Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
Thus also the apostle, in the Epistle to the Corinthians, being moved, says, "What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, in the spirit of meekness? "[136]
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:21. _SHALL I COME UNTO YOU WITH A ROD, OR IN LOVE_] Here he alludes to the case of the _teacher_ and _father_, mentioned in 1 Corinthians 4:15. Shall I come to you with the _aut...
WHAT WILL YE - It depends on yourselves how I shall come. If you lay aside your contentions and strifes; if you administer discipline as you should; if you give yourselves heartily and entirely to the...
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...
UNTO. Greek. _pr_. _s_, as in verses: 1 Corinthians 4:18. This verse is an example of Figure of speech _Anocoenosis_. App-6. WITH. in. Greek. _en,_ as in 1 Corinthians 4:2. Compare Luke
Mission of Timothy, to be followed, if ineffectual, by strong measures on the part of St Paul himself 17. _For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus_ Literally, I SENT, i.e. before this epistle wa...
_with a rod_ That is either (1) with some commentators, e.g. Chrysostom, the resolution to deliver the rebellious over to Satan (see next chapter). If this be the case, the word -power" in the last ve...
ἘΝ ῬΆΒΔΩΙ. That is either (1) with some commentators, e. g. Chrysostom, the resolution to deliver the rebellious over to Satan (see next chapter). If this be the case, the word ‘power’ in the last ver...
MISSION OF TIMOTHY, TO BE FOLLOWED, IF INEFFECTUAL, BY STRONG MEASURES ON THE PART OF ST PAUL HIMSELF....
_A COMMAND FOR TIMOTHY TO COME 1 CORINTHIANS 4:17-21:_ Paul sent Timothy unto them that they might learn how to imitate him. Their imitation of Paul simply meant that they followed the way of Christ....
ΈΝ (G1722) с; instr. использование предлога, подобное тому, которое существовало в_евр._ (BD, 117f; Lietzmann; Hering), ΡΆΒΔΟΣ (G4464) жезл, палка, дубина. Это символ суровости, его следует понимать...
DISCOURSE: 1955 AN IMPORTANT ALTERNATIVE 1 Corinthians 4:21. _What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod. or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?_ AT Corinth, religion was at a very low ebb. G...
SHALL I COME UNTO YOU WITH A ROD?— "Using my apostolic power for your chastisement?"ThattheApostleshadoftenamiraculouspower of inflicting death and other temporal judgments, in case of aggravated offe...
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...
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? WITH A ROD, OR IN LOVE. The Greek "in" is in both clauses: Is it IN the character of one using the rod tha...
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. '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...
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...
WHAT WILL YE? — I give you a choice. I am coming to you as a father in any case. But shall I come as a father comes with a rod (Isaiah 11:4), and going to inflict punishment with it (such is the force...
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...
§ 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...
τί θέλετε; “What is your will?” what would you have? τί a sharper πότερον; the latter only once (John 7:17) in N.T. “ _With a rod_ am I to come to you? or in love and a spirit of meekness?” ἐνῥ άβδῳ ...
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...
(12) What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the (l) spirit of meekness? (12) A passing over to another part of this epistle, in which he reprehends most sharply a very o...
“What will ye? That I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and with a spirit of meekness?” It is as if Paul said to them: “Peace or war: choose!” The emotion caused by this challenge, so boldly thro...
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...
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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! do observe with what lowliness of heart, Paul desired the Church to regard him, and his companions in the ministry : mere servants and stewards, not as lords over God's heritage. P...
(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...
21._What will ye _? The person who divided the Epistles into chapters ought to have made this the beginning of the _fifth _chapter. For having hitherto reproved the foolish pride of the Corinthians, t...
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...
WHAT WILL YE?.... Or "how will ye, that I should come unto you?" as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read it: since the apostle had determined upon his coming to them: and had made mention of it, he p...
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and _in_ the spirit of meekness? Ver. 21. _With a rod, or in love?_] Both; but (as children) we think not so. _Sed sinite virgam corripient...
_Now some are puffed up_ Are grown insolent; _as though I would not come_ To censure them for their misconduct, and to reform abuses; fancying that, because I have sent Timothy, I am not coming myself...
WHAT WILL YE? would they, by disregarding his instruction, make it needful to visit them with discipline; or would they, by complying with those instructions, open the way for him to commend them and...
What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? The apostle had written the last passage in holy indignation; like a stream, his speech had poured forth port...
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...
WHAT WILL YE? SHALL. COME UNTO YOU WITH. ROD, OR IN LOVE AND. SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS? 'What will ye?' -'What do you desire?' (NASV) 'Which do you choose or prefer?' (McGarvey p. 71) 'When Paul arrives...
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...
Which will ye rather choose? That I should come unto you as a father cometh to his child under some guilt for which he must punish and correct him, or as a father cometh to his child that hath done no...
What will ye? [which do you choose or prefer?] _shall I come unto you with a rod_ [to punish you], _or in love and a spirit of gentleness?_ [Because ye will have repented of your factious spirit.]...
1 Corinthians 4:21 What G5101 want G2309 (G5719) come G2064 (G5632) to G4314 you G5209 with G1722 rod...
‘What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and in a spirit of meekness?' So he closes this section by leaving them a choice. Do they prefer severity, or love and gentleness. As a co...
LET THEM THEN REMEMBER THAT HE FATHERED THEM AND THAT THROUGH HIM GOD'S POWER WAS AND IS REVEALED (4:14-21)...
1 Corinthians 4:21. WHAT WILL YE? SHALL I COME UNTO YOU WITH A ROD, OR IN LOVE AND A SPIRIT OF MEEKNESS? in severity of discipline, or the reverse?...
WITH A ROD (εν ραβδω). The so-called instrumental use of εν like the Hebrew (1 Samuel 17:43). The shepherd leaned on his rod, staff, walking stick. The paedagogue had his rod also.SHALL I COME? ...
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...
WHICH DO YOU PREFER? He is speaking to the false teacher and the group which follows him. The choice is theirs!!!...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:21 ROD. A thin stick used for discipline. Paul speaks metaphorically of the church discipline he describes in 1 Corinth
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...
_What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod?_ Such as becomes the father I spoke of in ver. 15. The rod is a symbol of severity of rebuke and power of punishing. So Chrysostom, Theophylact, Anselm...
_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 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 10:2;...
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...
With a rod — That is, with severity....
As if the apostle had said, "Come. will among you, to regulate disorders, and to rectify abuses: now choose how. shall come; whether in the milder way of kindness, love, and meekness towards you, or e...