He could have written a column (a Corinthian column!) about it, instead wrote them another of his famous letters, 2nd Corinthians, which is “undoubtedly one of [his] most difficult,” says Mark A. Wauck in his intro to 2nd Corinthians found in his Letters of St. Paul(Pauline Books & Media, 1991),
It’s difficult not for any theological complexity, as in Paul to the Romans, but for its “intensely personal character and seeming lack of unity.”
Thing is, he was having a devil of a time with his converts in Corinth, whom he had recently left after two years of whipping them into shape. He writes now from Ephesus, a coastal city in what is now Turkey, an eight-day Aegean sea trip away, and Macedonia. (He’d left Corinth for a short trip to Palestine and Antioch, in Syria.)
He’d sent his man Titus to settle things in Corinth, where one troublemaker especially had to be disciplined…
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Blithe Spirit 