Barnes Notes on the Old & New Testaments - II Corinthians & Galatians

Excerpt from Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the GalatiansTitus had spent some time in Corinth. He had had an opportunity of learn ing the views of the parties, and of ascertaining the true condition of the church. This epistle is designed to meet some of the prevailing views of the party which was opposed to him there, and to refute some of the prevailing slanders in regard to himself. The epistle, therefore, is occupied to a considerable extent in refuting the slanders which had been heaped upon him, and in vindicating his own character. This letter also he sent by the hands of Titus, by whom the former had been sent, and he designed doubtless that the presence of Titus should aid in accomplishing the objects which he had in view in the epistle. See 2 Cor. Viii. 17, 18.