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2Co_1:1-2. Address and greetin.
διὰ θελ . Θεοῦ ] See on 1Co_1:1.
καὶ Τιμόθ .] His relation to this Epistle is the same as that of Sosthenes to the first Epistle: he appears, not as amanuensis, but as (subordinate) joint-sender of it. See on 1Co_1:1.
ὁ ἀδελφ .] as at 1Co_1:1.
σὺν τοῖς ἁγίοις πᾶσι κ . τ . λ .] Grotius: “Voluit P. exempla hujus epistolae mitti ad alias in Achaia ecclesias.” So also Rosenmüller, Emmerling, and others. But, in that case, would not Paul have rather written σὺν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις πάσαις ? Comp. Gal_1:2. And are the contents of the Epistle suited for an encyclical destination? No; he means, in agreement with 1Co_1:2, the Christians living outside of Corinth, scattered through Achaia, who attached themselves to the church-community in Corinth, which must therefore have been the sole seat of a church—the metropolis of the Christians in the province. The state of matters in Galatia was different.
Under Achaia we must, according to the sense then attached to it, understand Hellas and Peloponnesus. This province and that of Macedonia comprehended all Greece. See on Act_18:12.—2Co_1:2. See on Rom_1:7.