Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 1:2

ἀπὸ Θεοῦ πατρὸς κ. τ. λ.: this coupling of the names of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ as alike the source of grace and peace is most significant in its bearing upon St. Paul's Christology (cf. 2 Corinthians 13:13).

I. The Obedience of the Corinthians to the Instructions of the First Epistle (2 Corinthians 1:3 to 2 Corinthians 7:16). This is the main topic of the first section of this Epistle. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 : THANKSGIVING; GOD'S CONSOLATIONS AND THE SYMPATHY OF SORROW. St. Paul's habit is to begin his letters with an expression of thankfulness for the Christian progress of his correspondents. The only exceptions are the Epp. to Titus and to the Galatians (in this case he had received bad news from Galatia). In 1 Timothy 1:12 the cause of his thankfulness is the exhibition of the Divine mercy to himself; and this Epistle begins with a like thought, from which he passes (2 Corinthians 1:14) to his confident belief that the Corinthian Christians are still his καύχημα. It was especially important that a letter which was so largely taken up with rebuke and with the assertion of his apostolical authority should begin with a message of sympathy and hopefulness (2 Corinthians 1:11 ff.).

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