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Verse 1 Corinthians 4:15. _FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND
INSTRUCTERS_] μυριους παιδαγωγους, _Myriads of
leaders_, that is, an indefinite multitude; for so the word is often
used. The παιδαγωγος, fro...
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FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND INSTRUCTORS - Though you may have or
though you should have. It matters not how many you have, yet it is
still true that I only sustain the relation to you of spiritual...
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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 C...
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FATHERLY ADMONITION, ENTREATY, AND WARNING. The tone of mingled
severity, irony, and pathos disappears; yet the affection is combined
with sternness, and he warns them not to presume on his mildness....
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THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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THOUGHT. if. App-118. b
HAVE. should have.
INSTRUCTERS. Greek. _paidagogos._ Only here and Galatians 1:3;
Galatians 1:24, Gal 1:25.
CHRIST JESUS. App-98.
HAVE BEGOTTEN. begat. Greek. _gennao._ Com...
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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...
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CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
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_A CHARGE REGARDING THEIR SPIRITUAL FATHER 1 CORINTHIANS 4:14-16:_
Paul wrote these things to the Christians at Corinth to remind them
that he was their father in the faith. He had led them to the Lor...
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ΈΆΝ (G1437) если, с _conj._ вводит _conj._ 3 типа,
в котором предположение остается
невыраженным, но существует некоторая
надежда его реализации (Funk, 2:683).
ΜΥΡΊΟΥΣ _masc. асс. pl. от_ ΜΎΡΙΟΙ (G34...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Exasperating (1 Corinthians 4:14-21)
14 I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my
beloved children. 15For though you have countless guides in Ch...
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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye
not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.
FOR - I say, 'my sons.'
THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSA...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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FOR. — The reason why he has a right to address them as a father
would his children. They may have had since their conversion a host of
instructors, but they could have only one father who begot them...
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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...
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§ 14. PAUL'S FATHERLY DISCIPLINE. All has now been said that can be
concerning the Divisions at Cor [756] the causes underlying them, and
the spirit they manifest and foster in the Church. In their
se...
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TEACHING CONVERTS CHRIST'S WAYS
1 Corinthians 4:14
The relationship between the Apostle and his converts was very tender.
They were his children. They might have instructors and tutors, but
they cou...
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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?...
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Paul Loved the Church in Corinth Like a Father
Paul did not try to make the brethren feel bad because they added to
his problems. Rather, he wanted to warn them so they would change. He
wrote to them...
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_I write not. St. Paul here insinuates to the Corinthians, that they
ought to blush with shame for neglecting the apostles, who had
suffered so many hardships for them, to follow after teachers void o...
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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...
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(14) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I
warn you. (15) For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have bego...
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15._For though you had ten thousand. _He had called himself _father_,
and now he shows that this title belongs to him peculiarly and
specially, inasmuch as he alone has _begotten them in Christ. _In t...
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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...
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FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND INSTRUCTORS IN CHRIST,.... Or
"schoolmasters"; by whom he means the false teachers, whom, for
argument sake, he admits to be instructors in Christ, or ministers of
his,...
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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet _have ye_
not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.
Ver. 15. _Ten thousand instructors_] Gr. pedagogues,...
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_I write not these things to shame you_ Publicly to disgrace you, and
stain your credit with other churches; _but as my beloved sons I warn
you_ Show you in a mild and tender way what is wrong in your...
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I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU; his preaching was the means of their
regeneration; and as their spiritual father, it was proper for him to
reprove, rebuke, and exhort them with affectionate plainness....
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The apostle's fatherly discipline:...
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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...
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FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND TUTORS IN CHRIST, YET HAVE YE NOT MANY
FATHERS; FOR IN CHRIST JESUS. BEGAT YOU THROUGH THE GOSPEL.
'tutors' -'was used for the guide or attendant of the child who too...
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14-21 In reproving for sin, we should distinguish between sinners and
their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn, are likely
to reform. Though the apostle spoke with authority as a paren...
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The great lesson of this text is: That people ought to have a tender
respect for those ministers whom God hath hononred with their first
conversion, and bringing them home to Christ. God may make use...
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Though ye have ten thousand tutors [literally, pedagogues: the large
number rebukes their itch for teachers] _in Christ, yet have ye not
many fathers_ [they had but one--Paul]; _for in Christ Jesus I...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Rursus ad Corinthios scribens: "Si enim decies mille paedagogos,"
inquit, "habeatis in Christo, sed non multos patres. In Christo enim
per Evangelium ego vosge...
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1 Corinthians 4:15 For G1063 though G1437 have G2192 (G5725) thousand
G3463 instructors G3807 in G1722 Christ G5547 yet G235 not G3756 many
G4183 fathers G3962 for G1063 in G1722 Christ G5547 Jesus G2...
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‘I write these things not to shame you but to admonish you, as my
beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand tutors in
Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I
bro...
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1 Corinthians 4:15. FOR IF you SHOULD HAVE TEN THOUSAND INSTRUCTORS IN
CHRIST, YET HAVE YE NOT MANY FATHERS; FOR IN CHRIST JESUS I BEGAT YOU
THROUGH THE GOSPEL. Three agencies are named here as factor...
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TO ADMONISH
(νουθετων). Literally, admonishing (present active participle
of νουθετεω). See on 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians
5:14.FOR THOUGH YE SHOULD HAVE
(εαν γαρ εχητε). Third-class co...
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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...
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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...
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YOU HAVE ONLY ONE FATHER. PAIDAGOGOS = guardian, one who took care of
a child from the time it was a baby, feeding, clothing, and teaching
it, and taking it to and from school when it is that age. Pau...
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_I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn
you._
PAUL AN EXAMPLE TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS
He proceeds--
I. With love.
1. Not as a schoolmaster, but as a father.
2. Not t...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:15 COUNTLESS GUIDES. Apollos
and Cephas, among others. FATHER. See v. 1 Corinthians 4:17; Galatians
4:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:7, 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Philemon 1:10...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 4:14.—Irony dropped. Even in 1 Corinthians 4:6 it was
“Brothers!” Now, “Beloved children!” Yet surely he did desire
to make them ashamed of their bearing towards and es...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 9:1; 1
Corinthians 9:2; 1 Peter 1:23; 2 Corinthians 3:1; 2 Timothy 4:3; Acts
18:4; Galatians 4:19;...
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Tutors [π α ι δ α γ ω γ ο υ ς]. From paiv boy and ajgwgov
leader. The Paedagogus was a slave to whom boys were entrusted on
leaving the care of the females, which was somewhere about their
sixteenth y...
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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...
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I have begotten you — This excludes not only Apollos, his successor,
but also Silas and Timothy, his companions; and the relation between a
spiritual father and his children brings with it an inexpres...