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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...

Having been accused by his critics of walking according to the flesh, Paul responds with an admission and a denial. The admission is that he does, indeed, walk in the flesh: “that is, in the element of flesh, living his life, like every other man, subject to the laws and limitations which are common to human flesh” (Hughes 349)—cf. 4:7. If Paul’s rivals were guilty of an over-emphasized “spirituality,” as some interpreters think, he may be gently reminding them that we are still in a this-worldly,
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