Adventistische Schriften über: "Did Paul not travel to Corinth a second time, but instead write a letter?"

Paul initially decided against traveling personally to Corinth immediately, because he knew that the congregation in its present condition would not benefit from an immediate visit; instead he sent Titus ahead and wrote a detailed teaching and admonition letter. However, this decision did not mean a final relinquishment of a visit, for after several unavoidable delays Paul eventually did travel to Corinth.

Paul sends Titus and writes a letter instead of an immediate visit

»He would gladly have visited Corinth immediately if that had been the wisest way. But he knew that the believers in their present condition would not benefit from his work, and therefore he sent Titus to prepare the way for a later visit by himself. Then the apostle set aside all personal feelings regarding the behavior of those whose conduct had revealed such strange perversion, kept his soul firmly directed toward God, and wrote to the congregation in Corinth one of the richest, most instructive, and most powerful of all his letters.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Acts of the Apostles (AA 300.4)

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Paul finally reaches Corinth

»After many unavoidable delays Paul finally reached Corinth, the setting of so much concerned work in the past and for a time the object of deep care. He found that many of the earlier believers still regarded him with affection as the one who had first brought them the light of the gospel.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, The Acts of the Apostles (AA 372.1)

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