Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 13:1

1 THis is the third time I am coming to you : In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established .

Not the third time when he was upon his journey, (for he was not now travelling) but the third time that he had taken up thoughts of, and was preparing for, such a journey. Which, it may be, he hinteth to them, that they might be the more afraid to continue in those sinful courses, which he had blamed them for.

He alludeth to the Law of God, Deut. 19.15. concerning Witnesses in any case. God ordered, that the Testimony of two or three persons should detemine all questions in their Law; and that should be taken for certain and established, which such a number of persons asserted. The Apostle would from hence have them conclude, that he would certainly come; because this was the third time that he had resolved upon it, and was preparing for it.

Marginal references: Chap. 12.14.; Deut 17.6.