II CORINTHIANS

¹The Second Epistle to the Corinthians (“Torch Bible Commentaries(“ London: S.C.M. Press, 1954), pp. 7-8.

²See R. H. Strachan, The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (“The Moffatt New Testament Commentary” New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935), pp. xxix-xxxviii, for a portrayal of the apostle’s personality as sketched from II Corinthians.

³For a listing of the internal and external evidence see Alfred Plummer, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (“The International Critical Commentary” Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1919), pp. xi-xii.

⁴J. Z. Fitzmyer, “Qumran and the Interpolated Paragraph in 2 Cor. 6: 14—7:1,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, XXIII (1961), 271 ff. K. G. Kuhn, “Les Rouleaux de Cuivre De Qumran,” Revue Biblique, LXI (1954), 203, note 2, suggests that Paul Christianized an Essene text.

⁵See Paul Feine, Johannes Behm, and Werner Georg Kuemmel, Introduction to the New Testament, trans. A. J. Mattill, Jr. (14th ed., rev., New York: Abingdon Press, 1966), p. 211, for a few of the factors which militate against any overweighting of these objections.

⁶For the gamut of the proposals see Donald Guthrie, New Testament Introduction: The Pauline Epistles (London: The Tyndale Press, 1961), pp. 62-64.

⁷Guenther Bornkamm, “The History of the Origin of the So-called Second Letter to the Corinthians,” The Authorship and Integrity of the New Testament (London, S.P.C.K., 1965), pp. 13-81; J. T. Dean, St. Paul and Corinth (London: Lutterworth, 1947), pp. 40-42.

⁸Feine, Behm, Kuemmel, op. cit., p. 214.

⁹So Strachan, op. cit., p. xv. See S. M. Gilmour, “Corinthians, Second Letter to the,” The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, ed. George But-trick (New York: Abingdon Press, 1962), A-D, 694-95; hereafter cited as IDB.

¹⁰The Second Epistle to the Corinthians” (Exegesis), The Interpreter’s Bible, ed. George A. Buttrick, et al. (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1953), X, 270.

¹¹“Guthrie, op. cit., pp. 48 -49.

¹²The classical arguments for this position are given by Plummer, op. cit., pp. xxvii-xxxvi. See also Filson, op. (At., pp. 270-71, and Gilmour, op. cit., p. 695.

¹³For evaluation of these arguments against the unity of the letter see Guthrie, op. cit., pp. 47-64; Philip E. Hughes, Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians (“The New International Commentary on the New Testament” Grand Rapids; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1962), pp. xxi-xxv; R. V. G. Tasker, The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (“The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries” London: The Tyndale Press, 1958), pp. 23-25; A. M. G. Stephenson, “A Defence of the Integrity of 2 Corinthians,” The Authorship and Integrity of the New Testament (London: S.P.C.K., 1965), pp. 82-97.

¹⁴See Feine, Behm, Kuemmel, op. cit., 212-15.

¹⁵Op. cit., p. xxx. He lists the passages which demonstrate this unity of theme.

¹⁶For a picture of the church at Corinth based on I Corinthians see William Baird, The Corinthian Church—A Biblical Approach to Urban Culture (New York: Abingdon Press, 1964).

¹⁷Hughes would identify the man in II Cor. 2:5-8 and 7:12 with the incestuous man of I Cor. 5:1 and would make I Corinthians the “sorrowful letter” (op. cit., pp. 59-61, xxvii-xxxv). But see Guthrie, op. cit., pp. 47-62.

¹⁸Feine, Behm, Kuemmel, op. cit., p. 209.

¹⁹See Dieter Georgi, Die Gegner des Paulus im 2. Korintherbrief, Wis-senschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament, ed. G. Born-kamm and G. Von Rad (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1964), for a thorough treatment of the nature of Paul’s opponents in Corinth.

²⁰Ernst Kasemann, “Die Legitimitat des Apostels, Zeitschrift zum Neuen Testament Wissenschaft, XLI (1942), 33 ff.

²¹Everett Harrison. Introduction to the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964), p. 272.