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  • From: Richard Fellows <rfellows AT intergate.ca>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Athens & the unity of 2 Cor
  • Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:30:12 -0800


Would anyone like to comment on the following suggestion?

2 Cor is a unity. While 1-9 is directed at the Corinthians, 10-13 is aimed
primarily at the Athenians. The false apostles had left Corinth and were
present in Athens at the time of writing. The tearful letter, and perhaps
also 1 Corinthians, had successfully combated their influence in Corinth. 2
Cor 10-13 was to achieve the same purpose for Athens. The false apostles
had been given letters of recommendation by the Corinthian church when they
went to Athens (3.1).

We might even suggest that the false apostles were members of the
Corinthian congregation, and not from outside Achaia, as is normally
assumed. If this is plausible, it would fit well with the work of Marshall
(Enmity in Corinth) and Winter (Philo and Paul among the Sophists), who
show that the false apostles were of the same breed as Paul's opponents in
1 Corinthians. Did the pedagogues (1 Cor 4.15) go walk-about in Achaia and
receive a warm welcome in Athens, incurring Paul's displeasure in 2 Cor 10-13?

J.D.H. Amador mentioned in his recent paper (NTS 46) that there may be
multiple audiences in 2 Cor. Does a reconstruction like the one above
satisfy his arguments for unity, while answering the arguments of the
partition theorists?

Richard Fellows
Vancouver
rfellows AT intergate.ca




  • Athens & the unity of 2 Cor, Richard Fellows, 02/13/2001

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