Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 1:26
Behold your calling — What manner of men they are whom God calls. That not many wise men after the flesh — In the account of the world. Not many mighty — Men of power and authority.
Behold your calling — What manner of men they are whom God calls. That not many wise men after the flesh — In the account of the world. Not many mighty — Men of power and authority.
Verse 26. _YE SEE YOUR CALLING_] την κλησιν. The _state_ of grace and blessedness to which ye are _invited_. I think, βλεπετε την κλησιν, c., should be read in the imperative: _Take heed to_, or _con...
FOR YE SEE YOUR CALLING - You know the general character and condition of those who are Christians among you, that they have not been generally taken from the wise, the rich, and the learned, but from...
2. CONTRASTS. CHAPTER 1:10-4). CHAPTER 1:10-31. _ 1. Divisions rebuked. (1 Corinthians 1:10)._ 2. The Cross of Christ, the Power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:17). The section which begins, after the in...
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5. THE CROSS, FOLLY TO THE WORLD, IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD. Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17_ b_, which to Greek readers must have soun
Brothers, just look at the way in which you have been called. You can see at once that not many wise men--by human standards--not many powerful men, not many high-born men have been called. But God ha...
AN APOSTOLIC INTRODUCTION (1 Corinthians 1:1-3)...
YE. Omit. SEE. App-133. CALLING. Greek. _klesis._ See Romans 11:29. Here it means the way ye were called, i.e. the kind of persons whom God sent to call you. Hence instead of "are called" as in Autho...
_For ye see your calling, brethren_ or perhaps, BEHOLD YOUR CALLING. So Vulgate, Wiclif and Tyndale. The Apostle adds an illustration of his paradox in 1 Corinthians 1:25. The truth is exemplified in...
God's Message not intended to flatter the pride of man 18. _For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God_ Literally, TO THEM TH...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ ΓᾺΡ ΤῊΝ ΚΛΗ͂ΣΙΝ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. Perhaps, BEHOLD YOUR CALLING. So Vulgate, Wiclif and Tyndale. The Apostle adds an illustration of his paradox in 1 Corinthians 1:25. The truth is exemplified in the grow...
GOD’S MESSAGE NOT INTENDED TO FLATTER THE PRIDE OF MAN...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) искать, смотреть на кого-л. или чтол. ΓΆΡ (G1063) ибо. Пояснительное: "вы можете видеть, что я имею в виду" (Barrett), ΚΛΉΣΙΣ (G2821) призыв, ΟΎ ΠΟΛΛΟΊ (G...
DISCOURSE: 1931 THE OBJECTS OF GOD’S CALL 1 Corinthians 1:26. Ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chose...
ARE CALLED— _Call you:_ which words I would supply from the first clause of the verse. Our translators have supplied the words _are called,_ for which there are no correspondent words in the original,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Unity Occasions Glory to God Alone (1 Corinthians 1:26-31) 26 For consider your call, brethren, not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Word of the Cross and the Wisdom of the World_ (18-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are save...
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: YE SEE - rather, from the prominence of the verb in the Greek, "see" (im...
21 To this day the great, the noble, and the wise are a small minority among the true saints of God. It is a matter of extreme thankfulness that this is so. If high birth or wisdom or any other attain...
GREETING AND THANKSGIVING. PARTISANSHIP IN THE CHURCH St. Paul, after greeting the Church and giving thanks for its spiritual gifts, rebukes the preference for various teachers which was prevalent am...
YE SEE YOUR CALLING] RV 'Behold your calling.' CALLING] Not 'worldly station,' but God's invitation given through Christ. NOT MANY WISE, etc.] The Corinthian Church was composed chiefly of people who...
PARAPHRASE. 'Look at the state of matters in your own Church. There are few among you eminent in the eyes of the world. (27-29) But it is just what is weak and lowly and of no account according to wor...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT THIS LETTER CORINTH Corinth was an important city. It was on a very narrow section of land (called an ‘isthmus’) in the southern part of Gre...
FOR YE SEE YOUR CALLING. — Better, imperative (as in 1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Corinthians 10:18; 1 Corinthians 16:10), _For see your calling._ The Apostle directs them to look at the facts regard
CHAPTER 4 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of the Corinthian Churc...
§ 5. THE OBJECTS OF THE GOSPEL CALL. § 4 has shown that the Gospel does not come ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου (1 Corinthians 1:17 b) by _the method of its operation;_ this will further be evidenced by _the status o...
Βλέπετε γὰρ τὴν κλῆσιν ὑμῶν, ἀδελφοί, “For look at _your_ calling, brothers”: God has called _you_ into the fellowship of His Son (1 Corinthians 1:9); if His Gospel had been a grand philosophy, would...
GOD'S GLORY IN MEN'S WEAKNESS 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:1 Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments on which the world relies pass before Christ. The wise, the mi...
The epistle is to the Church. Its messages are only for those who have been brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ. The character of the Church is indicated in the words, "sanctified in Christ Jesu...
Jesus Christ, Wisdom from God So, Paul said, not many of those who would be called wise, or powerful or noblemen followed Jesus. Most uprisings are successful because the upper crust leaders join and...
(26) For ye see your (t) calling, brethren, how that not many wise men (u) after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: (26) A confirmation taken from those things which came to pas...
Vocation, is here used for the called, as Romans iii. 30. circumcision for the circumcised, (Romans xi. 7.) election for the elect. (Bible de Vence) --- Consider you manner of being called; not many,...
“For see your calling, brethren, there are among you not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.” This mode of recruiting the Church confirms the conclusion drawn above from th...
(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (19) For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will brin...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
26._Behold your calling. _As the mood of the Greek verb ( βλέπετε) is doubtful, and the indicative suits the context equally as well as the imperative, I leave it to the reader’s choice which of them...
I will now turn back to take up the thread of the contents of this epistle from the beginning. Paul was an apostle by the will of God. That was his authority, however it might be with others. Moreover...
FOR YE SEE YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN,.... That is, those that were called by the grace of God among them; for as circumcision and uncircumcision stand for circumcised and uncircumcised persons, and elect...
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, _are called_ : Ver. 26. _Not many mighty_] The eagle and lion were not offered in sacri...
And hereby it appears that _the foolishness of God is wiser than men_, &c. Because he makes use of such weak and mean instruments to bring men to the knowledge of the truth. _For ye see_ Βλεπετε, _beh...
YE SEE YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN; in the character and condition of those who preach the gospel, and of those who embrace it. NOT MANY WISE-MIGHTY-NOBLE; not many who are so considered by worldly men, a...
FOR YE SEE YOUR CALLING', BRETHREN, HOW THAT NOT MANY WISE MEN AFTER THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED;...
The status of the believers:...
Paul writes here as "a called apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." As such, it is the authoritative word of God he communicates, that which requires the subjection and obedience of all the Chu...
FOR BEHOLD YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN, THAT NOT MANY WISE AFTER THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED: 'Behold your calling' -look at the type of people who have accepted the gospel cal...
26-31 God did not choose philosophers, nor orators, nor statesmen, nor men of wealth, and power, and interest in the world, to publish the gospel of grace and peace. He best judges what men and what...
To prove that this is the method of Divine Providence, to make use of seemingly infirm and weak means to produce his great effects, you need not look further than yourselves; look upon the whole body...
For behold your calling [the "principle God has followed in calling you"--Beza; a principle whereby "God," as Augustine says, "caught orators by fishermen, not fishermen by orators"], _brethren, that...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II But since neither he, nor the chief priests, nor the rulers, nor the eminent of the people, turned to Him [in faith], but, on the contrary, those who sat begging by t...
1 Corinthians 1:26 For G1063 see G991 (G5719) your G5216 calling G2821 brethren G80 that G3754 not G3756 ma
LET THEM CONSIDER WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THEM (1:26-31). ‘For look at your calling, brothers, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called....
1 Corinthians 1:26. FOR BEHOLD YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN, [1] HOW THAT NOT MANY WISE MEN AFTER THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED. [1] This _imperative_ rendering is preferable to th...
SUMMARY. ‘I beseech you, study unity. Instead of this, I hear ye are ranging yourselves into schools and parties, each contending for its favourite preacher as if your salvation hung upon him. Thus is...
BEHOLD (βλεπετε). Same form for imperative present active plural and indicative. Either makes sense as in John 5:39 εραυνατε and 1 Corinthians 14:1 πιστευετε.CALLING (κλησιν). The act of calling b...
In this chapter the apostle magnifies the cross of his Lord, as God's greatest gift to the world; and as the highest glory of God's self-revelation to men. He praises God that the Corinthian Christian...
I am going to speak about the testimony of the apostle Peter concerning his Lord, but we will first read together part of the writings of his «beloved brother Paul,» that we may see how these eminent...
1, 2. _Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,_ -Note the humility of Paul in associating with hi...
CONTENTS: Christians' position in grace. The unspiritual condition of the Corinthian saints. Danger of following human leaders and exulting in human wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Sosthenes, A...
1 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, called to be an apostle._ It was proper to mention this, else he would have had no title to address his letter to the Corinthians, and the catholic church, or saints in gener...
NOW REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE. Most Christians were from the common people. FEW OF YOU. Note he says "few," which means that some were from each class he names. Compare John 12:42. Paul's reasoning here:...
_Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God stronger than men._ THE GOSPEL AS CONTEMPLATED BY MAN AND EMPLOYED BY GOD I. Its doctrine--is foolishness, yet wiser than m...
_For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel._ PAUL’S PREACHING I. It exalted the Cross of Christ as the central element of the gospel. The apostle does not teach that truths associat...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26 Those who believed the gospel were FOOLISH by the world’s standards. God transformed them into his people by saving them. They must not boast in ancestry, acco...
RANSLATED AND EDITED BY W. F. COBB, D.D. EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT 31 George IV. Bridge 1908 SAINT PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS EDITORS PREFACE In translating the Comments of Cornelius...
_For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called._ The _for_ gives the reason of what had gone before. This verse contains ano...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 1:19.— Isaiah 29:14 (nearly as LXX.), and a free imitation of Isaiah 30:18. FOR.—Sustains the _general drift_ of...
EXPOSITION The oldest superscription was probably, "To the Corinthians, the first (Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη)." This is found in א, A, B, C, D. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1 _The_ _greeting. _An opening salutati...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 1. Paul introduces himself as the writer with Sosthenes in the first verse. Paul, called an apostle (1 Corinthians 1:1) Notice the words to be are in italics. Th...
1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 3:18;...
Calling (klhsin). Not condition of life, but your calling by God; not depending on wisdom, power, or lineage. Noble [ε υ γ ε ν ε ι ς]. Of high birth. So originally, though as Greece became democratic...
THE CHURCH OF GOD AT CORINTH 1 Corinthians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We propose taking several studies from the First Epistle to the Corinthians. There will be much to consider here which should help...
Observe here, 1. The singular favour which our apostle calls upon the Corinthians to eye and view, namely, their effectual vocation and calling out of heathenism to the profession of Christianity: YOU...