2 John 1:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

2 John 1:12 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

3 John 1:13-14
I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: …
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
1 Corinthians 16:5-7
Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. …
John 17:13
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
1 John 1:4
And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-13)

The apostle concludes this letter, 1. With an adjournment of many things to personal conference: Having many things to write unto you I would not write with paper and ink; but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. Here it is supposed that some things are better spoken than written. The use of pen and ink may be a mercy and a pleasure; but a personal interview…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. I would not write--A heart full of love pours itself out more freely face to face, than by letter. paper--made of Egyptian papyrus. Pens were then reeds split. ink--made of soot and water, thickened with gum. Parchment was used for the permanent manuscripts in which the Epistles were preserved. Writing tablets were used merely for temporary purposes, as our slates. face to face--literally, “mo…