1 Corinthians 16:6. But with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter which he actually did, as we learn from Acts 20:2-3, where it is said, “We came into Greece (meaning Corinth, its capital, with which he had most to do), and there abode three months,” which were “winter” months. The summer months of that year he had spent in Macedonia, and he had to be at Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 20:16); but as the Ægean Sea was not favourable for navigation till spring, he spent the intervening winter at Corinth, that ye may set me forward on my journey, or ‘accompany me a little way,' as this favourite phraseology means (Acts 15:3; Acts 20:38; Acts 21:5; Romans 15:24; 2 Corinthians 1:16; Titus 3:13; 3 John 1:6), whithersoever I go implying that his plans were not then definitely fixed.

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