SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:12
¶ Aunque tengo muchas cosas que escribiros, no las he querido escribir por papel y tinta; mas yo espero ir a vosotros, y hablar cara a cara, para que nuestro gozo sea cumplido.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 John 1:12
Verse 12. Having many things to write] That is, I have many things that I might write to thee, but I think it best not to commit them to paper, because I hope to visit thee shortly, and speak fully of those matters, which will be a means of increasing the comfort both of thee and thy family, as well as my own. There is more comfort in mutual interviews among friends than in epistolaty correspondence,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. Having many things to write unto you , etc.] Either on a civil, or on a religious account, concerning the state of the churches of Asia, and particularly Ephesus, and of private families and persons, and concerning the truths and doctrines of the Gospel; not that he had any new one, or any other than what they had heard from the beginning, to communicate to them, by word of mouth, for this he denies, ( 2 John 1:5,6); wherefore this makes nothing for the unwritten traditions of the Papists, and as if the Scriptures did not contain the whole of doctrine and of the will of God. I would not [write] with paper and ink ; any more than what was written: but I trust to come unto you ; where they were, but where that was is not known; very likely in some parts of Asia, and it may be not far from Ephesus, since any long journey would not have been fit for the apostle to have taken in this his old age: and speak face to face ; that is, freely and familiarly converse together about things omitted in this epistle: that our joy may be full ; in seeing one another's faces, and through hearing the things that may be talked of; and since the conversation would doubtless turn on divine and evangelic things, so fulness, or a large measure of spiritual joy, may be here intended. Instead of our joy, the Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin and the Ethiopic versions, read, your joy.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12, 13 - The apostle refers many things to a personal meeting. Pen and ink wer means of strengthening and comforting others; but to see each other i more so. The communion of saints should be maintained by all methods and should tend to mutual joy. In communion with them we find much of our present joy, and look forward to happiness for ever __________________________________________________________________
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