Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 14:38
Verse 38. But if any man be ignorant] If he affect to be so, or pretend that he is ignorant; let him be ignorant-let him be so at his peril.
Verse 38. But if any man be ignorant] If he affect to be so, or pretend that he is ignorant; let him be ignorant-let him be so at his peril.
1 CORINTHIANS 14:38 avgnoei/tai {B} Although the external evidence may at first sight seem to favor avgnoei,tw (î46 B K Y 81 614 syrp, h arm eth _al_), several important representatives of the Alexan...
BUT IF ANY BE IGNORANT ... - If anyone affects to be ignorant of my authority, or whether I have a right to command. If he affects to doubt whether I am inspired, and whether what I utter is in accord...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the publ...
Paul now lays down the rules. At present at their assemblies all are eager to speak in one way or another. But the edification of the Church is to be the governing principle. Two may speak in tongues,...
Let women keep silent in the congregation, for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be in subjection even as the law says. If they wish to learn about anything, let them question their h...
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE WORSHIP (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)...
BE IGNORANT. Greek. _agnoeu._ See 1 Corinthians 10:1....
_But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant_ Some editors read - _he is ignored_" instead of - _let him be ignorant_." If we take the reading in the text, which seems preferable, the sense is tha...
Regulations to insure decency and order 26. _hath a psalm_ The Apostle here reproves another fault. Not only are the Corinthians ambitious rather of the gifts which attract attention, than of those wh...
ἈΓΝΟΕΊΤΩ BE, Peshito. ἀγνοεῖται אADFG Vulg. Tischendorf thinks that ἀγνοείτω, as the easier reading, has been introduced as a correction. He cites Origen in favour of his reading, but Origen’s text is...
REGULATIONS TO INSURE DECENCY AND ORDER...
_THE PROPER USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-40:_ Paul wanted it understood that when the church met for worship that everything that was done must be done for the good of all that were p...
ΑΓΝΟΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΝΟΈΩ (G50) быть в неведении, не знать. Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, предполагающем реальность уеловия. ΑΓΝΟΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass._ (G50) быть неведомым, быть неизвестным (B...
IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT,— By the _any man,_ mentioned in this and the foregoing verse, St. Paul seems particularly to intimate the false apostle, who pretended to give laws among them, and may well be...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Perfecting With Decorum and Decency (1 Corinthians 14:26-40) 26 What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Rules For Using Spiritual Gifts_ (20-40) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:20-40. Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is wr...
But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT - willfully; not wishing to recognize my apostolic authority in enjoining these ordinances. LET HIM BE IGNORANT. I leave h...
24 Predicting, or foretelling, is not necessarily involved in the gift of prophecy. The prophet, in Scripture, is the mouthpiece or spokesman of God. He may speak of the past, the present, or the futu...
LET HIM BE IGNORANT] RM 'If any man knoweth not, he is not known,' i.e. God does not recognise him. But perhaps the Apostle means, 'If any man will not learn, then he must just abide in his ignorance,...
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy_ The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares that i...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT. — There are here two readings in the Greek, for each of which there is strong evidence. The passage may run, either, as in the English, _if any man does not know this, let...
CHAPTER 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tongues...
§ 49. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS ON CHURCH ORDER. In 1 Corinthians 14:34 ff. P. returns to the matter which he first touched upon in reproving the disorderly Church life at Cor [2180], _viz_., the irregular b...
ἃ γράφω ὑμῖν, in the apodosis, includes, beside the last particular (1 Corinthians 14:34 ff.), the other instructions of this Ep.; προφήτης and πνευματικὸς in the protasis recall esp. the directions o...
ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES 1 Corinthians 14:26 Again the Apostle sums up his directions in two simple rules: 1. _Let all things be done unto edifying;_ that is, to building up individual character, and...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
Paul's Appeal To God's Order The brethren at Corinth were acting as if God's word was revealed only to them and they could tell everyone else how to act. Actually, Paul had brought them the word. Thos...
(17) But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. (17) The church ought not to care for those who are stubbornly ignorant, and will not abide to be taught, but to go forward nonetheless in those...
Did the word of God first come out from you? This he says, to check these new preachers, by putting them in mind, that they are not the first, nor the only Christians, and so must conform themselves t...
“Or, indeed, came the Word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 37. If any man think himself to be a prophet, or inspired, let him acknowledge that what I write unto you is from the Lord. 38...
There is more than indifference, there are severity and threatening in these words; they are addressed to the persons whose folly was characterized by the word δοκεῖ in the previous verse. “If there a...
(23) If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? (24) But...
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...
38._But if any man be ignorant _The old translation reads thus: _He that knows not this, will be unknown; _(889) but this is a mistake. For Paul had it in view to cut off every handle from contentious...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 ...
BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT,.... Of "these" words, as the Arabic version adds, and does not know and own them to be the commandments of Christ; though he may profess himself to be a prophet, or a spiri...
But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Ver. 38. _But if any man be ignorant, &c._] If stubbornly ignorant and uncounsellable; let him take his own course. I have cleared the truth in things...
_What! came the word of God out from you?_ Are ye of Corinth, the first church in the world, by whose example all others should be modelled? _Or came it unto you only?_ Are you the only Christian soci...
BE IGNORANT; of the fact that the directions which Paul gave were the commandments of God. LET HIM BE IGNORANT; it was not best for them to debate the matter further; but leave him to meet the conseq...
BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT, LET HIM BE IGNORANT....
Final regulations:...
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the bo...
34-40 When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families ought to assemble for promoting spiritual knowle...
If any one will pretend ignorance in this, he is wilfully ignorant; for my own part, I will concern myself no further about him, but leave myself and him also to the judgment of God; LET HIM BE IGNORA...
But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant. [Since Paul's words were dictated by the Spirit of God, any one filled with that Spirit would be guided to recognize his words as of divine authority,...
1 Corinthians 14:38 But G1161 anyone G1536 ignorant G50 (G5719) ignorant G50 (G5720) H
'If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. But if any man is ignorant, let him be i...
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE GATHERINGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gifts....
1 Corinthians 14:38. BUT IF ANY MAN IS IGNORANT, LET HIM BE IGNORANT: ‘If he will persist in his ignorance and obstinacy, let him remain so.'...
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best an...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary g...
BUT IF HE DOES NOT PAY ATTENTION. The one who proves himself a phony is to be ignored! Notice what Christ said in Matthew 7:22-23....
CHAPTER XIV SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He puts prophecy before the gift of tongues, because (_a_) it is of great use in edifying others, and tongues are not, unless some one interpret; (_b_) because...
_But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant._ He who is not willing to acknowledge these laws and my power will be ignorant, or ignored or condemned by God, who will say to him, "I know you not,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 14:1. FOLLOW AFTER.—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of whi
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Timothy 6:3; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 4:4; Hosea 4:17; Matthew 15:14
Let him be ignorant [α γ ν ο ε ι τ ω]. Let him remain ignorant. The text is doubtful. Some read ajgnoeitai he is not known; i e., he is one whom God knows not....
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically assert t...
Let him be ignorant — Be it at his own peril....