Whether the Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians is a single document or a compilation of two or more, and the question of Paul's relations with the Corinthian church between the dispatch of the Fist Epistle and the composition of the Second letter(or letters), have been matters of debated since the eighteenth century.Margaret THrall's commentary engages with these and all the other issues associated with Second Corinthians. There follows a detailed verse by verse exegesis of chapters 1-7, which attempts to understand the viewpoint of the original readers of the text as well as Paul's own.