The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature. read more
1 Coríntios 3:1-11 Nvipt
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
Spiritual condition of these Corinthian partisans characterized. These men were in a low state of Christian development, their growth in grace having been arrested by the jealousy and strife dominant in their midst. Under such circumstances, personal progress and Church progress were impossible. Individual self assertion and arrogance could net but lead to the depreciation of others, nor could envious rivalries tolerate merit and worth in those whom it sought to crush. On the other hand,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-8
Reflections for Churches. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual," etc. In these verses are three subjects worthy of the profoundest contemplation. I. THE GRADUATING METHOD OF TEACHING . "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk," etc. Truth is to be administered with a practical regard to the receptive powers of the student, just as the administration of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Christian teachers and their work. The apostle has still in view the dissensions prevailing in the Corinthian Church. Throughout the first four chapters this subject is never absent from his mind, even when it is most in the background. The spirit of party, with the various phases of thought and life that found expression therein, suggests the several topics on which he enlarges. I. THE CHRISTIAN TEACHER ADAPTS HIS TEACHING TO THE CAPACITIES OF HIS HEARERS . ( ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk. The metaphor is expanded in Hebrews 5:13 , "Every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the Word of righteousness; for he is a babe." The same metaphor is found in Philo; and the young pupils of the rabbis were called "sucklings" ( תוקונית ) and "little ones" (camp. Matthew 10:42 ). Not with meat; not with solid food, which is for full grown or spiritually perfect men ( Hebrews 5:14 ). For hitherto; rather, for ye were not yet— when I... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal. This is the reason for the spiritual dulness which your pride prevents you from recognizing. Envying, and strife, and divisions . The two latter words are omitted in some of the best manuscripts, and may have been added from Galatians 5:20 . Partisanship and discord, the sins of the Corinthians—sins which have disgraced so many ages of Church history—are works of the flesh ( Galatians 5:19 ), and involve many other sins ( James 3:16 ), and are therefore sure... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one saith, I am of Paul . This is a proof that there were jealousies and partisanships among them. We again notice the generous courage of St. Paul in rebuking first those adherents who turned his own name into a party watchword. Are ye not carnal? The true reading is, "Are ye not men?" ( א , A, B, C, and so the Revised Version); i.e. Are ye not swayed by mere human passions? The Spirit which you received at baptism ought to have lifted you above these mean rivalries. You... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul? The better reading is what? ( א , A, B). The neuter would imply a still greater depreciation of the importance of human ministers. Ministers. The same word as that rendered "deacons" ( diakonoi ) ; "ministers of Christ on your behalf" ( Colossians 1:7 ). Through whom ye believed. Through whom," not " in whom" (Bengel). They were merely the instruments of your conversion. In the second Epistle ( 2 Corinthians 3:3 ) he calls them "the epistle of Christ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-7
Man's work and God's. Explain the agricultural figure used in 1 Corinthians 3:6 . In the production of the year's harvest many different agencies are employed. Each man has work and his time for work, and upon man's labour the harvest in large measure depends. Yet sun, and wind, and rain, and atmosphere, and soil, are things quite as essential as man's work, but absolutely out of man's control. Year by year man ploughs, man plants, man tends, but God gives the increase. So in spiritual... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1
The carnal mind. In view of St. Paul's description of the immoralities and sensualities of the pagan peoples, given in Romans 1:1-32 ., and in special lists of prevailing iniquities, such as are given in Galatians 5:19-21 , his sense of the hindrance the carnal mind presents to the reception of spiritual teachings can be fully apprehended. Probably the severest thing St. Paul said about the carnal mind is that it is "enmity against God: for it is net subject to the Law of God, neither... read more