2 Corinthians: PAUL left Ephesus for Troas soon after writing the First Epistle to the Corinthians. (2 Corinthians 1: 8-10; 2: 12) Titus, who had been sent to visit the church at Corinth, was to join him at Troas. Because of Titus’ delay in coming, the apostle went on to Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia, where Timothy joined him. (2 Corinthians 2:13; 1:l.) While they were there, Titus arrived and reported on the results of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church. (2 Corinthians 7: 6-15; 8: 6, 16, 22, 23; 12:18.) Thus the Second Epistle to the Corinthians appears to have been written at Philippi in the summer Of AD 58. In this letter Paul wrote to the Corinthians words of comfort and commendation, rejoicing over the desired effects of his first letter. Many of the evils he had rebuked were corrected. The instruction given in this second letter supplements what was said in the first epistle. Paul speaks of the Christian worker as an ambassador for Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:19-21) He mentions the trials and suffering through which the messengers of the truth must pass, recounting many of those that he himself had endured. (2 Corinthians 1: 8-10; 11: 22-23) The love of God for man, and the manifestation of it through Christ as our Savior, are ever the theme of the apostle’s letters. “In every true disciple, this love, like a sacred fire, burns on the altar of the heart” comments a modern writer. “It was on the earth that the love of God was revealed through Christ. It is on earth that His children are to reflect this love through blameless lives. Thus sinners will be led to the cross, to behold the Lamb of God
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