Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
And to pass by you - Through ̓ di' you; that is, through your city, or province; or to take them, as we say, in his way. His design was to pass through Corinth and Achaia on his journey. This was not the direct way from Ephesus to Macedonia. An inspection of a map will show at one view that the direct way was that which he concluded finally to take - that by Troas. Yet he had designed to go out of his way in order to make them a visit; and intended also, perhaps, to make them also a longer visit on his return. The former part of the plan he had been induced to abandon.
Into Macedonia - A part of Greece having Thrace on the north, Thessaly south, Epirus west and the AEgean Sea east; see the note, Acts 16:9.
And of you to be brought on my way - By you; see the note, I Corinthians 16:6.
Toward Judea - His object in going to Judea was to convey the collection for the poor saints which he had been at so much pains to collect throughout the churches of the Gentiles; see the notes, Romans 15:25-26; compare I Corinthians 16:3-4.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Corinthians 1:16:
1 Corinthians 11:34
1 Corinthians 16:5
2 Corinthians 1:1
2 Corinthians 1:12
2 Corinthians 1:15
2 Corinthians 7:5
2 Corinthians 12:14
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