έφύτευσα aor. ind. act. от φυτεύω (G5452) сажать. Указывает на основание Коринфской церкви (Schrage; см. Fujita, "The Metaphor of Plant in Jewish Literature of the Intertestamental Period" JJS 7 [1976]: 30-45).
έπότισεν aor. ind. act. от ποτίζω (G4222) поить, поливать,
ηϋξανεν impf. ind. act. от αύξάνω (G837) растить. Impf. указывает на длительные результаты благословения Божьего, которое коснулось работы Павла и Аполлоса (RWP).
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:6. _I HAVE PLANTED_] I first sowed the seed of the Gospel at Corinth, and in the region of Achaia. _APOLLOS WATERED_] Apollos came after me, and, by his preachings and exhortat...
I HAVE PLANTED - The apostle here compares the establishment of the church at Corinth to the planting of a vine, a tree, or of grain. The figure is taken from agriculture, and the meaning is obvious....
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...
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
HAVE PLANTED. planted. See Acts 18:1. WATERED. Greek. _potizo_, as in 1 Corinthians 3:2. See Acts 18:27 Acts 19:1. GOD. Ap
Christian Ministers only labourers of more or less efficiency, the substantial work being God's 6. _I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase_ The Apostle would lead his converts to r...
ἘΓῺ ἘΦΎΤΕΥΣΑ, ἈΠΟΛΛῺΣ ἘΠΌΤΙΣΕΝ, ἈΛΛᾺ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΗΥ̓́ΞΑΝΕΝ. I PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED, BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE. The Apostle would lead his converts from the thought of those who had ministered the Gospe...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_THE PREACHERS ARE SERVANTS 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-10:_ Apollos and Paul were merely servants or ministers that had helped these brethren have faith. Paul had no desire for preachers to receive special hon...
DISCOURSE: 1944 UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED 1 Corinthians 3:5. _Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Builders: All Christians are workers in God's fieldbuilders on God's building. What are apostles? Workers, like every other Christian. They may have gifts from Go...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17) 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plant...
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. I ... PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED (; ). Apollos was born in the learned city Alexandria: he originally "knew only the baptism of John;" but su...
5 Apollos was a Jew of Alexandria, a scholarly man, and able in the Scriptures. He came to Ephesus, full of zeal, but versed only in the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak boldly in...
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...
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...
I HAVE PLANTED] St. Paul founded the Church at Corinth (Acts 18:1). APOLLOS WATERED] Acts 18:27....
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...
I HAVE PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED. — By an image borrowed from the processes of agriculture the Apostle explains the relation in which his teaching stood to that of Apollos — and how all the results wer...
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...
§ 9. GOD'S RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH. One idea runs through this chapter and into the next, that of _God's_ Church, _God's_ temple at Corinth, in whose construction so many various builders are engaged (1...
The grammatical obj [500] of this sentence has been given by the foregoing context, _viz._, the Cor [501] Church of believers (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 4:15). φυτεύω Paul uses besides only in 1 Corinthians...
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...
Increase Comes From God Paul wanted to know what it was about Apollos and himself that could cause division. They were both "ministers," which is the same word translated "deacons" in Acts 6:2 and me...
(3) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. (3) He beautifies the former sentence, with two similarities: first comparing the company of the faithful to a field which God makes fru...
In order to show what, in a religious organization like that which the gospel creates, is the place of preachers, the apostle takes two examples: Apollos and himself; and he develops what he means to...
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase; 7. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.” The asyndeton between 1 Corinthian...
(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; a...
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...
_CHRISTIAN UNITY_ ‘I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.’ 1 Corinthians 3:6 St. Paul pleaded with the Corinthians for unity of spirit. Had he lived now, I do not think he woul...
6._I have planted, Apollos watered _He unfolds more clearly the nature of that ministry by a similitude, in which the nature of the word and the use of preaching are most appropriately depicted. That...
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 PLANTED,.... That is, ministerially; otherwise the planting of souls in Christ, and the implanting of grace in them, are things purely divine, and peculiar to God, and the power of his grace; b...
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Ver. 6. _But God gave the increase_] The harp yields no sound till it be touched by the hand of the musician. The heart is never made good...
_For while one saith, I am of Paul_ I am one of Paul's disciples, admiring his sublime sentiments, and being greatly edified by his instructive discourses: _and another, I am of Apollos_ I give the pr...
I HAVE PLANTED; Paul first preached the gospel to the Corinthians and gathered the church. APOLLOS WATERED; he came after Paul and further instructed the people. GOD GAVE THE INCREASE; all the succe...
All ministers of Christ of equal rank:...
I HAVE PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED; BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE....
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 3:6. PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED; BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE. 'Paul got the work of redemption going among the Corinthians and Apollos followed up on it and "watered it" (Acts 18:27). But i...
5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed b...
God honoured me first to preach the gospel amongst you, ACTS 18:1 &c., and blessed my preaching to convert you unto Christ; then I left you: Apollos stayed behind, and he WATERED what I had PLANTED, d...
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase....
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews But the new law's wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of "glaives" and "lances," and to remodel the pristine execution...
1 Corinthians 3:6 I G1473 planted G5452 (G5656) Apollos G625 watered G4222 (G5656) but G235 God G2316 increas
‘What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministers through whom you believed, and each one as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.' Elsewhere Paul will tell Christi...
1 Corinthians 3:6. I PLANTED: YES; the first ground at Corinth was indeed broken by me, and I am your spiritual father. APOLLOS WATERED following up what I began. But though in husbandry planting go...
I PLANTED (εγω εφυτευσα). First aorist active indicative of old verb φυτευω. This Paul did as Luke tells us in Acts 18:1-18.APOLLOS WATERED (Απολλως εποτισεν). Apollos irrigated the church there a...
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...
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....
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 PLANTED THE SEED. "I planted you in God's field, Apollos (and others) watered you, by teaching you, but it was God who made you grow." [This shows there are two basic kinds of preachers: _planting_...
_I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase._ I was the first to sow the seeds of the faith at Corinth, and then Apollos coming after me helped it forward (Act 18:26). But it was God w...
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 3:5.—Better reading “_what?_” not “_who?_” Also “_through_.” Not, “As the Lord gave _to every man of you_ the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted _to...
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 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 1 Corinthians 3:10;...
Planted - watered - gave the increase [ε φ υ τ ε υ σ α - ε π ο τ ι σ ε ν - η υ ξ α ν ε ν]. The first two verbs are in the aorist tense, marking definite acts; the third is in the imperfect, marking th...
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...
I PLANTED; That is,. first preached the gospel among you, and first instructed you in the principles of Christ.. converted you to Christ: after me came Apollos, and watered the seed which. had sown: b...