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Paul's Ministry in Asia—the Last Phase
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
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This article is an attempt to trace the course of events in the closing stages of Paul's ministry in Asia. I have in mind the period described in Acts xix. 2I-xx. I; viewed from another angle, it is the period following the writing of I Corinthians.
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page 211 note 1 As emphasized, for example, by Knox, W. L., St Paul and the Church of the Gentiles, p. 179.Google Scholar
page 211 note 2 Evidence of a less direct kind may also be adduced from Galatians (if it belongs to the Ephesian period), and from Romans.
page 212 note 1 Timothy had apparently left before I Corinthians was written. I question whether he went (as is often said) from Macedonia to Corinth: I Cor. xvi. 10 suggests a doubt about his going; and his name is not mentioned in II Corinthians.
page 212 note 2 i.e. Pentecost 55; did he perhaps mean to go then to another part of the province?
page 212 note 3 A doubtful alternative would be to hold that he is here interpreting the religious significance o an earlier experience.
page 212 note 4 I developed this thesis first in my book (1929) entitled St Paul's Ephesian Ministry (to be cited in this article as S.P.E.M.); and I returned to it, with some minor modifications of earlier positions, in a recent article in The Expository Times (March 1956).
page 214 note 1 For example, were there at this time other sea-journeys(II Cor. xi. 25) of which we have no record?
page 214 note 2 For example, did the painful visit come after Paul had finished (as he thought) his work in Asia? I took this line in S.P.E.M. where I made Paul interrupt his advance to Macedonia (I Cor. xvi. 5) by going from Troas to Corinth. T. W. Manson's reconstruction (John Rylands Library Bulletin, May-June 1942) that Paul went first to Corinth (painful visit), then to Macedonia (II Cor. i. i6), then to Troas (II Cor. ii. 12) and back to Macedonia, raises many serious difficulties.
page 215 note 1 Schürer, Jewish People, II, ii, 258; Juster, Les Juifs dans l'Empire romain, I, 191; II, 161 ff.
page 216 note 1 In my book I had pictured him as returning direct to Corinth
page 217 note 1 I see no need to regard chs. x-xiii as part of the painful letter.
page 217 note 2 W. Michaelis, who in his book Pastoralbriefe u. Gefangenschaftsbriefe has dealt with what I wrote in S.P.E.M. on the Pastorals, seems to me to exaggerate the difficulty of putting the two visits, to Nicopolis and to Corinth, into the same winter.
page 217 note 3 N.T.S. II (May 1956).