Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Fortunatus . . . Achaicus—probably of Stephanas' household.
that . . . lacking on your part—So far as you were unable yourselves to "refresh my spirit," in that you are absent from me, "they have supplied" by coming to me from you, and so supplying the means of intercourse between you and me. They seem to have carried this letter back; see the subscription below: hence the exhortations, I Corinthians 16:16, I Corinthians 16:18, as though they would be at Corinth when the Epistle arrived.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 16:17:
1 Corinthians 1:16
1 Corinthians 16:12
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