05-Paul & Weakness: The Background

We now reach the days of the new covenant. Even so, this
chapter might still seem to be a digression from the theme of
weakness. But it is not!
Paul was deeply anxious about the rise of the Judaising false
brothers (Acts 11:2; 15:1; Tit. 1:10, for example) - the
pseudadelphoi (2 Cor. 11:26), or, as he labelled them (or was it
their own description of themselves?), the super-apostles (2
Cor. 11:5,13; 12:11). Paul knew that their teaching was
destructive of the gospel. So concerned was he about their
cunning infiltration of the company of believers (Gal. 2:4; see
also Jude 4), that he wrote to several ekklēsia about them. He
was tormented by the knowledge that believers were accepting
the false gospel which such men - he dismissed them as
peddlers, hucksters, cheapjacks1 - were pedalling (2 Cor. 2:17).
Which was: „Unless you are circumcised according to the
custom of Moses, you cannot be saved‟ (Acts 15:1). Salvation
itself was at stake. This was the risk. Salvation.
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