1 Corinthians 9:15. But I have used none of these things availed myself of none of these rights (the “ I ” here is emphatic)

and I write [2] not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than, etc. So thankful was he that he has been led to act at Corinth on this independent principle, that he feels a satisfaction in holding it up as an unanswerable refutation of those base insinuations against his motives.

[2] The epistolary aorist, expressing present action.

Continues after advertising
Continues after advertising

Old Testament