II1. THE CLOSING OF THE LETTER, ‘THE CALL TO SIMPLICITY (8:1-13:14) I eters are marked by a shift from the theme i's next contact with the church, ee OF the body er throu "In Second Corinthians, Paul's ae oe dig ‘The closings of Paul toa reference to Pal tatives, orbya visit of his own. Strepresentatves, and his announcement of hi sections: an encourageme for Jerusalem (2 Cor 8: authority (2 Cor 1021-1384). "These two sections ofthe letterclosing ae suficiently diferent in gy, tentand tone from the preceding argument that a number of interp sr thc oily noth instances however ood eae change in topic and tone are appare thin the context of Pauls storm felations with the Corinthians, his concluding, brief expressions of confident in them in 75-16 are to be regarded as rhetorically motivated, intended ois 1. This marking ofthe turn from the body ofthe Funk, “The Apostolic ‘Shutis Presented to John Knox (ed. W. R. Farmer, C.D. Moule, and R.R. Niebuhr Ca idge University Press 1967), 250. Tha it has to do with the prepratio ote 's function of announcing the vist of Pau’ delegates ann his o Paul rejoicing at the perousia of Titus with good news from Corinth (75-16 e=-767).# isobvious, 8-5, 48 well as 1:1-1323, constitute distinct epistolary nit, both of which Few ipcoming visit to Corinth. Asis widely ona Schnider and Stenger, Studien 7°72 Beginning to end, are oriented to Paul the demarcation ofthe closing of lteri dificlt (see Pauls turn to speak ofa visitor his sending of delegate that shi as Funk has argued persuasively. The fact 100) doesnot eliminate its significance. We must They alvin communications, ih cone del wih mates that arent much xeon oP they are extensions ofthe intended efecto that argument. Above al