Excerpt from The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Vol. 2 of 2: With Critical Notes and Dissertations The First Epistle had been received, and by those for whom it had been mainly intended, entirely appreciated. The lax and licentious party who, whether from misun derstanding or perverting the Apostle's teaching, had used his name as a watchword for their excesses, were levelled to the dust. Some complaints there were of the Apostle's change of purpose in not coming to them direct from Ephesus5; some cause still remained for fear lest the intercourse with the heathen should be too unrestrainedg; but on the whole, the submission of the mass of the Corinthian Church to the Apostle's direc tions was complete. They received Titus with open arms7; and in the matter of the incestuous marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.