Verse 6
b. Apostles not to be treated with arrogance, 1 Corinthians 4:6-8 .
6. In a figure By way of illustration.
Transferred Applied. Though the same things or utterances might be well predicated of other apostles and apostolic men, nay, even of all true ministers in all times, yet he had spoken them of Apollos and himself as representative cases.
Your sakes That you might understand the position in which, as your apostles, we stand.
Might learn in us By taking the example of Paul and Apollos they might learn that these true leaders shared not their strifes, and so return to unity and peace.
Above… written In the Scriptures of the Old Testament, the only Scripture perhaps then known to Corinth. The Scripture standard according to which they should think of men, is suggested by Paul in his quotations 1 Corinthians 3:20-21.
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