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2 Corinthians 1:16

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

In the first epistle he said: "I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia" (1 Cor. 16:5), but here he says: "I intended to come to you earlier." What then? Does he contradict himself? No. For although I wrote otherwise, he says, I nevertheless strove and desired to come to you before I would see Macedonia. So far was I from being negligent in coming to you and delaying the fulfillment of my promise, that I even desired to come earlier. …

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