'CHAP. 1.-VER. 1. ΠΑΥΛΟΣ, κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστ τοῦ, διὰ θελήματος Θεοῦ, καὶ Σωσθένης ὁ ἀδελφὸς,

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, band Sosthenes our brother.

a See on Rom. i. ver. 1. clauses 1. 3. Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the syna.

gogue, and beat him before the judg

ment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things, Acts. xviii. 17.

VER. 2.

Τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ οὔσῃ ἐν Κοι ρίνθῳ, ἡγιασμένοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, κλητοῖς ἁγίοις, σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ αὐτῶν τε καὶ ἡμῶν·

Unto a the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified cin Christ Jesus, d called to be saints, e with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ four Lord, both their's and our's: ..

a And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord, with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee, to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them, Acts xviii. 8-11. For the same form of expression, see VOL. III.

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a See on Rom. i.ver. 7. clauses 4-7. VER. 4.

Εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Θεῷ μου πάντοτε περὶ ὑμῶν, ἐπὶ τῇ χάριτι τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ δοθείση ὑμῖν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ·

a I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

a See on Rom. i. ver. 8. clause 1.

VER. 5. Ὅτι ἐν παντὶ ἐπλουτίσθητε ἐν αὐτῷ, ἐν παντὶ λόγῳ καὶ πάσῃ γνώσει.

a That in every thing ye are enriched by him, bin all utterance, and in all knowledge;

a See on John i. ver. 16. clause 1.
b See on Acts ii. ver. 4. clause 2.
* See on John xiv. ver. 26. clause 3.

VER. 6.

Καθὼς τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐβεBain ev iμiv.

Even as the testimony of Christ was a confirmed in you:

a And they went forth, and preachB

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*Ος καὶ βεβαιώσει ὑμᾶς ἕως τέλους ἀνεγκλήτους ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

a Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

See on Rom. xiv. ver. 4. clause 2, bWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? Rom. viii. 33. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blemish, Eph. v. 27. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, Phil. ii. 15. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight, Col. i. 21, 22. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 1 Thess. iii. 13. And the very God

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of peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it, v. 23, 24. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless, 2 Pet. iii. 14. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, Jude 24.

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Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 6. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ, 10. Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, ii. 16. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent beat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up, 2 Pet. iii. 10.

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a Know, therefore, that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, Deut, vii. 9. Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds, Psal. xxxvi. 5. Nevertheless my ing-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, lxxxix. 33. Great is thy faithfulness, Lam. iii. 23. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, 1 Cor. x. 13. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it, 1 Thess. v. 24. But the Lord

is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil, 2 Thess, iii. 3. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself, 2 Tim. ii. 13. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Heb. x. 23. Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator, 1 Pet. iv. 19. And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True; and in righteousness doth he judge and make war, Rev. xix. 11.

b See on Rom. i. ver. 6. clause 2. c See on John vi. ver. 56.

d See on Matt. xiv. ver. 33. clause 2. e See on Luke ii. ver. 11. clause 3.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, a that there are contentions among you.

a For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one

saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 1 Cor. iii. 3, 4. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another, Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do

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ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren, vi. 6-8. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you, xi. 18, 19.

VER. 12.

Λέγω δὲ τοῦτο, ὅτι ἕκαστος ὑμῶν λέγει· Ἐγὼ μέν εἶμι Παύλου, ἐγὼ δὲ ̓Απολλῶ, ἐγὼ δὲ Κηφᾶ, ἐγὼ δὲ Χριστοῦ.

Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

VER. 13.

Μεμέρισται ὁ Χριστὸς; μὴ Παῦλος ἐσταυρώθη ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ἡ εἰς τὸ ὄνομα Παύ λου ἐβαπτίσθητε;

Is Christ divided? was Paul cruci

fed for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

VER. 14.

Εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Θεῷ ὅτι οὐδένα ὑμῶν ἐβάπτισα, εἰ μὴ Κρίσπον καὶ Γάϊον· I thank God that I baptized none of you, a but Crispus band Gaius ;

a And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord, with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized, Acts xviii. 8.

b See on Rom. xvi. ver. 23. clause 1. VER. 15.

Ἵνα μή τις εἴπῃ ὅτι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα ἐβάπτισα.

Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

VER. 16.

a And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God, 1 Cor. ii. 1. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 4. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us, 2 Cor. iv. 7. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds ;) x. 3, 4.

b That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God, 1 Cor. ii. 5.

VER. 18.

Ὁ λόγος γὰρ ὁ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῖς μὲν ἀπολλυμένοις μωρία ἐστὶ, τοῖς δὲ σωζομένοις ἡμῖν δύναμις Θεοῦ ἐστι.

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a For the preaching of the cross bis to them that perish foolishness; e but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

a But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness, ver. 23. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, ii. 14.

b For we are unto God a sweet sa

vour of Christ, in them that are saved,

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and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, iv. 3.

See on Rom. i. ver. 16. clause 3.

VER. 19.

Γέγραπται γάς· ̓Απολῶ τὴν σοφίαν τῶν σοφῶν, καὶ τὴν σύνεσιν τῶν συνετῶν ἀθετήσω.

a For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

a Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understandof their prudent men shall be hid, Isa. xxix. 14.

VER. 20.

Ποῦ σοφός; ποῦ γραμματεύς; ποῦ συζητητὴς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου; Οὐχὶ ἐμώρανεν ὁ Θεὸς τὴν σοφίαν τοῦ κόσμου τού

του ;

a Where is the wise; where is the

scribe? where is the disputer of this world? bhath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

a Where is the Scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? Isa. xxxiii. 18.

b See on Matt. vi. ver. 23. clause 2.

VER. 21.

̓Επειδὴ γὰς ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐκ ἔγνω ὁ κόσμος διὰ τῆς σοφίας τὸν Θεὸν, εὐδόκησεν ὁ Θεὸς διὰ τῆς μωρίας τοῦ κη ρύγματος σῶσαι τοὺς πιστεύοντας.

a For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, bit pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them thut believe.

a Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an