2 Corinthians 1:13 Commentary and Bible Study

There is no hidden meaning in the letters we write, says Paul. Everything we do towards you is straightforward. And the implication of all this in the passage is that you should trust us also, and in many respects they have.We didn’t come to you to preach, says Paul, so that you would be pleased with us, but you remember what it was like when you were first saved, when you first came to the Lord. You said, ‘Thank God for Paul and Silas and Timothy. Thank God for these men who hazarded their lives to come to Corinth and to speak to us and to our stony faces and to weather all our insults until the Holy Spirit worked and brought us to the Saviour. We are glad of the apostles.’ ‘You were glad of us;’ says Paul, ‘in those days.’The apostle means this. I am not after things in this world, I am not after a horse and carriage in those days perhaps, or anything of that type. All I want – this is my great ideal – that when Christ comes in that final day, you will be there, souls who have come to the Lord through my preaching. That is his great goal, his great aim. They were his rejoicing against the day of the Lord Jesus.