What Does 2 Corinthians 1:1 Mean?
Paul, a sent one of Jesus, the Anointed One, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the set-apart ones who are in all Achaia.
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:THE KEY
Paul’s title carries its commission inside it: he is a sent one, and the sending begins in God’s will.
THE MEANING
The voice reaching the reader here is a sent voice, with authority received through God’s will rather than self-claimed. The assembly belongs to God, and its people are set apart to him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Authority comes from a person’s own claim or title; this verse locates the sending in God’s will.
THE ROOT
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
to send forth, dispatch
“sent one” in this verse is apostolos. The title means “one sent,” carrying the act of being sent inside the name. Paul’s authority is presented as received through God’s will, not generated by the title itself.
ALSO GROWS
apostolē: sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch makes the sending itself visible: Paul’s role is a commission, not merely a status.
apostellō: send forth, dispatch
ἀποστέλλω
The verb shows the movement carried by the title: someone sends, and the sent one goes.
THE PATTERN
A sending takes its authority from the one who sends, rather than from the sender’s own claim.
Now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.THE THREAD
Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.The key term for Paul’s title means “one sent,” and this verse uses its matching verb for Jesus being sent and then sending others. Paul’s title belongs to the same pattern: sending comes from a sender and is then carried onward.
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