1 Corinthians 3:13

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. EVERY MAN'S WORK - each superstructure on the foundation. THE DAY - of the Lord (; ). "The day" - i:e., the day of days, the long-expected day. DECLARE IT - old English for 'make it clear,' (). IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE - it, i:e., "every man's work." 'He,' the Lord, whose day it is (2 Thessalonians 1:7). Literally, 'is being revealed (the present implies the cer...

13._For the day will declare it _In the old translation it is _the day of the Lord_, (179) but it is probable that the words _of the Lord _were added by some one by way of explanation. The meaning unquestionably is complete without that addition. For with propriety we give the name of _day _to the time when darkness and obscurity are dispelled, and the truth is brought to light. Hence the Apostle forewarns us, that it cannot always remain a secret who have acted fraudulently in the work of the Lord, or who have conducted themselves with fidelity, as though he had said: “The darkness will not always remain: the light will one day break forth; which will make all things manifest.” That day, I own, is God’s — not man’s, but the metaphor is more elegant if you read simply — _the day_, because Paul in this way conveys the idea, that the Lord’s true servants cannot always be accurately disting...

10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ourselves. But let every man take heed; there may be bad building on a good foundation. Nothing must be laid upon it, but what the foundation will bear, and what is of a piece with it. Let us not dare to join a merely human or a carnal life with a Divine faith, the corruption of sin with the profession of Christianity. Christ is a firm, abiding, and immovable Rock of ages, every way able to bear all the weight that God himself or the sinner can lay upon him; neither is there salvation in any other. Leave out the doctrine of his atonement, and there is no foundation for our hopes. But of those who rest on this foundation, there are two sorts. Some hold nothing but the truth as it is in Jesus, and...

Verse 1 Corinthians 3:13. _THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE_ _REVEALED BY FIRE_] There is much difference of opinion relative to the meaning of the terms in this and the two following verses. That the apostle refers to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem I think very probable; and when this is considered, all the terms and metaphors will appear clear and consistent. The _day_ is the time of punishment coming on this disobedient and rebellious people. And this day being _revealed by fire_, points out the extreme rigour, and totally destructive nature, of that judgment. _AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN'S WORK_] If the apostle refers to the Judaizing teachers and their insinuations that the law, especially circumcision, was of eternal obligation; then the _day_ _of fire_-

EVERY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST - What every man has built on this foundation shall be seen. Whether he has held truth or error; whether he has had correct views of piety or false; whether what he has done has been what he should have done or not. FOR THE DAY - The Day of Judgment. The great Day which shall reveal the secrets of all hearts, and the truth in regard to what every man has done. The event will show what edifices on the true foundation are firmly, and what are weakly built. Perhaps the word “day” here may mean time in general, as we say, “time will show” - and as the Latin adage says, _dies docebit_; but it is more natural to refer it to the Day of Judgment. BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE - The work, the edifice which shall be built on the true foundation shall be made known amidst the fire of the great Day. The “fire” which is h

EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 _The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature._ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 I… COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL. Though softened by the word brethren, there was a crushing irony of reproof in these words: "You thought yourselves quite above the need of my simple teaching. You were looking down on me from the whole height of your inferiority. The elementary character of my doctrine was after all the necessary consequence of your own incapacity for anything more profound." AS UNTO CARNAL. The true reading here is _sarkinois, _fleshen, not _sarkikois, _fleshly, or carnal; the later and severer word is perhaps first used in...

EVERY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST,.... The doctrine he preaches shall be sooner or later made manifest to himself, and to his hearers; who shall see the inconsistency, irregularity, and deformity of such a building; at first so well laid, then piled up with such excellent materials, and at last covered in with such trifling or incoherent stuff: FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT; meaning not the day of judgment, though that is often called the day, or that day, and will be attended with fire, and in it all secrets shall be made manifest; but the apostle intends a discovery that will be made of doctrines in this world, before that time comes: wherefore this day rather designs a day of tribulation; as of persecution, which tries men's principles, whether they are solid or not; and of error and heresy, when men are put upon a re-examination of their doctrines, whereby persons and truths th...

1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and great abilities. It was one of those churches that had given up the one-man system, where everybody talked as he liked a very knowing church, and a church of Christians, too; but for all that. Christian babies. And though they thought themselves to be so great, yet the apostle says that he never spoke to them as to spiritual: he kept to the simple elements regarding the carnal part as being too much in them as yet, to be able to drink down spiritual things. 1 Corinthians 3:2. _I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able._ How grateful we ought to be that there is milk, and that this milk

1 CORINTHIANS 3:13 @auvto,# The pronoun, which is absent from î46vid a D L Y 104 177 255 623 1912 itd vg syrh copsa, bo arm eth _al,_ is supported by such witnesses as A B C P 33 88 181 326 424 441 915 917 1836 1891 2127 syrp _al_. Even though the Committee suspected that copyists had omitted the word as pleonastic, yet because external evidence for its inclusion is relatively limited in range, it was decided to enclose the word within square brackets....

CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Carnal state of the Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 3:1)._ 2. The Workmen and their Work. (1 Corinthians 3:10). 3. The Church the Temple of God. (1 Corinthians 3:16). 4. Warning against Deception and Glorying in Men. (1 Corinthians 3:18). Their condition is next uncovered. They did not depend on the Spirit of God and did not enjoy the hidden wisdom and walk in it. They were carnal, mere babes in Christ, in the sense that their growth, their spiritual development had been arrested. Carnal (fleshly) is not equivalent to “natural.” The belie