Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

2 Corinthians 2:12

Ἐλθὼν δὲ εἰς τὴν Τρῳάδα. Now when I came to Troas. ‘Furthermore’ (A.V.) is quite wrong. Having got the charge of levity and the case of the grievous offender out of the way, he returns to the affliction which was so near killing him in Asia. His anxiety about the mission of Titus, and about the effect of the letter which Titus took with him to Corinth, was so intense, that, although he found an excellent opening for preaching in Troas, he could not remain there to wait for Titus, but went on to Macedonia, in order to meet him all the sooner. Troas would be on his way to Corinth, if he went by land through Macedonia from Ephesus.

εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ χριστοῦ. For the gospel of the Christ, i.e. to promote the spread of it.

θύρας μοι�. When a door stood open to me in the Lord. Comp. 1 Corinthians 16:9 and Colossians 4:3, where the same metaphor is used, and 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:1, where εἴσοδος is used in the same sense, viz. an opening for preaching the Gospel. But see Lightfoot on 1 Thessalonians 1:9; also Ramsay in Hastings’ DB. iv. p. 814. In Acts 14:27 the ‘door’ is opened, not to the preachers, but to the hearers. The ἐν κυρίῳ gives the sphere in which the opportunity was offered: not for teaching of any kind, but for preaching Christ.

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