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2 Corinthians 2:12

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Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

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Verse 12, and so forth When I was come to Troas … and a door was opened to me, towards promoting the gospel, which I never neglect, yet I had no rest in my spirit; I remained still in a great concern for you, not meeting with Titus, from whom I expected with impatience to hear how all things went with you at Corinth: I went on, therefore, bidding them farewell at that time, and deferred the good I might do by a longer stay with them till another time. Witham.—Troas is the same town as the ancient Troy or Ilium, famous for its ten years’ siege, when it was destroyed by the Greeks in the year 1184, B. Christ. Estius.—Here, though there was a great promise of abundant fruit, Saint Paul’s solicitude to meet Titus, that he might learn from him the effect of his letter, made him depart from Macedonia, where he had much to suffer. V.

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