Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 4:14
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you — It is with admirable prudence and sweetness the apostle adds this, to prevent any unkind construction of his words.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you — It is with admirable prudence and sweetness the apostle adds this, to prevent any unkind construction of his words.
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:14. _I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU_] It is not by way of _finding fault_ with you for not providing me with the necessaries of life that I write thus; but I do it to war...
TO SHAME YOU - It is not my design to put you to shame by showing you how little you suffer in comparison with us. This is not our design, though it may have this effect. I have no wish to make you as...
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...
FATHERLY ADMONITION, ENTREATY, AND WARNING. The tone of mingled severity, irony, and pathos disappears; yet the affection is combined with sternness, and he warns them not to presume on his mildness....
THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
It is not to shame you that I write these things, but to warn you as my beloved children. You may have thousands of tutors in Christ, but you have not many fathers; for, in Christ Jesus, through the g...
I WRITE, &C. Literally Not as putting you to shame do. write these thing. SHAME. Greek. _entrepo._ Occurs elsewhere, Matthew 21:37; Mark 12:6; Luke 18:2;...
_I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you_ The object of the foregoing passage might be mistaken, and therefore the Apostle refers to the mutual relation between himsel...
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...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΝΤΡΈΠΩΝ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΓΡΆΦΩ ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ. The object of the foregoing passage might be mistaken, and therefore the Apostle refers to the mutual relation between himself and the Corinthian Church. His object i...
_A CHARGE REGARDING THEIR SPIRITUAL FATHER 1 CORINTHIANS 4:14-16:_ Paul wrote these things to the Christians at Corinth to remind them that he was their father in the faith. He had led them to the Lor...
ΈΝΤΡΈΠΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΝΤΡΈΠΩ (G1788) позорить, стыдить. _Praes. part._ выражает цель (MT, 157). _Praes._ может также рассматриваться как конативный: "я не пытаюсь пристыдить вас" (Barrett),...
I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU— See 2 Corinthians 11:20. St. Paul here (from 1 Corinthians 4:8.), by giving an account of his own conduct, gently rebukes them for following men of a different c...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Exasperating (1 Corinthians 4:14-21) 14 I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15For though you have countless guides in Chr...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU - for not relieving my needs (). WARN - rather, 'admonish' as a father uses 'admoni...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'Iwrite not to shame you, but to admonish you; and I have the right to do so, for I am your spiritual father. (16, 17) Follow my example, therefore; and attend to the instructions of Timot...
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....
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...
I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU. — Better, _I write these things not as one making you ashamed, but I am warning you as beloved children._ The mingled irony and reproach of the preceding verses...
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...
Οὐκ ἐντρέπων κ. τ. λ.: “Not (by way of) shaming you do I write this, but admonishing (you) as my children beloved”. It is in _chiding_ that the Ap. addresses both the Cor [759] and Gal. as his “childr...
§ 14. PAUL'S FATHERLY DISCIPLINE. All has now been said that can be concerning the Divisions at Cor [756] the causes underlying them, and the spirit they manifest and foster in the Church. In their se...
TEACHING CONVERTS CHRIST'S WAYS 1 Corinthians 4:14 The relationship between the Apostle and his converts was very tender. They were his children. They might have instructors and tutors, but they coul...
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?...
Paul Loved the Church in Corinth Like a Father Paul did not try to make the brethren feel bad because they added to his problems. Rather, he wanted to warn them so they would change. He wrote to them...
(10) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you]. (10) Moderating the sharpness of his mockery, he puts them in mind to remember of whom they were begotten in Christ, a...
I write not. St. Paul here insinuates to the Corinthians, that they ought to blush with shame for neglecting the apostles, who had suffered so many hardships for them, to follow after teachers void of...
are the conclusion of all the apostle has written from 1 Corinthians 1:12. He first makes an explanation about the severe manner in which he has just spoken to them. It is not resentment or enmity whi...
“I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you.” ᾿Εντρέπειν, _to turn one back upon himself_, and hence: to cause shame. The apostle no doubt spoke to them in a humiliat...
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...
(14) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. (15) For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have bego...
14._I write not these things to shame you _As the foregoing instances of irony were very pointed, so that they might exasperate the minds of the Corinthians, he now obviates that dissatisfaction by de...
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...
I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU,.... Though they had a great deal of reason to be ashamed of the vain opinion they had of themselves, and that they suffered the faithful ministers of Christ to w...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn _you_. Ver. 14. _To shame you_] An innocent person sometimes, upon the fulness of an aspersion, may conceive shame, as David did,...
_I write not these things to shame you_ Publicly to disgrace you, and stain your credit with other churches; _but as my beloved sons I warn you_ Show you in a mild and tender way what is wrong in your...
TO SHAME YOU; the apostle's severity had not for its object to overbear the Corinthians and put them to shame, but to correct their errors, as children dear to him....
I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU, BUT AS MY BELOVED SONS I WARN YOU....
The apostle's fatherly discipline:...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 4:14. WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU, BUT TO ADMONISH YOU AS MY BELOVED CHILDREN. 'to shame you' -'Some might misinterpret Paul's irony and sarcasm to mean that Paul had no feelin...
14-21 In reproving for sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn, are likely to reform. Though the apostle spoke with authority as a pare...
I tell you not of this to make you blush, as having had any hand in these indignities which are put upon us, nor yet TO SHAME YOU (though possibly you have reason to be ashamed, either for your neglec...
I write not these things to shame you [to make you feel how contemptible you are in adding to my many sorrows and burdens], _but to admonish you as my beloved children_. [As to the foolishness of your...
1 Corinthians 4:14 not G3756 write G1125 (G5719) things G5023 shame G1788 (G5723) you G5209 but G235 as...
LET THEM THEN REMEMBER THAT HE FATHERED THEM AND THAT THROUGH HIM GOD'S POWER WAS AND IS REVEALED (4:14-21)...
‘I write these things not to shame you but to admonish you, as my beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I bro...
1 Corinthians 4:14. I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU as if I thought your Christianity unreal, but that ye may be led to inquire whether it is not sitting too lightly upon you, and as to your pre...
TO SHAME YOU (εντρεπων). Literally, shaming you (present active participle of εντρεπω), old verb to turn one on himself either middle or with reflexive pronoun and active, but the reflexive εαυτοις...
SONS (Greek, "teknon", a "child", "born one")....
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...
I WRITE THIS TO YOU. Paul says he has not made this contrast between himself and the false teacher just to make them ashamed. Rather, he writes as a father to his own dear children, to instruct them i...
_I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you._ PAUL AN EXAMPLE TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS He proceeds-- I. With love. 1. Not as a schoolmaster, but as a father. 2. Not t...
_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...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 4:14.—Irony dropped. Even in 1 Corinthians 4:6 it was “Brothers!” Now, “Beloved children!” Yet surely he did desire to make them ashamed of their bearing towards and est...
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 4:15; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:14;...
To shame [ε ν τ ρ ε π ω ν]. Lit., as shaming. See on Matthew 21:37. The verb means to turn about, hence to turn one upon himself; put him to shame. Compare 2 Thessalonians 3:14; Titus 2:8. Also, in th...
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...
Observe here, 1. The holy ingenuity of the apostle, discovered in the sharp reproofs given to the Corinthians: it was to warn them of their duty, not to reproach them for their crimes: I WRITE NOT THE...