1 Corinthians 16:5-7

“Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia; 6. and I will abide with you as long as I can, or even winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. 7. For I will not see you now by the way, for I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.”

It follows from this passage that Paul must have communicated to the Corinthians, either in the letter mentioned chap. 1 Corinthians 5:9, or verbally by Timothy, another plan, according to which he reckoned on proceeding first from Ephesus to Corinth, merely taking the latter city by the way to go thence to Macedonia; then to return to Corinth to make a prolonged stay. This plan he now finds himself obliged to modify; he will proceed first to Macedonia, and thence to Corinth. The present διέρχομαι, I pass through, is the present of idea: “My plan is to pass...” From this word, misunderstood, has arisen the error which is mentioned in the critical annotation placed at the end of the Epistle.