The Corinthians' fancied position is contrasted with the Apostle's actual position. Last, as it were appointed to death] RV 'last of all, as men doomed to death.' He likens the Apostles to criminals condemned to fight to the death in the arena. For the metaphor cp. 1 Corinthians 15:32. A few years later Christians were often so put to death. Spectacle] Gk. 'theatre.'
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:9. _GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST_] This whole passage is well explained by Dr. Whitby. "Here the apostle seems to allude to the Roman spectacles, της των θηριομαχων,...
FOR I THINK - It seems to me. Grotius thinks that this is to be taken ironically, as if he had said, “It seems then that God has designed that we, the apostles, should be subject to contempt and suffe...
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...
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...
THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
HATH. Omit. SET FORTH. Greek. _apodeiknumi._ See Acts 2:22. APOSTLES. App-189. LAST. They were the successors of the prophets in this. Acts 7:52. APPOINTED TO DEATH. Greek. _epithanatios._ Only he...
_For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were approved to death_ So the original version of 1611. Our modern Bibles read _appointed_with Tyndale and Cranmer. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthi...
Contrast between the Corinthian Teachers and St Paul 8. _Now ye are full, now ye are rich_ Here we have one of the sudden turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle's style. Abruptly breaking off a...
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
9. [ὅτι] added after ΔΟΚΩ͂ ΓΆΡ, to complete the construction, with E Vulg. (authorized ed.) and Peshito. Omit אABCDFG Vetus Lat. and some ancient MSS. of Vulg. 9. ΓΆΡ gives the reason for ὄφελον. ἘΠΙ...
_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...
ΔΟΚΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ (G1380) думать, полагать, предполагать, ΈΣΧΑΤΟΣ (G2078) последний, ΆΠΈΔΕΙΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G584) показывать, проявлять, демонстрировать. Термин, о...
THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST, &C.— The Apostle seems here to refer to the Roman custom of bringing forth on the theatre, in the latter part of the day, either to fight with each other,...
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 I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST, AS IT WERE APPOINTED TO DEATH: FOR WE ARE MADE A SPECTACLE UNTO THE WORLD, AND TO ANGELS, AND TO MEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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 introduces the reason why he may well express the devout wish which he has just uttered for the coming of the kingdom of his Lord. The imagery of this passage would be easily understood...
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...
gives reason in Paul's sorrowful state for the wish that has escaped him. δοκῶ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς κ. τ. λ. (ὅτι vanting after δοκῶ, as in 1 Corinthians 7:40; so in Eng.): “For, methinks, God has inhibited (_s...
§ 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?...
Paul's View of the Apostles' Position In contrast to the Corinthians' lofty thoughts of themselves, Paul gives his thoughts on the apostles' state. They suffered persecution and would continue to suff...
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a (g) spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. (g) He that thinks that Paul and th...
Made a spectacle. It is evident from the writings of St. Paul, and from innumerable other records, that the apostles were made a spectacle to the world and to men; but how, some one may perhaps ask, w...
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 I think that God hath set forth us apostles, as the last, as appointed to death, for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and to men.” Most modern commentators make the irony st...
(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...
9._For I think_, etc. It is uncertain whether he speaks of himself exclusively, or takes in at the same time Apollos and Silvanus, for he sometimes calls such persons apostles. I prefer, however, to u...
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 I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST,.... Meaning either in time, in respect to the prophets and patriarchs under the former dispensation; and to the apostles, who were sent forth...
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. Ver. 9. _As it were men appointed to de...
_For God hath set forth us the apostles_ And all faithful ministers; _last, as it were appointed to death_ He alludes to the Roman theatrical spectacles, in which those persons were brought forth last...
LAST; assigned to the lowest place as it regards shame and suffering, as if we were the vilest of men; "the filth of the world," and "the offscouring of all things," verse 1 Corinthians 4:13. APPOINT...
The status of the heralds of salvation:...
FOR I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US, THE APOSTLES, LAST, AS IT WERE APPOINTED TO DEATH; FOR WE ARE MADE A SPECTACLE UNTO THE WORLD AND TO ANGELS AND TO MEN....
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...
SPECTACLE: _ Gr._ theater...
FOR,. THINK, GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST OF ALL, AS MEN DOOMED TO DEATH: FOR WE ARE MADE. SPECTACLE UNTO THE WORLD, BOTH TO ANGELS AND MEN. 'For' -'And there is abundant reason for this...
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...
FOR I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST, AS IT WERE APPOINTED TO DEATH; the lot of us who are the apostles of Christ is not so externally happy, but a lot of poverty and misery, as if...
For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. [As, after the end of the performance, condemn...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat; we are become as it were the offscourings of the world."[79] Tertullian Agains...
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‘For, I think, God has set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wi...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:9. FOR I THINK, GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST OF ALL, AS MEN DOOMED TO DEATH... A SPECTACLE (to be gazed on as in a theatre) UNTO THE WORLD, AND TO ANGELS, AND TO MEN to exhi...
[1] The allusion may be, as has been suggested, to the practice of depositing treasure in vessels of earthenware....
HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST (ημας τους αποστολους εσχατους απεδειξεν). The first aorist active indicative of αποδεικνυμ, old verb to show, to expose to view or exhibit (Herodotus), in techni...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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...
THE VERY LAST PLACE. Paul's experiences at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 15:32) probably make him think of this. See also 2 Corinthians 2:14. Paul is showing the Corinthians the contrast between the false te...
_Now ye are full … rich … as kings._ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTERFEIT AND THE REAL CHRISTIAN I. The counterfeit-- 1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher. 2. Is s...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:9 EXHIBITED... LIKE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH. Paul probably refers to the Roman triumphal processions, in which captured enemy soldiers were paraded through the str...
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 I think that God hath set forth us, the Apostles, last, as it were appointed to death._ (1.) He contrasts himself and the true Apostles with those vain teachers who sought their own glory and the...
_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 Corinthians 15:30; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:9;...
For. Introducing a contrast between the inflated self - satisfaction of the Corinthians and the actual condition of their teachers. You have come to reign, but the case is very different with us, for...
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...
God hath set forth us last, as appointed to death — Alluding to the Roman custom of bringing forth those persons last on the stage, either to fight with each other, or with wild beasts, who were devot...