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Verse 1 Corinthians 4:13. _BEING DEFAMED_]
βλασφημουμενοι, Being _blasphemed_. I have already
remarked that βλασφημειν signifies to _speak_ _injuriously_,
and may have reference either to God or to m...
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BEING DEFAMED - Greek, Blasphemed, that is, spoken of and to, in a
harsh, abusive, and reproachful manner. The original and proper
meaning of the word is to speak in a reproachful manner of anyone,
wh...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Servants of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God. (1
Corinthians 4:1)._
2. Contrast Between Self-Glorification and Humiliation. (1 Corinthians
4:6).
3. Admonition to Beloved Ch...
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PAUL WILL ACCEPT NO JUDGMENT BUT CHRIST'S. THE FORTUNATE LOT OF THE
CORINTHIANS CONTRASTED WITH THE MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE APOSTLES.
This section is concerned with the attitude of the Corinthians...
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THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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Brothers, I have transferred these things by way of illustration to
myself and to Apollos, so that through us you may learn to observe the
principle of not going beyond that which is written, so that...
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DEFAMED. Greek. _blasphemeo._ But some texts read _dusphemeo._
INTREAT. App-134.
FILTH. sweepings. Greek. _perikatharma._ Only here.
OFFSCOURING. Greek. _peripsema._ Only here.
UNTO THIS DAY. Lite...
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_we are made as the filth of the world_ The word here translated
_filth_means (1) _that which is removed by cleansing_and (2) an
_expiatory sacrifice_, one who is delivered up to destruction, like
Jon...
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Contrast between the Corinthian Teachers and St Paul
8. _Now ye are full, now ye are rich_ Here we have one of the sudden
turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle's style. Abruptly
breaking off a...
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CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
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ΠΕΡΙΚΑΘΆΡΜΑΤΑ. The word means (1) that which is removed
by cleansing, (2) that which is cast away to make something else
clean, and hence (3) an expiation. κάθαρμα and καθαρμός
are more often used in...
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_A CAUTION AGAINST SINFUL PRIDE 1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-13:_ The faithless
stewards were acting like they were the source of the good things they
possessed. These faithless stewards were filled with destruc...
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ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med._/pass. _part. от_
ΔΥΣΦΗΜΈΩ (G987) хулить, ругать. Temp, или
уступительное _part._ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΫ́ΜΕΝ
_praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять,
утешать. Пережитое унижени...
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DISCOURSE: 1954
PAUL’S MEEKNESS
1 Corinthians 4:12. _Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we
suffer it: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the
earth, and are the offscouring...
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AS THE FILTH OF THE WORLD— The word περικαθαρματα,
rendered _filth,_ has a force and meaning, which no one word in our
language can express. It was applied to those poor wretches, who were
offered up...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Pompousness (1 Corinthians 4:6-13)
6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit,
brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written,...
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8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful
apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of
today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
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4:13 insulted, (a-1) Or 'spoken to injuriously.' entreat. (b-3) _
Parakaleo_ . The word has to be rendered very differently in English
in different places, and is hard to render, though simple and ea...
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PARAPHRASE. 'In speaking of the folly of these divisions I have used
only the names of Apollos and myself; but the same principles apply to
your attitude to all your teachers. (7) Why do some of you p...
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CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ONLY THE INSTRUMENTS OF GOD
The folly and sin of quarrelling about different teachers who are but
servants of Christ and responsible to Him....
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 4
PAUL THE SERVANT 4:1-5
V1 This is how people should think about us. We are Christ’s
servants. We are *stewards (keepers) of the secrets...
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THE FILTH OF THE WORLD. — The word here used for “filth” occurs
only in one other passage in the LXX. Proverbs 21:18, where it has the
idea of an additional expiatory sacrifice. Perhaps the word is us...
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CHAPTER 7
THE MINISTRY
So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party spirit in the
Church, that he has still one more word of rebuke to utter. He has
shown the Corinthians that to give the...
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1 Corinthians 4:11-12 _a_. ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας …
ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν describes the ἄτιμοι,
reduced to this position by the world's contempt and with no means of
winning its respect a life at the farthes...
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§ 13. DISCIPLES ABOVE THEIR MASTER. What the Ap. has written, from 1
Corinthians 3:3 onwards, turns on the relations between himself and
Apollos; but it has a wide application to the state of feeling...
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STEWARDS RESPONSIBLE TO THEIR LORD
1 Corinthians 4:1
At the most the ministers or teachers of God's Gospel are but stewards
of the hidden things of God, according to Matthew 13:51. They ought
not to...
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Christian teachers are "ministers of Christ." That defines their
responsibility. They are "stewards of the mysteries of God." That
defines their work. What dignity does this double statement suggest?...
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Paul's View of the Apostles' Position
In contrast to the Corinthians' lofty thoughts of themselves, Paul
gives his thoughts on the apostles' state. They suffered persecution
and would continue to suff...
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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the (h) filth of the world,
[and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.
(h) Such as is gathered together by sweeping....
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4. PRIDE THE FIRST CAUSE OF THE EVIL. 4:6-21.
Here is the final and general application of the whole first part,
relating to the divisions which had arisen in the Church. The apostle,
after reminding...
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“Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, are naked,
buffeted, without certain dwelling - place; 12. labour, working with
our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suf...
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(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to
think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be...
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13._As the execrations of the world. _He makes use of two terms, the
former of which denotes a man who, by public _execrations_, is
devoted, with the view to the cleansing of a city, (244) for such
pe...
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As for the apostle and the labourers, they were to consider them as
stewards employed by the Lord. And it was to Him that Paul committed
the judgment of his conduct. He cared little for the judgment m...
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BEING DEFAMED, WE ENTREAT,.... Being blasphemed, as the word
signifies, being evil spoken of, our good name taken away, and
characters hurt; we entreat or pray to God for them, that he would
convince...
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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, _and
are_ the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Ver. 13. _Being defamed, we entreat_] Though Luther call me devil,
saith Calvi...
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_We are fools_ In the account of the world, _for Christ's sake_
Because we expose ourselves to so many dangers and sufferings for his
cause: or because we preach the plain truths of the gospel, and af...
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The status of the heralds of salvation:...
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BEING DEFAMED, WE INTREAT; WE ARE MADE AS THE FILTH OF THE WORLD, AND
ARE THE OFFSCOURING OF ALL THINGS UNTO THIS DAY.
The behavior of the Corinthians had resulted in a most unfortunate
condition, nam...
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But while we are not to exalt a ministering servant, no more are we to
despise him or his work. The apostles should certainly be recognized
for what they actually were, "ministers of Christ, and stewa...
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BEING DEFAMED, WE ENTREAT: WE ARE MADE AS THE FILTH OF THE WORLD, THE
OFFSCOURING OF ALL THINGS, EVEN UNTIL NOW.
'being defamed, we entreat' -Paul applied his own preaching. (Romans
12:17) 'They answ...
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7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that
is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched
from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very abs...
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BEING DEFAMED, WE ENTREAT: we are blasphemed, Gr. that is, spoken evil
of, which is the same with _defamed_ in our language, men speak all
manner of evil of us to take away our reputation; but _we ent...
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being defamed, we entreat [Matthew 5:44]: _we are made as the filth of
the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now_. ["Filth"
indicates either rubbish swept up, or such foulness as is cle...
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
For when there is no evil desire within you, which might defile and
torment you, then do ye live in accordance with the will of God, and
are [the servants] of Chr...
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1 Corinthians 4:13 defamed G987 (G5746) entreat G3870 (G5719) made
G1096 (G5675) as G5613 filth G4027 wor
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THOSE WHO ARE TRUE TO THE WORD OF THE CROSS ENDURE SUFFERING FOR
CHRIST. THE CORINTHIANS NEED TO RE-EXAMINE THEIR FOUNDATIONS (4:6-13).
Paul now stresses that all that he has said has been with them...
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1 Corinthians 4:13. BEING DEFAMED, WE INTREAT in the sense of
returning soft words for calumnies. [1]
[1] See a Mace. xiii. 23 for this tense of the word (Meyer).
WE ARE MADE AS THE FILTH OF THE WOR...
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BEING DEFAMED WE INTREAT
(δυσφημουμενο παρακαλουμεν). The participle
δυσφημουμενο is an old verb (in I Macc. 7:41) to use ill,
from δυσφημος, but occurs here only in the N.T. Paul is
opening his ve...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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CONTENTS: Judgment of Christ's servants not committed to man.
Apostolic example of patience and humility.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Apollos, Timothy.
CONCLUSION: God's steward awaits no Judgmen...
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1 Corinthians 4:1. _Let a man,_ yea every one of you, however biassed
by parties, _so account of us,_ though servants for your sakes, _as
ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God,_ as...
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WHEN WE ARE INSULTED. Paul always returned good for bad, as Jesus said
to do (Matthew 5:44_; compare_ Romans 12:17-21). GARBAGE. SCUM. Paul
is still using the symbolism of "men condemned to die in pub...
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_Now ye are full … rich … as kings._
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTERFEIT AND THE REAL CHRISTIAN
I. The counterfeit--
1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher.
2. Is s...
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_We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ._
THE FOLLY OF PAUL
The better to serve Christ, Paul refrained from making acquirement of
knowledge his chief aim. And many others have reno...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:10 WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST’S
SAKE. Measured by the Corinthians’ “royal” standards (v. 1
Corinthians 4:8),
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CHAPTER IV.
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
S. Paul proceeds in his task of uprooting the divisions, the pride,
and the boasting of the Corinthians, and especially of some of their
teachers who held him in...
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_Being defamed, we entreat._ When we are reviled, called evil dealers
in evil arts, and railed at. The word "blaspheme" has this meaning
also in Titus 3:2. When thus treated we speak the meekness afte...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 4:6.—From 1 Corinthians 3:5 he has discussed what
applied to all the factions and their leaders, and even more to the
others than to the so-called Pauline and Apollonian...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 4:1
_Judgments, human and Divine, respecting ministers._
1 CORINTHIANS 4:1
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US. Since it is inevitable that Christians
should form some estimate of...
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Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God (1 Corinthians 4:1).
Ministers of Christ, the Greek word there is the under-rowers. They
were the guys d...
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Acts 22:22; Lamentations 3:45...
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Defamed [δ υ σ φ η μ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. Publicly slandered;
while reviled refers to personal abuse.
Intreat [π α ρ α κ α λ ο υ μ ε ν]. See on consolation,
Luke 6:24, and comfort, Acts 9:31. The sense is...
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CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP
1 Corinthians 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The names surrounding discipleship. Our chapter presents before us
several statements which remind us of the responsibility and
privile...
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We are made as the filth of the world, and offscouring of all things
— Such were those poor wretches among the heathens, who were taken
from the dregs of the people, to be offered as expiatory sacrifi...