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1 Corinthians 4:8
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us; and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us; and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:8. _NOW YE_] Corinthians _are full_ of secular wisdom; _now_ _ye are rich_, both in wealth and spiritual gifts; (1 Corinthians 14:26:) _ye have reigned as kings_, flourishing in...
NOW YE ARE FULL - It is generally agreed that this is spoken in irony, and that it is an indignant sarcasm uttered against the false and self-confident teachers in Corinth. The design is to contrast t...
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...
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...
THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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...
NOW. Already. Notice the Figure of speech _Amplificatio_ (App-6). ARE FULL. have been filled. Greek. _koremnumi._ See Acts 27:38. WITHOUT. apart from. This is an instance of _Irony_ (App-6). WOULD T...
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...
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
ἬΔΗ ΚΕΚΟΡΕΣΜΈΝΟΙ ἘΣΤΈ. Here we have one of the sudden turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle’s style. Abruptly breaking off at the word ‘boast,’ he dashes off into an animated and ironical apos...
_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...
ΚΕΚΟΡΕΣΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ КОΡΈΝΝΥΜΙ (G2744) насыщать, наполнять; _pass._ насыщаться, иметь достаточно. Используется иронически: "вы думаете, что обладаете уже всей духовной пищей, в какой ну...
NOW—YE HAVE REIGNED, &C.— This is a proverbial expression, used to signifythe most splendid and affluent circumstances; and some think, that when the Apostle adds _I would to God ye did reign,_ he mea...
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,...
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. Irony. Translate [ eedee (G2235) kekoresmenoi (G2880)], 'A...
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...
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....
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...
NOW YE ARE FULL] The Apostle now returns to the use of sarcasm, the weapon he has already wielded with effect. The several sentences are either interrogative or exclamatory, and should have marks of i...
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...
NOW YE ARE FULL. — These three following sentences are ironical. The emphasis is on the word “now.” Ye are already (as distinct from us Apostles) full, rich, kings. You act as if you had already attai...
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...
§ 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...
depicts the unjustifiable “glorying” of the readers with an abruptness due to excited feeling (_cf._ the _asyndeton_ of 1 Corinthians 3:16): “How much you have received, and how you boast of it! So so...
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...
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?...
Thoughts on the Corinthians' Boasting No one man, even Paul or Apollos, should be followed in things not revealed by God. Paul used his and Apollos' name to avoid hurting the real leaders of the divis...
(9) Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. (9) He descends to a most grave mockery, to cause those...
Now you are satiated, &c. You great, vain preachers, you are rich in every kind, blessed with all gifts, &c. You reign over the minds of the people, without us, you stand not in need of our assistance...
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...
“Now ye are full; now ye are rich; ye have reigned as kings without us; and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you!” The asyndeton is a new evidence of emotion. The ἤδη, _now_...
(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...
8._Now ye are full _Having in good earnest, and without the use of any figure, beat down their vain confidence, he now also ridicules it by way of irony, (230) because they are so self-complacent, as...
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...
NOW YE ARE FULL,.... That is, in their own opinion: these words, and some following expressions, are an ironical concession. They were not full of God, and divine things; nor of Christ, and of grace o...
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. Ver. 8. _Now ye are rich_] _Crescit oratio, _ saith Piscator...
_Now ye are full_ The Corinthians abounded with spiritual gifts; and so did the apostles. But the apostles, by continual want and sufferings, were preserved from self-complacency. The Corinthians suff...
FULL-RICH; in their own estimation. REIGNED AS KINGS WITHOUT US; they imagined themselves possessed of great spiritual riches, knowledge, and power; able without the help of the apostles to succeed a...
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...
ALREADY ARE YE FILLED, ALREADY YE ARE BECOME RICH, YE HAVE COME TO REIGN WITHOUT US: YEA AND. WOULD THAT YE DID REIGN, THAT WE ALSO MIGHT REIGN WITH YOU. 'Already are ye filled' -'You seem to think...
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...
NOW YE ARE FULL, NOW YE ARE RICH; you that are the teachers at Corinth, or you that are the members of the church there, think yourselves full of knowledge and wisdom, so as you stand in need of no fu...
Already ye are filled [with self-satisfaction]_, already ye are become rich_ [with intellectual pride], _ye have come to reign without us_ [Ye have so exalted yourselves that we poor apostles have bec...
Tertullian On Modesty Again, of how open censure (does) the free expression (find utterance), how manifest the edge of the spiritual sword, (in words like these): "Ye are already enriched! ye are alr...
1 Corinthians 4:8 are G2075 (G5748) already G2235 full G2880 (G5772) are G4147 already G2235 rich G4147 ...
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...
‘Already you are filled, already you are become rich, you have reigned without us. Yes and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.' But that is what they have been doing, and su...
_Third_ reason why “we faint not” because the vessels which bear the treasure we bring to men are so utterly incommensurate with the salvation they are enriched with....
[1] The allusion may be, as has been suggested, to the practice of depositing treasure in vessels of earthenware....
1 Corinthians 4:8. NOW YE ARE FILLED, NOW YE ARE RICH, YE HAVE REIGNED AS KINGS WITHOUT US: YEA, AND I WOULD YE DID REIGN, THAT WE MIGHT REIGN WITH YOU. There is keen irony here: ‘A fine time of it ye...
ALREADY ARE YE FILLED? (ηδη κεκορεσμενο εστε?). Perfect passive indicative, state of completion, of κορεννυμ, old Greek verb to satiate, to satisfy. The only other example in N.T. is Acts 27:38 whic...
NOW YE ARE FULL _"Already are ye filled; already are ye become rich."_ Contrast (1 Corinthians 4:9); (1 Peter 1:4)....
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...
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...
ALREADY YOU HAVE EVERYTHING! Paul speaks in _irony!_ "Your followers have made you rich with their gifts to you. You have ruled as a _king,_ and despise us. I would be happy if you were real kings and...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:8 YOU HAVE BECOME KINGS. Paul speaks ironically of the Corinthians’ pride. ⇐...
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...
_Now ye are full._ This is, as Chrysostom, Theophylact, and Anselm say, ironical. Ye are filled with wisdom and grace, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and so it is your boast that you are not so muc...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:5; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Corinthians 4:18;...
Now ye are full [η δ η κ ε κ ο ρ ε σ μ ε ν ο ι ε σ τ ε]. Rev., better, filled. Ironical contrast between their attitude and that of the apostle in vers. 3, 4. We are hungering for further revelations;...
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...
Now ye are full — The Corinthians abounded with spiritual gifts; and so did the apostles: but the apostles, by continual want and sufferings, were kept from self — complacency. The Corinthians sufferi...
These words are looked upon by interpreters as an ironical reproof given by St. Paul to the Corinthians, in which with an holy derision he rebukes the over-weening and high opinion which they had of t...