2 CORINTHIANS:
Volume 1 - Chapters 1-7
By Peter Naylor
Evangelical Press
368 pages. £16.95
ISBN 0 85234 502 X
Readers will have discovered in Paul's epistles, as did Peter, 'things hard to understand', especially in 2 Corinthians, perhaps the most difficult of his epistles. This study commentary by Dr. Peter Naylor is initially welcome, therefore. He helpfully threads his way through the background problems posed by this epistle, avoiding speculative modern theories.
The commentary follows the natural divisions of the first seven chapters, and subdivides into sectors, each of which concludes with 'Application'. In fairly full 'endnotes' reference is made to the Greek text and to other commentators. The author gives a scholarly exposition of the text, although sometimes does not consider alternative interpretations (cp.1.21-22).
