Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, so we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we really fully get started, we're starting St. Paul's second epistle to the

Corinthians this evening.

And before we start, start, obviously I don't have a lot of proper recap to do to catch us up to where

we are because we're at first one. But I am going to, as always do sort of an introduction

to the book. It's going to be a little different than some of the others because, of course,

this is 2nd Corinthians and we just went through 1st Corinthians.

So everything I said in my introduction to 1st Corinthians

about Corinth and all that,

which is available on ancient faith

to go back and listen to that introduction.

Obviously, it's the same city,

and it has the same history.

St. Paul is the same person writing to them.

And as we're going to see, once we get into the epistle, he's having to write them again

because they are having many of the same problems.

They have continued and in some cases gotten worse.

And so the couple of things I want to talk

about in this introduction though are, first of all, I just refer to it as St. Paul's second

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