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Verse 1 Corinthians 4:11. _WE BOTH HUNGER AND THIRST_, c.] Who would
then have been an apostle of Christ, even with all its spiritual
honours and glories, who had not a soul filled with love both to...
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EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR - Paul here drops the irony, and begins a
serious recapitulation of his actual sufferings and trials. The phrase
used here “unto this present hour” denotes that these thing...
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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...
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PAUL WILL ACCEPT NO JUDGMENT BUT CHRIST'S. THE FORTUNATE LOT OF THE
CORINTHIANS CONTRASTED WITH THE MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE APOSTLES.
This section is concerned with the attitude of the Corinthians...
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Brothers, I have transferred these things by way of illustration to
myself and to Apollos, so that through us you may learn to observe the
principle of not going beyond that which is written, so that...
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THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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EVEN UNTO. Up to, or until. Greek. _achri._
THIS. the.
PRESENT. Greek. _arti_. now.
ARE NAKED. are scantily clothed. Greek. _gumneteuo._ Only here.
ARE BUFFETED. Greek. _kolaphizo._ Here, Matthew 2...
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_Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst_ The Apostle
would point out to his converts the true glory of the Christian
minister. Labour and suffering for Christ's sake are the marks of t...
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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...
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ΓΥΜΝΙΤΕΎΟΜΕΝ אBCDEFG. But as in the Fathers the rec.
γυμνητεύομεν is found, Meyer rejects the reading in the
text as ‘an ancient clerical error.’ A omits the word altogether.
11. ἌΧΡΙ ΤΗ͂Σ ἌΡΤΙ ὭΡΑΣ....
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CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
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_A CAUTION AGAINST SINFUL PRIDE 1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-13:_ The faithless
stewards were acting like they were the source of the good things they
possessed. These faithless stewards were filled with destruc...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Pompousness (1 Corinthians 4:6-13)
6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit,
brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written,...
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
(2 C 11 23 27 ) (2 Corinthians 11:23.)
NAKED - i:e., insufficiently clad...
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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...
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PARAPHRASE. 'In speaking of the folly of these divisions I have used
only the names of Apollos and myself; but the same principles apply to
your attitude to all your teachers. (7) Why do some of you p...
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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....
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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...
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WE BOTH HUNGER. — From the strong irony of the last verse, the
Apostle here passes, in the pathethic and sad description which
occupies 1 Corinthians 4:11, to show how intensely true that last word
“d...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 4:11-12 _a_. ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας …
ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν describes the ἄτιμοι,
reduced to this position by the world's contempt and with no means of
winning its respect a life at the farthes...
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§ 13. DISCIPLES ABOVE THEIR MASTER. What the Ap. has written, from 1
Corinthians 3:3 onwards, turns on the relations between himself and
Apollos; but it has a wide application to the state of feeling...
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STEWARDS RESPONSIBLE TO THEIR LORD
1 Corinthians 4:1
At the most the ministers or teachers of God's Gospel are but stewards
of the hidden things of God, according to Matthew 13:51. They ought
not to...
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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?...
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Paul's View of the Apostles' Position
In contrast to the Corinthians' lofty thoughts of themselves, Paul
gives his thoughts on the apostles' state. They suffered persecution
and would continue to suff...
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“Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, are naked,
buffeted, without certain dwelling - place; 12. labour, working with
our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suf...
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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...
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(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to
think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be...
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11._For to this hour. _The Apostle here describes his condition, as if
in a picture, that the Corinthians may learn, from his example, to lay
aside that loftiness of spirit, and embrace, as he did, th...
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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...
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EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR,.... What is about to be related was not
what befell the apostles now and then, and a great while ago; but what
for a considerable time, and unto the present time, was more...
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked,
and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
Ver. 11. _Even to this present_] Thus he complaineth, not out of
impatience...
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_We are fools_ In the account of the world, _for Christ's sake_
Because we expose ourselves to so many dangers and sufferings for his
cause: or because we preach the plain truths of the gospel, and af...
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EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR WE BOTH HUNGER, AND THIRST, AND ARE NAKED,
AND ARE BUFFETED, AND HAVE NO CERTAIN DWELLING-PLACE;...
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The status of the heralds of salvation:...
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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...
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EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR WE BOTH HUNGER, AND THIRST, AND ARE NAKED,
AND ARE BUFFETED, AND HAVE NO CERTAIN DWELLING-PLACE;
'this present hour' -'For them life is becoming no easier as time goes
on...
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7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that
is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched
from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very abs...
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Our state in the world is low and mean; though you be full, we are
hungry and thirsty; though you be richly clothed, yet we ARE next to
NAKED, clothed with rags; though you be hugged and embraced by t...
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked,
and are buffeted [smitten with the clenched fist], _and have no
certain dwelling-place_ [Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23];...
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1 Corinthians 4:11 G891 present G737 hour G5610 we G3983 both G2532
hunger G3983 (G5719) and G2532 thirst
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‘Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked
and are knocked about, and have no certain dwelling place. And we
toil, working with our hands. Being reviled, we bless, being
perse...
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THOSE WHO ARE TRUE TO THE WORD OF THE CROSS ENDURE SUFFERING FOR
CHRIST. THE CORINTHIANS NEED TO RE-EXAMINE THEIR FOUNDATIONS (4:6-13).
Paul now stresses that all that he has said has been with them...
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1 Corinthians 4:11. EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR WE BOTH HUNGER, AND
THIRST, AND ARE NAKED, AND ARE BUFFETED, AND HAVE NO CERTAIN
DWELLING-PLACE having often scarce the necessaries of life....
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EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR
(αχρ της αρτ ωρας). Αρτ (just now, this very minute)
accents the continuity of the contrast as applied to Paul. Ten verbs
and four participles from 1 Corinthians 4:11-13...
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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...
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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...
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TO THIS VERY HOUR. Compare what Paul says in these verses with Hebrews
11:32-40. He tells more about his suffering in 2 Corinthians 6:3-10....
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_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...
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_Now ye are full … rich … as kings._
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTERFEIT AND THE REAL CHRISTIAN
I. The counterfeit--
1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher.
2. Is s...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:10 WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST’S
SAKE. Measured by the Corinthians’ “royal” standards (v. 1
Corinthians 4:8),
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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...
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_Even unto this present hour we... have no certain dwelling-place._
This remarkable description of the Apostle's life is very like that
contained in the Second Epistle (xi. 23), which those that are c...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 4:6.—From 1 Corinthians 3:5 he has discussed what
applied to all the factions and their leaders, and even more to the
others than to the so-called Pauline and Apollonian...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 9:4; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 11:26; 2
Corinthians 11:27;...
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We have no certain dwelling - place [α σ τ α τ ο υ μ ε ν].
From astatov unstable, strolling about. Only here in the New
Testament. Compare Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23; Hebrews 11:37. Wyc.,
we ben unst...
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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...
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And are naked — Who can imagine a more glorious triumph of the
truth, than that which is gained in these circumstances when St. Paul,
with an impediment in his speech, and a person rather contemptible...
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Observe here, 1. The several kinds of sufferings which the holy
apostles were exposed to, and exercised with; namely, hunger, and
want, poverty, and reproach, persecution, and death. They suffered in...