1 Corinthians 4:19 - Exposition

I will come to you shortly ( Philippians 2:24 ; 2 Timothy 4:9 ). He came soon after writing the Second Epistle. At this time he was preparing to leave Ephesus ( 1 Corinthians 16:8 ); his actual departure was precipitated by the tumult ( Acts 20:1-38 . l, 2). If the Lord will. The apostolic use of the phrase was something more than a mere form ( Romans 15:32 ; Hebrews 6:3 ; James 4:15 ); it expressed a real and humble spirit of dependence. Not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. He will use his gift of spiritual discernment to discover whether the haughty self assertion and sounding phraseology of these inflated partisans would not collapse when confronted with real authority. The "speech" was there in abundance; but was there anything genuine, any real spiritual force, behind it?