Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
THE HEADING; PAUL'S CONSOLATIONS IN RECENT TRIALS IN ASIA; HIS SINCERITY TOWARDS THE CORINTHIANS; EXPLANATION OF HIS NOT HAVING VISITED THEM AS HE HAD PURPOSED. (2Co. 1:1-24)
Timothy our brother—When writing to Timothy himself, he calls him "my son" (I Timothy 1:18). Writing of him, "brother," and "my beloved son" (I Corinthians 4:17). He had been sent before to Macedonia, and had met Paul at Philippi, when the apostle passed over from Troas to Macedonia (compare II Corinthians 2:12-13; see on I Corinthians 16:10-11).
in all Achaia—comprising Hellas and the Peloponnese. The Gentiles themselves, and Annæus Gallio, the proconsul (Acts 18:12-16), strongly testified their disapproval of the accusation brought by the Jews against Paul. Hence, the apostle was enabled to labor in the whole province of Achaia with such success as to establish several churches there (I Thessalonians 1:8; II Thessalonians 1:4), where, writing from Corinth, he speaks of the "churches," namely, not only the Corinthian, but others also—Athens, Cenchrea, and, perhaps, Sicyon, Argos, etc. He addresses "the Church in Corinth," directly, and all "the saints" in the province, indirectly. In Galatians 1:2 all the "churches" are addressed directly in the same circular Epistle. Hence, here he does not say, all the churches, but "all the saints."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 1:1:
Acts 18:18
Acts 18:23
Acts 20:3
Romans 16:23
1 Corinthians 1:2
1 Corinthians 16:10
Colossians 1:1
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Hebrews 13:23
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