5Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; …
And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-9)In this passage the apostle notifies and explains his purpose of visiting them, concerning which, observe, 1. His purpose: he intended to pass out of Asia, where he now was ( vide 1 Cor. 16:8 , 19 ) and to go through Macedonia into Achaia, where Corinth was, and to stay some time with them, and perhaps the winter, 1 Cor. 16:5 , 6 . He had long laboured in this church, and done much good among them…
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