2. Lawsuits... iii. Exhortation to chastity..vi.12-20 iv. On marriage .........vi. 1, 10, 25, 36, 39 V. Things offered to idols. viii. 1, 2, 13; ix. 27; x. 1; xi. 1 vi. On a woman veiled ............xi. 2 vii. On the Lord's Supper .xi. 17 viii. On spiritual gifts ......xii., xiii., xiv. ix. On the Resurrection xv. 1, 12, 29, 35 x. On the collection, &c. xvi. 1, 5, 10, 12-14 III. THE CONCLUSION......xvi. 15,17, 19, 20 (See Gnomon, iii. 199, Clark's Ed.) ii. Lawsuits... The lost Epistle.-" Much dif. has been felt in regard to v. 9, whether or no a prior epistle had been written. The best critics are now inclined to answer in the affirmative. It is not, however, to be supposed that anything has been lost fr. the canon. An earlier letter, even if written by inspiration and no longer extant, had accomplished its end. . . . What God's good providence designed for perpetual use we have.”—Treas. of Bib. Knowledge. "To imagine that every writing of an inspired Apostle must necessarily have been preserved to us, is as absurd as it would be to imagine that all his sayings must necessarily have been recorded. The providence of God, wh. has preserved so many precious portions, both of one and the other, has also allowed many, perhaps equally precious, to pass into oblivion."-Alford. On v. 9, Pelagius understands the Apostle to mean the Epistle wh. he was then writing; which I take to be right." -Lardner, iv. 592; see also v. 58.-" (1) St. P. had been absent fr. Cor. for three years. It is prob. that some communication by letter had been made during that time. (2) He refs. here to something written by him, wh. is not found in any extant Epis. to the Cors. (3) He contrasts his present with some former writing, and explains what he wrote then by what he writes now. (4) Therefore the ref. here is to some Epis. of St. P. wh. is not now extant. (5) This conclusion is perfectly consistent with the position that 'no canonical book of Holy Scripture has been lost."-Wordsworth. inscription and salutation a Ro. i. 1. CHAPTER THE FIRST. 1-3. Paul.. Apostle a [iii. 260]. Jesus Christ, or rather Christ Jesus. through.. God, source of his authority. Sosthenes, prob. not S. bef. mentioned. Some sup. him to have been P.'s amanuensis. Church.. Corinth, a Church b Tischendorf, Al-maintained by grace of God even in that notoriously immoral place (for Corinth, see intro.). sanctified, counted holy. called saints, called to be holy. with all.. our's, i.e., "in other parts of the world besides your own, He is the Lord of all of ford. c Ac. xviii. 17. Stanley thinks and Cor. may be the S. of Acts identical. d Stanley. e Olshausen. them, no less than of me and of you. peace, the word has pecul. force here, bec. of dissension in the Church. The Epistle to the Corinthians described.-I. The designation of the writers. II. The description of the persons addressed. The Church exists to exhibit-1. Self-devotion; 2. Sanctity; 3. UniF. W. Robert-versality; 4. Unity. III. The benediction. son, M.A. midst of the sea prosperous gale its wished - for Names of the Church.-Assembly of the Saints; Assembly of "As a ship in the the Upright; Body of Christ; Branch of God's Planting; Bride goeth not to- of Christ; Church of God; Church of the Living God; Church of wards the haven the First-born; City of the Living God; Congregation of Saints ; unless it have a Congregation of the Lord's Poor; Dove; Family in Heaven and of wind, even so Earth; Flock of God; Fold of Christ; General Assembly of the the Church of First-born; Golden Candlestick; God's Building; God's HusGod goeth not to bandry; God's Heritage; Habitation of God; Heavenly Jerusalem; haven, unless it Holy City; Holy Mountain; Holy Hill; House of God; House of the God of Jacob; House of Christ; Household of God; Inheritance; Israel of God; King's Daughter; Lamb's Wife; Lot of God's Inheritance; Mount Zion; Mountain of the Lord of Hosts; Mountain of the Lord's House; New Jerusalem; Pillar and Ground of the Truth; Place of God's Throne; Pleasant Portion; Sanctuary of God; Sister of Christ; Spiritual House; Spouse of Christ; Strength and Glory of God; Sought out, a City not Forsaken; Tabernacle; The Lord's Portion; Temple of God; Temple of the Living God; Vineyard. be blown with the Spirit of God, and directed and set on by the same Spirit." Cawdray. g Bate. 4-6. behalf, concerning you. enriched,a with spiritual gifts. in.. utterance, with all sorts of language. knowledge, of Divine truth and inner life. testimony," witness borne to Christ by preaching of Paul. was.. you, by their gifts. The blessings imparted by the Gospel.-The blessings which the Gospel-I. Imparts: 1. An enlightened mind, 2. A waiting spirit; II. Secures: 1. The continued preservation of believers, 2. Their ultimate acceptance. Application-(1) Be thankful if you are partakers of this grace; (2) Be careful to walk worthy of it; (3) Remember in Whom is all your strength.c Changes in the Church.-As Elisha's spirit was doubled, so Saul's spirit departed. As the Gentiles become believers, so the Jews become infidels. As Saul becometh an Apostle, so Judas becometh an apostate. As John groweth in the Spirit, so Joash decayeth in the Spirit. As Zaccheus turneth from the world, so Demas turneth to the world. As Lydia's heart was opened, so Pharaoh's heart was hardened.d b с their gifts, patience, and end 7, 8. ye.. behind, i.e., ye are second to none; ye are not wanting in any. coming,a revelation, i.e., His appearing in glory as Judge. confirm, establish, give you grace to be firm. end, of your course. blameless, without accusation. day. Tit. ii. 13; Ph. Christ, the day when He shall be revealed in glory as Judge. iii. 20; He. x. 36, The uncertainty of Christ's coming.-I. This blending of light 37; Col. iii. 4. and obscurity leaves us in a state more suitable and more profit-b Ph. i. 6; 1 Th. able than either absolute ignorance or perfect knowledge: 1. It v. 23, 24. awakens feelings which the former would fail to excite, and which c 1 Th. iii. 12, 13; -2. The latter would quench as they arose. II. It is specially adapted to keep alive expectation, by bringing emphatically before us the perpetual possibility of an immediate manifestation. It keeps us in a state of-1. Lively hope; 2. Watchfulness; 3. Humility; 4. Fidelity; 5. Earnest inquiry after truth; 6. Reverence and dread.d Col. i. 21, 22. faithful servants and takes care that nothing be want ing, but, if they are unfaithful, he reverses them; even so God, the true owner of the earth and all that his treatment of Test of Christians.-When Constantine was chosen emperor, he found several Christians in office; and he issued an edict, requiring them to renounce their faith, or quit their places. Most of them gave up their offices to preserve their consciences; but some cringed, and renounced Christianity. When the emperor had thus made full proof of their dispositions of character, he removed all who thus basely complied with his supposed wishes, and retained the others; saying, that those who would desert or Cawdray. deny their Divine Master would desert him, and were not worthy d Archer Butler, of his confidence. dwell therein." M.A. 9. faithful," to His purpose, to His promise, to the relation they were in which He now stands to you. called, effectually; outwardly, called of God by His Word; inwardly, by His Spirit. fellowship, union, a 2 Th. iii. 3; companionship; allied with Him in work here, in glory hereafter. He. x. 23; 1 Co. Lord, master, owner. ; Faithful is He that calleth you.-Consider-I. How God deals with you, in so calling you as to unite you to His Son. Faithfully throughout; in all His dealings He is faithful. Faithful-1. In discovering to you your case; 2. In commending to you His Son 3. In presenting Christ to you, in free gift, as yours; 4. In not repenting of His call. II. The end of this calling. You are united to His Son, and to such an effect as to have all things in common:-1. Common interests. The interests which Christ has as (1) God's ally, are identical with those of the Father; (2) His Son, are identical with ours. 2. A common character. 3. A common history. With respect to—(1) A birth, (2) A baptism, (3) A work, (4) A cross, (5) A crown.d x. 13. 6 Ro. viii. 28-30. Jo. xv. 4; Ga. ii. 20; 1 Jo. i. 3; iv. 13. "The holiness of is the Church like the holiness of the Spirit; it is the tone of its the absence of every jarring detriment; it is and impairing entire character, its taste for such shall as appear free Joining the Church.-Many men seem to think that religion an exercise of consists of buying a ticket at the little ticket-office of conversion. its virtues They conclude that they will make the voyage to heaven. They from their oppounderstand that a man must be convicted and converted, and site sins and join the Church; and, when they have done that, they think their semblant they have a ticket, which, under ordinary circumstances, will counterfeits."Dr. Jenkyn. carry them through. Their salvation is not altogether sure. A man may be cast away upon a voyage. But still they say, I have got my ticket, and, if no accident occur, it will carry me to my destination safely; and all I have to do is to have patience and faith." And they are like a man that is riding in the cars, who, every time the conductor comes round, shows his ticket. They say, "I was awakened, I saw that I was a sinner, and trusted my soul in the hands of Christ." Yes: you have trusted it there, d Dr. Candlish. being communion; so all that is in Him is for us."-Trapp. e H. W. Beecher. he has heard of divisions a "Locke is of opinion that the the names leaders whereby 1. CORINTHIANS. [Cap. i. 10-13. and there you have left it ever since you thought you were converted. Are there not hundreds and thousands who are living in just the same way ?e 10, 11. name," authority, person. speak..thing, be of same opinion, agree to same measures. divisions, schisms, factions, parties. perfectly, firmly, compactly. joined,' as memApostle, intend- bers of one body. mind, affection. judgment, touching pracing to abolish tical matters. declared, told, I have been informed. by them, of he gives his authority; he does not receive it, or will not regard the parties dis- it as private information. Chloe (green herb). contentions, tinguished them-violent contentions; divisions, not from, but within the Church. selves, besought How controversies among Christians ought to be managed.-I. name of Christ." We should suffer ourselves to be taught by the undeniable proofs -Macknight. of the power of God. II. We should search the Scriptures, and consent to them.d them by the b Ep. iv. 1-6; Ro. xv. 5; 2 Co. xiii. 11; Ph. i. 27; ii. 2; 1 Pe. iii. 8. History of the Church.-I thought that the history of the Church might be illustrated by the course of such a river (the Rhone). Born above the clouds; dashing down the mountains in its youthful purity and power; wearing for itself channels in c"The Gk. for the first green the solid rock; overcoming every obstacle; now tortured and torn shoot of plants, in craggy defiles; now reposing in some placid lake which reflects and is emblema- the azure and the stars of heaven; coming forth from paradises of beauty, and in a wider field rolling through the open country, receiving, indeed, many corrupt admixtures, yet purifying them more than they corrupt it; and though with waters, alas, too much mingled with earthly elements, yet in a fuller tide than ever, spreading fertility over the land as it approaches nearer and nearer the great ocean.e tic, doubtless, of youthful grace and beauty."Wilkinson, Pers. in Bib. names 520. d Lisko. e N. Hall. party names a Stanley. b 1 Co. xi. 19. c Lachmann. d 1 Co. iii. 3-7. a 1 distinctions 12, 13. this, as an example of what I mean. say, mention. every.. saith, "There is none of you who has not joined one or other of the parties."a Paul.. Cephas, prob. nothing more is meant than they ranged themselves in parties on personal grounds. Still there may be some allusion to the distinctive doctrines, or modes of teaching, of those named. Paul-some would "Denomination-be attached to him, as his converts. Apollos-mighty in the drop away at Scriptures-some attracted by the splendour of his eloquence. the edge of Cephas, or Peter, the Apostle of the circumcision, whose stricter eternity."-Buck-practices others may have affected. Christ, some may have even heard Him, and claimed prominence on that ground. is.. "You cannot divided? or "Christ is divided;" i.e., by these factions you are have pardon and justification, or dividing the Church and the ministers of Christ. was Paul? glory, without etc., the answer is, "No;" therefore let Christ be your Head, sanctification; and you all one in Him. nell. nor the comforts of Christ, with- Belonging to Christ.—What these words signify-I. To own His out the guidance essential dignity. II. To acknowledge His Divine mission. III. and government To believe in His doctrines. IV. To rely on His sacrifice. V. To of Christ; you love His person. VI. To obey His will. Schisms.-Is Christ none."-Baxter. divided in-I. His person? II. His offices? III. His salvation? IV. His Church ?e must have all or e W. W. Wythe. joint men; yea, Sentimental Christians.-There are certain minerals, such as quartz, fluor spar, and the diamond, which, when rubbed against each other, or exposed to a considerable degree of heat, will, when removed to a dark place, throw off very beautiful light, although before opaque. This is called phosphorescence. So there are some Christians, like these stones, who are cold and dark in themselves, but under the influence of eloquence, sympathy, etc., of their wits.”— are excited to earnest glows of love, and zealous actions of good Trapp works./ f Hitchcock. 14–16. thank.. you, hence you are without excuse in set- he baptized ting me up as the head of a party. P. plainly meant that he was none thankful, for his argument's sake, that he could say it had hap-a Ac. xviii. 8. pened so. Crispus,a form. ruler of synagogue. Gaius, once Ro. xvi. 23. the host of P. any, for party purposes. that.. name, and c 1 Co. xvi. 15. hence have an excuse for saying, "I am of Paul." Stephanas (crown), aft. mentioned with commendation. know, recollect. At first P. seemed to have remembered only Crispus and Gaius. Sacraments.-I. Their peculiar meaning-1. Their value; 2. Their blessedness. II. The end which they serve. III. The compromise which St. Paul refused to make. The wisdom of which he speaks (v. 21) appears to have been of two kinds-1. Speculative philosophy; 2. Wisdom of words-eloquence.d "Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party spirit of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own and ears, eyes and resolve to believe nothing that does not those whom they profess to follow." Dr. Johnson. d F. W. Robertson. Faction and party.-The term party has of itself nothing odious, that of faction is always so. Any man, without distinction of rank, may have a party, either at court or in the army, in the city or in literature, without being himself immediately implicated favour in raising it; but factions are always the result of active efforts. One may have a party for one's merit, from the number and ardour of one's friends; but a faction is for their own purposes. Rome was torn by the intestine factions of Cæsar and Pompey; France, during the Revolution, was successively governed by some ruling faction, which raised itself upon the ruins of that which it had destroyed. Faction is the demon of discord armed with the power to do endless mischief, and intent alone on destroying special occurwhatever opposes its progress. Woe to that state in which it has rence."-Trapp. found an entrance: party spirit may show itself in noisy debate, but while it keeps within the legitimate bounds of opposition, it is an evil that must be endured.e e G. Crabb. "God is to be seen in every his work not but to preach to baptize, 17, 18. baptize.. preach, two departments of work. P.'s mission to preach. Baptism performed by inferiors; not perh. necessarily, but by reason of number awaiting baptism. not.. a Jo. iv. 2 cf.; words, "wisdom which consists in mere words;" learned Ac. viii. 12, 16; speech. The Corinthians not to value themselves on the learning ii. 41; ix. 18; x. and eloquence of their teachers. cross.. effect, the effect of 48; xix. 3, 5, 6. preaching being attributed to human learning or eloquence, rather than to the cross; the glory of the cross obscured by a cloud of cStanley. "Using words. preaching.. cross, Gk., the word of the cross, the philosophical arsimple, unvarnished story. foolishness, when ungarnished by guments exthe flowers of rhetoric. saved, fr. sin, fr. heathenism. power rical language." .. God, as the results of that preaching show. -Macknight. b 1 Co. ii. 1, 4, 13; 2 Co. x. 10. pressed in rheto e 2 Co. iv. 7; Ro. i. 16; 2 Co. x. wisdom here forbidden The cross of Christ of none effect.-What makes the cross of d 1 Co. ii. 14. Christ of none effect?-I. The making it identical with the crucifix, as though the cross of Christ were nothing more than His 4, 5. crucifixion. II. The exhibition of false doctrine and of specula-“The tion concerning it. III. Its exhibition without a personal recog- was not the senition of its claim. IV. The multiplication and complication of lection of the its requirements. V. Lack of faith in its power. VI. Its use for objects foreign to itself. Application-What is the effect of Christ's cross-1. Upon yourselves? Upon (1) The child of Christian parents? (2) The pupil of a Christian school? (3) The hearer of Christian preaching? (4) Christian brethren? 2. In your hands ? best words and placing them in the best order for the statement of Divine truth; but such a mode of |