Jerusalem, in which he exhorts the Corinthians to join, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p3.5" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.8.1-2Cor.9.15" parsed="|2Cor|8|1|9|15" passage="2Co 8:1-9:15"><i>ch.</i> viii., ix</scripRef>.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="iiCor.i-p4">There are divers other things very
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observable in this epistle; for example, I. The account the apostle
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gives of his labours and success in preaching the gospel in several
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places, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p4.1" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.2.1-2Cor.2.17" parsed="|2Cor|2|1|2|17" passage="2Co 2:1-17"><i>ch.</i> ii</scripRef>.
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II. The comparison he makes between the Old and New Testament
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dispensation, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p4.2" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.3.1-2Cor.3.18" parsed="|2Cor|3|1|3|18" passage="2Co 3:1-18"><i>ch.</i>
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iii</scripRef>. III. The manifold sufferings that he and his
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fellow-labourers met with, and the motives and encouragements for
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their diligence and patience, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p4.3" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.4.1-2Cor.5.21" parsed="|2Cor|4|1|5|21" passage="2Co 4:1-5:21"><i>ch.</i> iv., v</scripRef>. IV. The caution he
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gives the Corinthians against mingling with unbelievers, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p4.4" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.6.1-2Cor.6.18" parsed="|2Cor|6|1|6|18" passage="2Co 6:1-18"><i>ch.</i> vi</scripRef>. V. The way and
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manner in which he justifies himself and his apostleship from the
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opprobrious insinuations and accusations of false teachers, who
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endeavoured to ruin his reputation at Corinth, <scripRef id="iiCor.i-p4.5" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.10.1-2Cor.12.21" parsed="|2Cor|10|1|12|21" passage="2Co 10:1-12:21"><i>ch.</i> x.-xii.</scripRef>, and throughout the
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whole epistle.</p>
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