Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Corinthians 4:1-21
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.
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.
CHAPTER IV. _Ministers should be esteemed by their flocks as the stewards of_ _God, whose duty and interest it is to be faithful_, 1, 2. _Precipitate and premature judgments condemned_, 3-5. _The...
LET A MAN - Let all; let this be the estimate formed of us by each one of you. SO ACCOUNT OF US - So think of us, the apostles. AS THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST - As the servants of Christ. Let them form a...
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)...
Let a man then so think of us as the servants of Christ and stewards of the secrets which God reveals to his own people. In ordinary everyday life, that a man should be found faithful, is a quality re...
MAN. App-123. SO. This emphasizes the "as" which follows. ACCOUNT. reckon. Greek. _logizomai._ MINISTERS. App-190. CHRIST. App-98. STEWARDS. Greek. _oikonomos._ Occurs ten times. Always translated...
_Let a man so account of us_ -Of the things of which we have spoken this is the sum." We are not to be regarded for any qualifications we may have of our own, but simply as -the servants of the Most H...
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...
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...
ΟὝΤΩΣ ἩΜΑ͂Σ ΛΟΓΙΖΈΣΘΩ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ. ‘Of the things of which we have spoken this is the sum.’ We are not to be regarded for any qualifications we may have of our own, but simply as ‘the servants of the Mos...
_A CHALLENGE CONCERNING PREACHERS 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-6:_ First Corinthians four is a contrast between the "faithful" and the "faithless" stewards of God. Paul said that he, his fellow apostles and othe...
ΛΟΓΙΖΈΣΘΩ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G3049) подводить итоги, считать, рассматривать, ΆΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ (G444) человек; используется в неопределенном значении: "кто-л." или "любой" (Meyer; ММ),...
DISCOURSE: 1951 MINISTERS, THE LORD’S STEWARDS 1 Corinthians 4:1. _Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God, Moreover it is required in stewards...
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US, &C.— The Apostle intimates, that he was so far from arrogating the title assumed by the founders of the different sects of philosophy, and fromwishing to have scholars deno...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Partiality (1 Corinthians 4:1-5) 4 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2Moreover it is required of stewards that...
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. A MAN - every man. ACCOUNT OF US - Paul and Apollos, and all duly-called teachers. MINISTERS OF...
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...
4:1 servants (i-9) The appointed servant. Three words are translated 'servant'. _ doulos_ , a slave, bondman; _ diakonos_ , a person who acts or waits in service; and _ huperetes_ , as here, which is...
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...
MAN. — In a generic sense means “every one” (as in 1 Corinthians 11:28, and Galatians 6:1). US — _i.e.,_ Paul himself and Apollos. AS OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST. — Better, _as ministers of Christ._ T...
IV. (1-5) The first five verses of this chapter contain a further argument against party-spirit as it existed in the Corinthian Church — viz., that God alone can judge of any man’s work whether it be...
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...
“In this way let a man take account of us, _viz._, as servants of Christ, etc.” Οὕτως draws attention to the coming ὡς : the vb [631] λογιζέσθω implies a _reasonable_ estimate, drawn from admitted pri...
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?...
Stewards of God's Mysteries Paul next said that inspired spokesmen should simply be thought of as servants and stewards. Vine says the word servant should be thought of as "an under rower." Further, h...
Let (1) a (a) man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1) He concludes the duty of the hearers towards their ministers: that they do not esteem them...
_Mysteries of God. That is, the dogmas of faith, revealed by the Almighty. (Estius)_...
“Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.” After explaining what preachers _are not_, to show that no man should make himself dependent on them, the a...
(1) Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (2) Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. (3) But with me it is a very...
CONTENTS A further Account respecting Ministers. The humbling View Paul gives of himself, and his few faithful companions....
_THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY_ ‘Stewards of the mysteries of God.’ 1 Corinthians 4:1 In the early part of this chapter we have a description of the Christian ministry and its responsibility, and an asser...
1._Let a man so account of us _As it was a matter of no little importance to see the Church in this manner torn by corrupt factions, from the likings or dislikings that were entertained towards indivi...
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...
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US,.... Though the apostle had before said that he, and other ministers of the Gospel, were not any thing with respect to God, and, with regard to the churches, were theirs, fo...
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Ver. 1. _Let a man so account_] _Quasi dicat, _ though we are yours, as 1 Corinthians 3:22, devoted to...
_Let a man_, &c. Having warned the believers at Corinth against entertaining an undue esteem for their own ministers, he now proceeds to show them in what light they ought to view all true ministers o...
MINISTERS OF CHRIST; not of man; whose main business therefore is not to please man, but God-compare verse 1 Corinthians 4:3 -and who are not to be set up as the heads of parties. STEWARDS OF THE MYST...
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US, AS OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST AND STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD....
THE WORK OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST. Faithfulness required:...
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...
LET. MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US, AS OF MINISTERS OF CHRIST, AND STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD. 'Let. man so account of us' -'Paul takes up again (from 1 Corinthians 3:5-8) the discussion of God's preac...
1-6 Apostles were no more than servants of Christ, but they were not to be undervalued. They had a great trust, and for that reason, had an honourable office. Paul had a just concern for his own repu...
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Paul showeth in what account such as he should be held, of whose fidelity it should be left to God to judge. 1 CORINTHIANS 4:6,7 He dissuadeth the Corinthians...
Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. [Paul here gives the rule by which apostles and evangelists are to be estimated. They are not to be magnifi...
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let G3049 man G444 so G3779 consider G3049 (G5737) us G2248 as G5613 servants G5257 Christ
THE FAITHFULNESS REQUIRED OF CHRIST'S ASSISTANTS AND STEWARDS (4:1-5). Having summed up all in Christ and in God Paul now comes back to the fact that all men are therefore accountable to God. He speak...
‘Let a man so account of us as of assistants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Here moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.' All Christian teachers are to be se...
EVEN AS WE RECEIVED MERCY not so much, mercy to “put us into the ministry,” as mercy for the courageous discharge of it (1 Timothy 1:12-14), WE FAINT NOT: [1] [1] Our Authorised Version rightly depar...
1 Corinthians 4:1. LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US AS OF MINISTERS OF CHRIST, AND STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD. 1 Corinthians 4:2. Here, moreover, [1] _i.e._ in this matter of stewardship, IT IS REQUIR...
_Why do we not “faint_ ”? Answer, _First,_ Because of the _character_ of our ministry....
MINISTERS OF CHRIST (υπηρετας Χριστου). Paul and all ministers (διακονους) of the New Covenant (1 Corinthians 3:5) are under-rowers, subordinate rowers of Christ, only here in Paul's Epistles, thoug...
1 Corinthians 4:1 I. Consider what is really meant by speaking of human work as a "ministry of God." The conception of a ministry of God underlies our whole system of thought and expression, cropping...
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...
AS CHRIST'S SERVANTS. Paul goes back to the question of how much honor should be given to Christian teachers. Because of the almost divine honors which Greeks gave to the philosophers who were their l...
_Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God._ THE MINISTRY So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party-spirit, that he has still one...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1 MYSTERIES. Probably the gospel itself (see also Ephesians 6:19) and other truths God has revealed. See, e.g.,...
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...
_Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ._ I have forbidden you to boast yourselves in Paul or Apollos; but lest any man should therefore despise us, I say that every one should regar...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 4:1. SO.—Choose between (_a_) a forward reference to “_as_” (_e.g_. with Stanley), and (_b_) a backward reference (with, _e.g_., Evans, in _Speaker_, and Beet) to 1 Cori...
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 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 4:13; 1 Corinthians 9:16;...
Ministers [υ π η ρ ε τ α ς]. See on officer, Matthew 5:25. Only here in Paul's epistles. Stewards. See on Luke 16:1....
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...
Let a man account us, as servants of Christ — The original word properly signifies such servants as laboured at the oar in rowing vessels; and, accordingly, intimates the pains which every faithful mi...
As if the apostle had said, "Although. warned you, in the foregoing chapter, against an undue esteem of your pastors, and against. factious preference of some before others, to the great scandal of re...