1 Corinthians 16:5

5-7. His first intention had been (2 Corinthians 1:15; 2 Corinthians 1:16) to pass through them (Corinth) to Macedonia, and again return to them from Macedonia, and so to Judea; this he had announced in the lost epistle (1 Corinthians 5:9); now having laid aside this intention (for which he was charged with levity, 1 Corinthians 5:9- :, c., whereas it was through lenity, 2 Corinthians 1:23 2 Corinthians 2:1), he announces his second plan of "not seeing them now by the way," but "passing through Macedonia" first on his way to them, and then "tarrying a while," and even "abiding and wintering with them."

for I do pass—as much as to say, "This is what I at last resolve upon" (not as the erroneous subscription of the Epistle represents it, as if he was THEN at Philippi, on his way through Macedonia); implying that there had been some previous communication upon the subject of the journey, and also that there had been some indecisiveness in the apostle's plan [PALEY]. In accordance with his second plan, we find him in Macedonia when Second Corinthians was written (2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2 Corinthians 9:2; 2 Corinthians 9:4), and on his way to Corinth (2 Corinthians 12:14; 2 Corinthians 13:1; compare Acts 20:1; Acts 20:2). "Pass through" is opposed to "abide" (Acts 20:2- :). He was not yet in Macedonia (as Acts 20:2- : shows), but at Ephesus; but he was thinking of passing through it (not abiding as he purposed to do at Corinth).