2 Corinthians 10:14; Stretch Not Beyond Our Measure
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
In the Apostle Paul’s second missionary journey in which the church of Corinth was established, was recorded by Luke the beginning of that journey in Acts 15:40 “And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.” The poet Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) aptly described “grace” in the words of the hymn entitled “Grace! ‘Tis a Charming Sound” that is the throbbing heartbeat of the missionary in Ephesians 2:8:
Grace! ‘tis a charming sound
Harmonious to the ear
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the earth shall hear.
Saved by grace alone!
This is all my plea:
Jesus died for all mankind
And Jesus died for me.
In the second missionary journey recorded in Acts 15:36-18:22, according to Scroggie, the occupied 2 ½ – 3 years and the distance travelled was 2800 miles (1230 miles by sea and 1570 miles by land) from A.D. 50-53. The first and second Epistles to the Thessalonians were written respectively in A.D. 52 and A.D. 53.
It was a true record of the grace of God.