2 Corinthians 2 Footnotes

2:13 Paul here mentioned going to Macedonia. The long passage (2:14–7:4) is regarded by some as extraneous on account of references to Macedonia (see 7:5: “when we came into Macedonia . . .”). It is far more likely Paul inserted this long, seemingly unrelated passage between two references to Macedonia than that someone else did. It is highly plausible that Paul himself, conscious of a long digression, reintroduced Macedonia to signal that he had resumed his recapitulation of events.