Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you, as babes, with milk — The first and plainest truths of the gospel. So should every preacher suit his doctrine to his hearers.
I fed you, as babes, with milk — The first and plainest truths of the gospel. So should every preacher suit his doctrine to his hearers.
1 CORINTHIANS 3:2 e;ti {A} The omission of e;ti by î45 B 0185 appears to be an Alexandrian improvement of style. 1 ------------------------- 1 See G. Zu...
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:2. _I HAVE FED YOU WITH MILK._] I have instructed you in the _elements_ of Christianity-in its _simplest_ and _easiest_ truths; because from the low state of your minds in relig...
I HAVE FED YOU WITH MILK - Paul here continues the metaphor, which is derived from the custom of feeding infants with the lightest food. Milk here evidently denotes the more simple and elementary doct...
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
RENEWED CONDEMNATION OF PARTY SPIRIT. Paul has now reached a point where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiving...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
And I, brothers, could not talk to you as I would to spiritual men, but I had to talk to you as to those who had not yet got beyond merely human things, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to dri...
HAVE FED YOU WITH. gave you... to drink (Greek. _potizo)_. HITHERTO, &C. = ye were not as yet able to bear it. Instead of supplying the _ellipsis_ with "to bear it", we might read "not as yet strong...
THE PARTIZANSHIP OF THE CORINTHIANS A HINDRANCE TO SPIRITUAL PROGRESS ΚἈΓΏ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ, ΟΥ̓Κ ἨΔΥΝΉΘΗΝ ΛΑΛΗ͂ΣΑΙ ὙΜΙ͂Ν. The Apostle has said much of the superiority of the wisdom which is the result of sp...
ἘΠΌΤΙΣΑ. This word is used in two senses by St Paul. Here it means to _give to drink_, in 1 Corinthians 3:6 to _water_. See ch. 1 Corinthians 12:13. Observe the instance of _zeugma_, whereby βρῶμα is...
_THE BRETHREN WERE CARNAL 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-4:_ When Paul wrote this epistle the brethren were acting like people of this world. They were acting like babies as far as their faith is Christ was concer...
ΓΆΛΑ (G1051) _асс. sing._ молоко. Эпиктет, обвиняющий тех, кто не применяет на практике свои знания и принимает моральные решения, подобно детям, любящим пирожные (Epictetus 2, 16:25-27), затем задает...
I HAVE FED YOU WITH MILK— "You being such babes, such mere beginners in the divine life, I could not go so far as I desired in the great doctrines of the Christian religion; but was obliged to content...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Commence With Spiritual Feeding (1 Corinthians 3:1-4) 3 But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ. 2I fed you w...
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. MILK - the elementary "principles of the doctrine of Christ" (). The profounder...
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...
MILK] the rudiments of the gospel; the alphabet of Christianity. We find samples of it in Paul's preaching (Acts 13:14; Acts 17:2; Acts 18:22; Acts 19:2)....
THE FAULT OF PARTY SPIRIT The immaturity of the Corinthian converts and their unfitness for anything but elementary instruction in the faith is proved by their mutual jealousies and their disagreemen...
PARAPHRASE. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any other...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 GOD’S WORKERS 3:1-9 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I could not speak to you as if the *Holy Spirit was guiding you. I had to speak to you as...
NEITHER YET NOW ARE YE ABLE, FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL. — Better, _but not even now are ye able, for ye are still carnal._ It is for this absence of growth — for their continuing up to this time in the sa...
MILK... MEAT. — The use of the word “infant” naturally suggests these two images for the higher wisdom and for the simpler truths of the gospel respectively. HITHERTO YE WERE NOT ABLE. — Better, _for...
CHAPTER 5 DIVINE WISDOM IN the preceding paragraph Paul has explained why he had proclaimed the bare facts regarding Christ and His crucifixion and trusted to the Cross itself to impress the Corinth...
CHAPTER 6 GOD'S HUSBANDRY AND BUILDING PAUL having abundantly justified his method of preaching to the Corinthians, and having shown why he contented himself with the simple presentation of the Cross...
“(Since you were babes), I gave you milk to drink, not meat:” a common figure for the simpler and more solid forms of instruction contrasted (see parls.). The teaching of 1 Thess. (see 1 Corinthians 2...
§ 12. CHRIST'S SERVANTS ANSWERABLE TO HIMSELF. The Ap. has shown his readers their own true position so high and yet so lowly (§ 11); Paul, Apollos, Cephas are but part of a universe of ministry that...
to 1 Corinthians 3:2. § 8. THE REVEALING SPIRIT. The world's rulers committed the frightful crime of “crucifying the Lord of glory,” because in fact they have only “the spirit of the world,” whereas “...
PROSPERITY COMES FROM GOD 1 Corinthians 3:1 In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one God. A man may be _in...
The reason for the schisms was that these people were carnal. "Jealousy and strife" are evidences of carnality. Proceeding, Paul declared the true value of the Christian ministry. "For we are God's fe...
Division Is Carnal The Corinthians had grown slowly in spiritual things. They still clung to carnal things like envy and strife (1 Corinthians 3:1). Like those at Ephesus, they needed not to be "child...
I have fed you with milk, and not with (b) meat: for hitherto ye were not (c) able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able. (b) Substantial meat, or strong meat. (c) To be fed by me with substanti...
The figures used by the apostle relate to the term _babes. Milk_, according to 1 Corinthians 2:2, denotes the preaching of Jesus crucified, with its simplest contents and its most immediate consequenc...
3:1-4. After demonstrating that though the gospel is not a wisdom, yet it contains one, but one which cannot be expounded except to those who by their spiritual maturity are in a condition to understa...
“And I also, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2. I have fed you with milk, not with meat: for hitherto ye were not strong enough, and...
(1) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. (2) I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bea...
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...
2._I have fed you with milk _Here it is asked, whether Paul transformed Christ to suit the diversity of his hearers. I answer, that this refers to the manner and form of his instructions, rather than...
They were not natural men; but they were carnal (not spiritual) men, so that the apostle had to feed them with milk and not with meat which was only fit for those that were of full age. That with whic...
I HAVE FED YOU WITH MILK,.... It is usual with the Jews to compare the law to milk, and they say c, that "as milk strengthens and nourishes an infant, so the law strengthens and nourishes the soul;''...
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. Ver. 2. _I have fed you with milk_] Ministers must condescend to their hearers' c...
_And I, brethren_ The apostle having, in the latter part of the preceding chapter, observed that mere natural men, still unenlightened and unrenewed, receive not the things of the Spirit, begins this...
MILK; the plain, simple truths of the gospel; such as are adapted to those who are young and inexperienced in religion. MEAT; truths suited to those who have made greater progress in divine things....
A REPROOF OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE. The marks of carnal men:...
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....
But in practical experience the Corinthians were not properly regarding, nor depending on, the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who had been given to them. Paul could not write to them as spiritual, but a...
1 CORINTHIANS 3:2. FED YOU WITH MILK, NOT WITH MEAT; FOR YE WERE NOT YET ABLE TO BEAR IT: NAY, NOT EVEN NOW ARE YE ABLE; 'milk, not with meat' -(Hebrews 5:12). 'He fed them milk because that's what t...
1-4 The most simple truths of the gospel, as to man's sinfulness and God's mercy, repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, stated in the plainest language, suit the people better t...
MILK signifies what the apostle to the Hebrews calls _the first principles of the oracles of God, _ and so is opposed to sublime spiritual doctrines, here set out under the notion of _meat; _ called _...
I fed you with milk, not with meat, for ye were not yet able to bear it [he had merely grounded them in first principles, and had not enlightened them as to those higher doctrines which lead on to per...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And on this account does Paul declare to the Corinthians, "I have fed you with milk, not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."[620] Clement of Alexa...
1 Corinthians 3:2 fed G4222 (G5656) you G5209 milk G1051 and G2532 not G3756 food G1033 for G1063 now...
UNFORTUNATELY THEIR PRESENT BEHAVIOUR IS A SIGN OF THEIR IMMATURITY FOR THE OBJECTS OF THEIR DEVOTION ARE BUT INSTRUMENTS OF GOD. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED IN THE WRONG PLACE (3:1-7) ‘And I, brothers, coul...
1 Corinthians 3:2. I fed you WITH MILK the elementary truths of the Gospel. NOT WITH MEAT the profounder aspects of Christian truth. FOR YE WERE NOT YET ABLE, ETC. See Hebrews 5:12-14....
I FED YOU WITH MILK, NOT WITH MEAT (γαλα υμας εποτισα, ου βρωμα). Note two accusatives with the verb, εποτισα, first aorist active indicative of ποτιζω, as with other causative verbs, that of the pe...
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....
1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ Their spiritual part had not grown strong, their old carnal nature still had the pr...
CONTENTS: Hindrance of a carnal state to spiritual growth. Christian service and its reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Apollos, Cephas. CONCLUSION: Our salvation rests solely upon t...
1 Corinthians 3:1. _Babes in Christ,_ like children at the breast, requiring to be _fed with milk, and not with meat._ Our great tutor here addresses the Corinthians in a superior style of eloquence,...
I HAD TO FEED YOU MILK. "I had to give you the elementary teachings of Christ, not the more difficult doctrines we teach to the spiritually mature." AND EVEN NOW. They still are spiritually immature....
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 FLESH can mean different things in Scripture. In Paul’s letters it often refers to unredeemed human nature, along with its desires and typical behaviors....
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:2 NOT READY. Paul thinks it is dangerous to give advanced teaching to spiritually immature Christians. ⇐
CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He endeavours to put an end to the divisions among the Corinthians, by reminding them of their mutual subjection and union in Christ and God. I. He points out t...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 3:1. AND I.—_Q.d_. “As any other ‘spiritual’ teacher would have to do.” So Ellicott; but perhaps laying undue stress upon the “_and_,” which, if more than merely a half-...
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 cr...
Let's turn now to I Corinthians, chapter 3. Beginning with the fourteenth verse of chapter 2, Paul here separates men into three classifications. Starting in chapter 2 with the natural man, the unrege...
1 Peter 2:2; Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 5:12; Hebrews 5:12; John 16:12...
I fed [ε π ο τ ι σ α]. Lit., I gave you to drink. An instance of the rhetorical figure zeugma, by which one verb is attached to two nouns, of which it only suits the meaning of one, but suggests a ver...
THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN 1 Corinthians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the other, the r...
With milk, that is, with easy and common truths; not with the mysterious parts of gospel knowledge; with the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, and not with the higher doctrines of Christiani...