Verse 1 Corinthians 9:6. _OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS_] Have we alone of all the apostles no right to be supported by our converts? It appears from this, 1. That the apostles did not generally support the...
OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS - Paul and Barnabas had worked together as tent-makers at Corinth; Acts 18:3. From this fact it had been inferred that they “knew” that they had no claim to a support. POWER TO...
6. PAUL'S GRACIOUS EXAMPLE. CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The Apostle's rights. (1 Corinthians 9:1)._ 2. He waives his rights for the Gospel's sake. (1 Corinthians 9:15). 3. The race-course and the crown. ...
1 CORINTHIANS 9. This chapter is not a digression, and is not primarily concerned with a vindication of Paul's apostolic status and rights. He enforces his plea that the enlightened should not ride ro...
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? Even if I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; you are the seal of my apostleship in...
THE UNCLAIMED PRIVILEGES (1 Corinthians 9:1-14)...
BARNABAS. It would appear then that Barnabas adopted the same method as Paul, of working for his living. TO FORBEAR WORKING. of not (Greek. _me)_ working....
_Or I only and Barnabas_ St Paul and St Barnabas (1) resigned their claim to support on the part of the Church, (2) they were not of the number of the twelve, (3) they were left by the Apostles to und...
6. [τοῦ] after ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ omit אABDEFG. Rec. inserts with E. 6. Ἢ ΜΌΝΟΣ ἘΓῺ ΚΑῚ ΒΑΡΝΆΒΑΣ. St Paul and St Barnabas (1) resigned their claim to support on the part of the Church, (2) were not of the numbe...
1 Corinthians 9:1-14. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY This chapter is devoted to a defence of the Apostolic authority of St Paul, but there is an under-current of thought connecting it wi...
_PAUL HAD CERTAIN RIGHTS 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1-6:_ The brethren at Corinth knew and understood that Paul was an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and that he had been taught by the Lord Himself. The Corint...
OR I ONLY, AND BARNABAS— From this expression one would think that the Judaizing Christians, who were the main cause of St. Paul's uneasiness in this respect, had a peculiar spleen against these two A...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Recitation of Rights (1 Corinthians 9:1-14) 9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? 2If to others I...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 9:1-12 a. Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at leas...
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? BARNABAS - long the associate of Paul. He, too, forbore to claim the minister's right of maintenance. Paul supported himself by tent-m...
1 The Corinthians questioned the apostleship of Paul. The phrase, "the twelve apostles" has been used to throw doubt on his commission, for if there were but twelve apostles, Paul could not have been...
BARNABAS] was like St. Paul, an Apostle (Acts 14:14), and like him, but unlike the rest, he maintained himself by his own labour. They may have jointly adopted this course on their missionary journeys...
_(b) Food offered to Idols (ii) St. Paul's own Example_ St. Paul has appealed to the 'enlightened' converts at Corinth to give up for the sake of others a practice which they might otherwise have had...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 THE RIGHTS OF AN *APOSTLE 9:1-27 PAUL IS A REAL *APOSTLE 9:1-2 V1 You know that I am free. You know that I am an *apostle. I have seen...
OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS. — “Or” here does not introduce a question which implies a new right in addition to the rights already claimed, but it completes the argument. Granting the existence of the righ...
CHAPTER 13 MAINTENANCE OF THE MINISTRY IN the preceding chapter Paul has disposed of the question put to him regarding meats offered in sacrifice to idols. He has taken occasion to point out that in...
§ 27. PAUL'S APOSTOLIC STATUS. The Ap. is ready to forego his right to use the idolothyta, wherever this claim hurts the susceptibilities of any brother (1 Corinthians 8:13). He is “free” as any man i...
The rights P. vindicates for himself and his fellow-labourers in the Gospel, are (_a_) the right _to maintenance;_ (_b_) _to marriage;_ (_c_) _to release from manual labour_. (_a_) μὴ οὐκ ἔχομεν; “Is...
RIGHTS AND THEIR SURRENDER 1 Corinthians 9:1 Paul's claim to an equality with Peter and the other Apostles was violently disputed by his enemies at Corinth, because in several matters he differed fro...
The words, "my defence to them that examine me is this," reveal the opposition to him in Corinth. The two words, "defence" and "examine," are purely legal, and are in the language of the courts of jus...
Paul's Rights As An Apostle The church should feed its workers. As an apostle, Paul claimed the right to receive food and drink for his labors. It would seem most of the apostles were married. Paul an...
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to (f) forbear working? (f) Not live by the works of our hands....
VV. 6. The conj. ἤ, _or_, has here the meaning which it so frequently has in Paul's writings: “ _Or indeed_ in the opposite case would it happen that...?” No doubt Barnabas had not been called to the...
“Have we not right to eat and to drink? 5. Have we not right to lead about a sister as wife, as well as the other apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? 6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not...
3. THE EXAMPLE OF ABNEGATION GIVEN BY PAUL. 9:1-22. IT is easy, from what we have just said, to understand the link which connects the following passage with the question treated by the apostle. It is...
(1) Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? (2) If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine 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...
The apostle was exposed to the accusations of false teachers, who asserted that he carried on his evangelisation and his labours from interested motives, and that he took the property of Christians, a...
OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS,.... Who were for a great while companions and fellow travellers; are we alone? are we exempted from those rights and privileges, common to others? HAVE NOT WE POWER TO FORBEAR...
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? Ver. 6. _To forbear working_] At our trade? Yes, or else I should easily be of Melancthon's mind, who when one had said of the ministry,...
_Or I only and Barnabas_ Of all the preachers of the gospel; _have not we power to forbear working_ With our hands? “From this it appears that Barnabas, as well as Paul, preached the gospel without de...
POWER TO FORBEAR WORKING; to abstain from working for their own support....
OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS, HAVE NOT WE POWER TO FORBEAR WORKING?...
PAUL THE FREE SERVANT OF CHRIST. Defending his Christian liberty:...
Because of the lowliness and grace on the part of the apostle, such as chapter 8 shows in the consideration of his brethren, there were some who would use this as an occasion to belittle him. He made...
OR. ONLY AND BARNABAS, HAVE WE NOT. RIGHT TO FORBEAR WORKING? 'and Barnabas' -another well known Christian evangelist who had also supported himself in. trade. 'The allusion implies wide-spread know...
1-14 It is not new for a minister to meet with unkind returns for good-will to a people, and diligent and successful services among them. To the cavils of some, the apostle answers, so as to set fort...
Are I and Barnabas the only apostles who are obliged for our livelihood to work with our hands? As Paul did, ACTS 18:3, making tents. We certainly, as well as the rest of the apostles, if we would run...
Or I only and Barnabas [Though not one of the twelve, he is called an apostle (Acts 14:14), for he was a messenger or apostle of the Holy Spirit, and of the church at Antioch (Acts 13:2) and was assoc...
Tertullian On Modesty For there is extant withal an Epistle to the Hebrews under the name of Barnabas-a man sufficiently accredited by God, as being one whom Paul has stationed next to himself in the...
1 Corinthians 9:6 Or G2228 only G3441 Barnabas G921 and G2532 I G1473 have G2192 (G5719) no G3756 right...
PAUL NOW POINTS OUT THAT HE REFUSES TO USE HIS FREEDOM IN ANY WAY THAT WOULD CAUSE YOUNG CHRISTIANS TO BE LED ASTRAY. HIS NEXT EXAMPLE REFERS TO HIS NOT RECEIVING GIFTS FOR HIS MINISTRY AMONG THEM WHI...
'My defence to those who examine me is this. "Have we no right to eat and to drink? Have we no right to lead about a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the L...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
1 Corinthians 9:6. OR I ONLY AND BARNABAS, HAVE WE NOT A RIGHT TO FORBEAR WORKING? for our maintenance, leaving our support to the churches we serve. The reasonableness of this as a principle is now i...
HAVE WE NOT A RIGHT TO FORBEAR WORKING? (ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν μη εργαζεσθαι;). By η (or) Paul puts the other side about Barnabas (the only allusion since the dispute in Acts 15:39, but in good spirit...
CONTENTS: Paul vindicates his apostleship. The method and reward of true ministry and the support of the ministry. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Cephas, Barnabas, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for...
1 Corinthians 9:1. _Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?_ Having illustrated the legal customs of the jews respecting meats, he introduc...
OR ARE BARNABAS AND I? Both Barnabas and Paul refused to take money from the people they were teaching the gospel (_but see note on_ 2 Corinthians 11:8). As an apostle, Paul had the right to: (1) rece...
_Am I not an apostle?_ Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? SIGNS OF APOSTLESHIP Why should Paul, departing from his usual custom, speak here of himself and his claims? Undoubtedly...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 9:6 BARNABAS was a Jewish Christian from the priestly tribe of Levi. He was from Cyprus and was an early member of the Jerusalem church (Ac
CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He proceeds to show by his own example how offences are to be avoided, and he says that he had refused to accept payment, or the maintenance due to a preacher of...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 9:1.—Notice the reversed order of clauses in the better-attested reading. FREE.—_I.c. quâ_ man; he is always Christ’s “bondservant”; it is of his own choice that he subm...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1 The rights and the self denial of an apostle. 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1 An apostle's right to maintenance....
Shall we turn in our Bibles to I Corinthians, chapter 9. I could do a lot of things I don't do. The reason why I don't do them is I do not want to be an offense unto a weaker brethren and destroy his...
1 Corinthians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7;...
Barnabas. The only mention of Barnabas along with Paul since the quarrel, Acts 14:39. Forbear working. For their own support. Ergazesqai to work, is the regular word for manual labor. See Matthew 21:2...
To forbear working — With our hands....