2 Corinthians 3:2 Commentary and Bible Study

To explain why, he here begins a wonderful illustration: ‘Ye are out epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.’ You are our epistles. Now it might confuse a little because the apostle says, ‘Ye are our epistle written in our hearts’ and what he means by that, of course, is that the Corinthian converts, by their very lives, were epistles. Why, they were walking monuments of the power and grace of God, showing evidence of tremendous changes and conversions. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 we have a little list of the kind of people many of them were and what they had been saved from. Yes, there were miracles of grace and so they were living epistles. Every word that the apostle had preached to them about salvation was in his own heart too. It became written in theirs but it was written in his. He passionately believed it and knew it and had proved it. They were written in his heart – every experience he had had at Corinth, every profession of faith was written in his own heart. Nevertheless, it was they who were the epistles, and they were known and read of all men. The reputation of what had happened in Corinth was widespread in the region.