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The Corinthians letters are, perhaps more than any others in the New Testament, for churches and pastors. They deal with the problems of church life and with the way Paul, as the pastor par excellence, wrestled with those problems. Second Corinthians, in particular, presents us with a side of Paul we almost do not see elsewhere. Here Paul reveals his “down” side, if you please: the fact that he...

of the Corinthians. (Paul always regarded the demonstration of the effective work of the Spirit as the true attestation of his ministry; cf. 1 Cor. 2:1–5.) “No one, who came in contact with the Christians at Corinth and saw the supernatural change that had been effected in them …, could fail to read this writing of the Spirit of the living God” (Tasker 60). The way Paul is using the metaphor apparently reminds him of another famous writing that he can compare. Thus he contrasts something written
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