έρχομένου praes. med. (dep.) part. от έρχομαι (G2064) приходить. Gen. abs. выражает отр. условие: "если бы я не приходил". Говорит об отр. отношении некоторых коринфян (Kistemaker).
έφυσιώθησάν aor. ind. pass. от φυσιόω (G5448) гордиться (см. 1 Corinthians 4:6). Inch, aor., "некоторые возгордились" (Kistemaker).
τίνες пот. pl. (G5100) τις кто-нибудь, "некоторые".
Verse 18. _SOME ARE PUFFED UP_] Some of your teachers act with great haughtiness, imagining themselves to be safe, because they suppose that I shall not revisit Corinth....
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP - They are puffed up with a vain confidence; they say that I would not dare to come; that I would be afraid to appear among them, to administer discipline, to rebuke them, or to...
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...
SOME. App-124. WOULD NOT COME. were not coming. TO. unto. App-104....
_Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you_ See note below, ch. 1 Corinthians 5:2. As the whole of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians shews (see for instance, ch. 1 Corinthians 10:2...
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...
MISSION OF TIMOTHY, TO BE FOLLOWED, IF INEFFECTUAL, BY STRONG MEASURES ON THE PART OF ST PAUL HIMSELF....
ἘΦΥΣΙΏΘΗΣΆΝ ΤΙΝΕΣ. See note below, ch. 1 Corinthians 5:2. As the whole of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians shews (see for instance, ch. 1 Corinthians 10:2), there were those at Corinth who deprec...
_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....
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...
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. NOW - Greek, 'But' [ de (G1161)]. I have sent Timothy; BUT not because I do not intend to come myself, as some are puffed up to fancy as i...
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...
PUFFED UP] Some of the Corinthian converts conceived themselves so 'wise' as to be able to despise St. Paul's authority. Their opposition developed later on, and drew from St. Paul the 'severe' letter...
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...
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP. — Some of those in Corinth who were puffed up were in the habit of saying that the Apostle would not come and visit the Corinthian Church. The moment they heard the announcemen...
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...
ὡς μὴ ἐρχομένου δὲ μου πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐφυσιώθησάν τινες : “Some however have been puffed up, under the idea that I am not coming to (visit) you”. The contrastive δὲ points to a group of inflated persons (_...
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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?...
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...
(11) Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. (11) Last of all he descends also to apostolic threatenings, but yet chiding them as a father, lest by their disorder he was forced to...
Some of those new doctors and preachers are so puffed up, that they pretend I dare not come to you any more, nor defend myself: he may also mean the man that lived in incest, his companions and his fl...
“But some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.” The δέ is adversative: “ _But_ do not proceed to conclude therefrom that...” The present participle ὡς μὴ ἐρχομένου, “as if I were not _com...
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...
(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...
18._As though I would not come to you _This is the custom of the false apostles — to take advantage of the absence of the good, that they may triumph and vaunt without any hindrance. Paul, accordingly...
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...
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP,.... Some with their gifts, learning, and eloquence, and with the high station they were in, in the church; believing they should continue therein undisturbed, thinking them sel...
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. Ver. 18. _Now some are puffed up_] Swelling in the body is an ill symptom. So it is in the soul. A swelling wall will shortly fall....
_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...
SOME ARE PUFFED UP; elated with their imaginary importance and power, as if Paul would not dare to come to them....
The apostle's fatherly discipline:...
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP, AS THOUGH I WOULD NOT COME TO YOU....
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...
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP, AS THOUGH. WERE NOT COMING TO YOU. 'puffed up' -'thinking that. am afraid to come and deal with you.' (Tay) 'Because Timothy arrives with. letter there are those who are prid...
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 hear that some of your teachers, and some of your members, are so conceited of themselves, that they would persuade you that I durst not see their faces, or come to discourse with them face to face,...
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you....
1 Corinthians 4:18 Now G1161 some G5100 up G5448 (G5681) though G5613 I G3450 were G2064 not G3361 comin
‘Now some are puffed up as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. For the Kingly Rule...
LET THEM THEN REMEMBER THAT HE FATHERED THEM AND THAT THROUGH HIM GOD'S POWER WAS AND IS REVEALED (4:14-21)...
1 Corinthians 4:18. NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP AS THOUGH I WERE NOT COMING TO YOU (afraid to shew myself)....
SOME ARE PUFFED UP (εφυσιωθησαν). First aorist (effective) passive indicative of φυσιοω which see on verse 1 Corinthians 4:6.AS THOUGH I WERE NOT COMING TO YOU (ως μη ερχομενου μου προς υμας). Ge...
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...
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1 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 5:2...
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Now some are puffed up — St. Paul saw, by a divine light, the thoughts which would arise in their hearts. As if I would not come — Because I send Timothy....
Observe here, 1. The advantages which the height and haughtiness of some envious teachers took, upon St. Paul's absence from Corinth; they entertained low and contemptuous thoughts of him, and vaunted...