2 Corinthians 8 and 9: A Commentary on Two Administrative Letters of the Apostle Paul (Biblia.com)

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This pointed commentary provides in-depth analysis on chapters 8 and 9 of 2 Corinthians. This resource investigates how these two chapters of 2 Corinthians can be related to other epistles in terms of their literary form, internal composition, argumentative rhetoric, and function.

example is laudatory in character,7 and thus an encomium.8 How does the example work? Paul first made some general observations on the paradoxical situation of the Macedonian churches. Like all Christian communities, including that of the Corinthians, the Macedonian churches had been granted the full measure of God’s grace. The term introduced here is χάρις (“grace”); it embraces a whole range of meanings, all of which are important for the argument of the letter. In fact, it was part of Paul’s

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