The Epistle to Corinth was a letter written by the 'brethren' ( gr, οι αδελφοι) of the

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to the church in

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, referred to in the

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, commending the Corinthian church to welcome the preacher

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: :"And when

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desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him" (). The letter is now

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. English biblical

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differ in their interpretation of the 'encouraging' ( gr, προτρεψάμενοι) role of the letter, as it can be interpreted as encouraging Apollos (e.g. the ASV translation: "the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples ..."), or as encouraging the Corinthian church (e.g. the

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: "the brothers wrote to encourage the disciples to welcome him"). The

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suggests it is "rather more consonant to the structure of the sentence and to the probability of the case that the exhortation was addressed to the Corinthian Church, and not to Apollos, who needed no such encouragement".Pulpit Commentary on Acts 18
accessed 3 October 2015

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