{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1746","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Freed from all anxiety about the Corinthians, Paul confidently declares that he is an apostle of the Lord. In the first letter he said that he was \"called an apostle,\" though he was not approved of by those who had been lured away from his teaching. In order to affirm that his apostleship has been ratified, he adds that he has been made an apostle by the will of God. He writes in association with Timothy, from whom he has heard the good news of the changes which have taken place at Corinth, and he associates the people there with believers in other churches, in order to confirm to them that they have made progress.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Paul does not always mention other people besides himself in his salutations. I think that he does this when one of his associates is well-known to the intended recipients. \"With all the saints\" is ambiguous. Either it means all the saints who were with Paul, or else it means all the saints who were at Corinth.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy our brother.\" In the first Epistle he promised he would send him; and charged them, saying, \"Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear.\" How then is it that he associates him here in the outset with himself? After he had been amongst them, agreeably to that promise of his teacher, \"I have sent unto you Timothy who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ,\" and had set everything in order, he had returned back to Paul; who on sending him, had said, \"Set him forward on his journey in peace that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren.\"</p><p>Since then Timothy was restored to his teacher, and after having with him set in order the things in Asia, had crossed again into Macedonia; Paul not unreasonably associates him hereafter as abiding with himself. For then he wrote from Asia, but now from Macedonia. Moreover, thus associating him he at once gains increased respect for him, and displays his own exceeding humility: for Timothy was very inferior to himself, yet doth love bring all things together. Whence also he everywhere makes him equal with himself; at one time saying, \"as a child serveth a father so he served with me;\" at another, \"for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do;\" and here, he even calleth him, \"brother;\" by all making him an object of respect to the Corinthians amongst whom he had been, as I have said, and given proof of his worth.</p><p>\"To the Church of God which is at Corinth.\" Again he calleth them \"the Church,\" to bring and bind them all together in one. For it could not be one Church, while those within her were sundered and stood apart. \"With all the saints which are in the whole of Achaia.\" In thus saluting all through the Epistle addressed to the Corinthians, he would at once honor these, and bring together the whole nation. But he calls them \"saints,\" thereby implying that if any be an impure person, he hath no share in this salutation. But why, writing to the mother city, does he address all through her, since he doth not so everywhere? For instance, in his Epistle to the Thessalonians he addressed not the Macedonians also; and in like manner in that to the Ephesians he doth not include all Asia; neither was that to the Romans written to those also who dwell in Italy. But in this Epistle he doth so; and in that to the Galatians. For there also he writeth not to one city, or two, or three, but to all who are scattered every where.<br/><i>— Homily 1 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: People ask why it is that Paul puts his own name first, when the normal custom in letters is to put the name of the addressee at the beginning. The reason for this is that he is an apostle who is writing to those who are accountable to him. This is why he adopts the custom of secular judges, who do the same thing when they write to those over whom they exercise authority. Note too that he did not say \"Paul and Timothy,\" because they were not both apostles. But in writing to the Philippians Paul did say that, because it was not so necessary for him to stress his authority in that case..<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 1</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Timothy and Titus were both sent to Corinth, but Paul did not mention Titus in the letter because he was the one who actually carried it there.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 289</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"aec2b1ccce1c6e99a2a9f62a47c815861a7a6ff41645052515daf9fe335ede7b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1746,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8ffef6479fd0bb83d0dd82af458e65dbcbc7a66d08b745d4005973e187c30494","translator":null,"work":null}