Commendation, Letters of

We read of these 2 Cor. 3:11Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? (2 Corinthians 3:1), and Acts 18:2727And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: (Acts 18:27). They were letters commending brethren from one assembly to another. Those generally known, such as Paul, did not of course need them. They form a valuable and scriptural guard against “false brethren creeping in unawares.”