Verse 3
3. Yet The reports by the household of Chloe indicate no advance in spirituality.
Carnal Fleshly. Though their strifes were what are distinctively called “sins of the spirit,” their existence proved to the apostle’s mind their fleshly quality. This use of the word flesh is not founded in the doctrine of the necessary evil of matter, but in the fact that our bodily appetites are so largely the source of temptation and sin.
Properly regulated fixed upon the right object in the right degree all our appetites, desires, and passions are right. It is in their exercise on the wrong object, or their exercise in excess, that the act of sin lies.
As men Note on 1 Corinthians 3:4.
Are ye not carnal True reading, are ye not men? in which men is a synonyme for unspiritual. So our Lord’s words, But beware of men. Matthew 10:17.
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