We now reach the days of the new covenant. Even so, this chapter might still seem to be a digression from the theme of weakness. But it is not! Paul was deeply anxious about the rise of the Judaising false brothers (Acts 11:2; 15:1; Tit. 1:10, for example) – the pseudadelphoi (2 Cor. 11:26), or, as he labelled them (or was it their own description of themselves?), the super-apostles (2 Cor. 11:5,13; 12:11). Paul knew that their teaching was destructive of the gospel. So concerned was he about their cunning infiltration of the company of believers (Gal. 2:4; see also Jude 4), that he wrote to several ekklēsia about them. He was tormented by the knowledge that believers were accepting the false gospel which such men – he dismissed them as peddlers, hucksters, cheapjacks1 – were pedalling (2 Cor. 2:17). Which was: „Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved‟ (Acts 15:1). Salvation itself was at stake. This was the risk. Salvation.
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