Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Corinthians 1:13

"For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:" — 2 Corinthians 1:13 (ASV)

For we write none other things . . .—The Greek presents a play on the two words “read” (ana-ginoskein) and “acknowledge,” or “know fully” (epiginoskein), which it is impossible to reproduce in English. It is as though he said: “I have no hidden meaning in what I write and you read. What you read you read correctly in its plain and simple sense. I hope” (the very hope implies that it had been otherwise) “that the more you know me, the more you will so read me and judge me even to the end, the great day when the Lord shall come and all things shall be made plain.” (Compare to 1 Corinthians 4:3–5).

Possibly, however, the words “even to the end” may be merely equivalent to “completely.” (See Note on John 13:1).