Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
1 Corinthians 4:7-9
[1] The allusion may be, as has been suggested, to the practice of depositing treasure in vessels of earthenware.
[1] The allusion may be, as has been suggested, to the practice of depositing treasure in vessels of earthenware.
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:7. _FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER_] It is likely that the apostle is here addressing himself to some _one of those puffed up_ _teachers_, who was glorying in his _gifts_, and in...
FOR WHO MAKETH ... - This verse contains a reason for what Paul had just said; and the reason is, that all that any of them possessed had been derived from God, and no endowments whatever, which they...
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...
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...
THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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...
MAKETH... TO DIFFER. App-122. Note the change from plural in 1 Corinthians 4:6 to the singular here. IF. App-118. GLORY. boast, as in 1 Corinthians 1:29. AS IF THOU HADST NOT. as not (Greek. _me)_...
1 Corinthians 4:1-7. The true estimation of Christ's ministers and the true criterion of their work After having pointed out the light in which the teachers of Christianity should be regarded, the Ap...
_For who maketh thee to differ from another_ Cf. St John 3:27; James 1:17. All the gifts they had received were of God, and this fact excluded as a matter of course all boasting or self-satisfaction....
ΤΊΣ ΓΆΡ ΣΕ ΔΙΑΚΡΊΝΕΙ; Literally, ‘for who SEPARATES thee?’ Hence comes the idea of distinction in one’s own mind and then in that of another. διακρίνω is opposed to συγκρίνω (combine) in the passage f...
THE TRUE ESTIMATION OF CHRIST’S MINISTERS AND THE TRUE CRITERION OF THEIR WORK After having pointed out the light in which the teachers of Christianity should be regarded, the Apostle in this chapter...
_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...
ΔΙΑΚΡΊΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΚΡΊΝΩ (G1252) судить двоих, делать различие, отличать (Weiss; МН, 302; Fee). Вероятно, это надо воспринимать как риторический вопрос (Barrett), ΈΛΑΒΕΣ _aor. ind. ac...
DISCOURSE: 1953 GOD TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED IN EVERY THING 1 Corinthians 4:7. _Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if than didst receive it, why dos...
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,...
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Translate [ diakrine...
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. '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...
WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER] better, 'who maketh thee (who art puffed up) superior?' THAT THOU DIDST NOT RECEIVE] i.e. from us (whom ye now despise), as is shown by 1 Corinthians 4:8....
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...
FOR... — This is the explanation of why such “puffing up” is absurd. Even if one possess some gift or power, he has not attained it by his own excellence or power; it is the free gift of God....
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...
τίς γάρ σε διακρίνει; “for who marks thee off?” (or “separates thee? _discernit_, Vg [691] ”) what warrant for thy boasting, “I am of Paul,” etc., for ranging thyself in this coterie or that? “The διά...
§ 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...
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...
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?...
Thoughts on the Corinthians' Boasting No one man, even Paul or Apollos, should be followed in things not revealed by God. Paul used his and Apollos' name to avoid hurting the real leaders of the divis...
(8) For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if (f) thou hadst not received [it]? (8) He sh...
For who distinguisheth, or hath distinguished thee from another? He speaks particularly to those proud, vain preachers: if thou hast greater talents than another man, who hath given them to thee, or t...
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...
“For who maketh thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?” Here is the standard indicated by...
(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...
_EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY_ ‘For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?’ 1 Corinthians 4:7 The remarkable inequalities of endowment which exist amongs...
7._For who distinguisheth thee? _The meaning is — “Let that man come forward, whosoever he be, that is desirous of distinction, and troubles the Church by his ambition. I will demand of him who it is...
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...
FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER,.... This question, and the following, are put to the members of this church, who were glorying in, and boasting of the ministers under whom they were conver...
For who maketh thee to differ _from another_ ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive _it_, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received _it_ ? Ver. 7. _For w...
_And these things_ Mentioned 1 Corinthians 1:10, &c., 1 Corinthians 3:4, &c.; _I have in a figure_ very obviously _transferred to myself and Apollos_ And Cephas, instead of naming those particular pre...
WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER? as to talents, condition, character, or influence. RECEIVE; from God. WHY DOST THOU GLORY; in thyself or other men? For whatever excellence any one has, he is indebted to...
All spiritual gifts from God:...
FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? AND WHAT HAST THOU THAT THOU DIDST NOT RECEIVE? NOW, IF THOU DIDST RECEIVE IT, WHY DOST THOU GLORY AS IF THOU HADST NOT RECEIVED IT? In order to make the il...
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...
MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER?: _ Gr._ distinguisheth thee?...
FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER? AND WHAT HAST THOU THAT THOU DIDST NOT RECEIVE? BUT IF THOU DIDST RECEIVE IT, WHY DOST THOU GLORY AS IF THOU HADST NOT RECEIVED IT? 'For' -'the reason why this puffing...
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...
It is apparent that pride was the reigning sin of many in this church of Corinth; pride, by reason of those parts and gifts wherein they excelled, whether they were natural or acquired habits, or comm...
For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? [God had made them to differ both in...
Tertullian On Prayer is a grace of God, and you have received it, "why do you boast," saith he, "as if you have not received it? "[149] Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins And if it is by God that...
1 Corinthians 4:7 For G1063 who G5101 makes G1252 you G4571 differ G1252 (G5719) And G1161 what G5101 have
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...
‘Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things that are written, that no one of you be puffed...
MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER (σε διακρινε). Distinguishes thee, separates thee. Διακρινω means to sift or separate between (δια) as in Acts 15:9 (which see) where μεταξυ is added to make it plainer. All s...
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...
WHO MADE YOU SUPERIOR TO THE OTHERS? _MacKnight_ understands Paul to be speaking to the false teacher. "What gift do you have that wasn't given to you by God through we apostles? How, then, can you br...
_For who maketh thee to differ from another?_ and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? HUMAN DIFFERENCES Why cannot we write poetry like John Milton, or paint like Raphael? One man seems to b...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:7 This set of rhetorical questions expresses the central theological truth the Corinthians seem to have forgotten: all their abilities, opportunities, and blessin...
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...
_For who maketh thee to differ from another?_ 1. The Greek word denotes as much the act of placing a man above others as separate him and dividing him off from them. So Theophylact paraphrases it, By...
_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...
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 Chronicles 29:11; 1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 3:5;...
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...
Who maketh thee to differ — Either in gifts or graces. As if thou hadst not received it — As if thou hadst it originally from thyself....
As if the apostle had said, "Who is it that maketh one minister to differ from and excel another? Is it not God? If so, then let those ministers that have received the greatest gifts from God, whom th...