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1 CORINTHIANS 3:5 ti, … ti,
Instead of ti, (“What?”) the Textus Receptus, following î46 C D F
G and most minuscules, reads ti,j (“Who?”) in both instances. The
masculine, however, appears to be a...
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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:5. _MINISTERS BY WHOM YE BELIEVED_] The
different apostles who have preached unto you the word of life are the
_means_ which God has used to bring you to the knowledge of Christ....
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WHO THEN IS PAUL ... - See the notes at 1 Corinthians 1:13. Why should
a party be formed which should be named after Paul? What has he done
or taught that should lead to this? What eminence has he tha...
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CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The Carnal state of the Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 3:1)._
2. The Workmen and their Work. (1 Corinthians 3:10).
3. The Church the Temple of God. (1 Corinthians
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RENEWED CONDEMNATION OF PARTY SPIRIT. Paul has now reached a point
where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has
been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiving...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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And I, brothers, could not talk to you as I would to spiritual men,
but I had to talk to you as to those who had not yet got beyond merely
human things, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to dri...
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MINISTERS. servants. App-190.
BY. through. App-104. 1 Corinthians 3:1.
BELIEVED. App-150.
THE LORD. App-98.
GAVE. See Ephesians 4:11.
EVERY MAN. each (one)....
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ΤΊ. So אAB Vetus Lat. Vulg. τίς CDEFG Peshito.
[ἀλλ' ἤ]. The uncials, almost without exception, Vetus Lat. and
Vulg. omit these words before διάκονοι. The Peshito retains
them. It is clearly an addit...
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CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE
SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
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_THE PREACHERS ARE SERVANTS 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-10:_ Apollos and Paul
were merely servants or ministers that had helped these brethren have
faith. Paul had no desire for preachers to receive special hon...
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ΔΙΆΚΟΝΟΣ (G1249) раб, слуга, помощник,
посланник (LN, 1:460-61; TDNT; EDNT; NIDNTT, 3:544-49; CCFJ,
1:456; MM; Schrage). Это слово исключает власть
и личную заинтересованность, а также
подчеркивает за...
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DISCOURSE: 1944
UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED
1 Corinthians 3:5. _Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I
have planted,...
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WHO THEN IS PAUL, &C.— Some would read this and the following verse
thus: _Who is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed?—And as the Lord gave to every man, I planted, Apollos
wat...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Builders: All Christians are workers in God's
fieldbuilders on God's building. What are apostles? Workers, like
every other Christian. They may have gifts from Go...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17)
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plant...
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Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
PAUL ... APOLLOS. 'Aleph (') A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate, read in the
reverse order, Apo...
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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...
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3:5 servants, (k-9) _ Diakonos_ . see Note, ch. 4.1; Romans 16:1 ....
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MINISTERS] i.e. servants who ministered to your needs. EVEN AS THE
LORD GAVE] i.e. according to the ability given by God....
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THE FAULT OF PARTY SPIRIT
The immaturity of the Corinthian converts and their unfitness for
anything but elementary instruction in the faith is proved by their
mutual jealousies and their disagreemen...
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PARAPHRASE. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I
say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary
Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any other...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 3
GOD’S WORKERS 3:1-9
V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I could not speak to you as if the *Holy
Spirit was guiding you. I had to speak to you as...
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The Apostle now proceeds to explain (1 Corinthians 3:5) what is the
true position and work of Christian ministers. He asserts that all
alike — both those who teach the simpler truths, and those who bu...
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CHAPTER 6
GOD'S HUSBANDRY AND BUILDING
PAUL having abundantly justified his method of preaching to the
Corinthians, and having shown why he contented himself with the simple
presentation of the Cross...
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§ 9. GOD'S RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH. One idea runs through this chapter
and into the next, that of _God's_ Church, _God's_ temple at Corinth,
in whose construction so many various builders are engaged (1...
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The Cor [491] Christians were quarrelling _over the claims of their
teachers_, as though the Church were the creature of men: “What
therefore (I am compelled to ask) is Apollos? what, on the other sid...
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§ 12. CHRIST'S SERVANTS ANSWERABLE TO HIMSELF. The Ap. has shown his
readers their own true position so high and yet so lowly (§ 11);
Paul, Apollos, Cephas are but part of a universe of ministry that...
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PROSPERITY COMES FROM GOD
1 Corinthians 3:1
In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must
realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one
God. A man may be _in...
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The reason for the schisms was that these people were carnal.
"Jealousy and strife" are evidences of carnality. Proceeding, Paul
declared the true value of the Christian ministry. "For we are God's
fe...
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Increase Comes From God
Paul wanted to know what it was about Apollos and himself that could
cause division. They were both "ministers," which is the same word
translated "deacons" in Acts 6:2 and me...
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(2) Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
(2) After he has sufficiently reprehended ambitious teachers, and
those who foolishly...
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In order to show what, in a religious organization like that which the
gospel creates, is the place of preachers, the apostle takes two
examples: Apollos and himself; and he develops what he means to...
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“What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Ministers by whom ye
believed, and that, as the Lord gave to each.”
There is no difficulty, whatever Hofmann may object, in connecting the
_then_ with the prev...
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(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4) For
while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; a...
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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...
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5._Who then is Paul _? Here he begins to treat of the estimation in
which ministers ought to be held, and the purpose for which they have
been set apart by the Lord. He names himself and Apollos rathe...
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They were not natural men; but they were carnal (not spiritual) men,
so that the apostle had to feed them with milk and not with meat which
was only fit for those that were of full age. That with whic...
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WHO THEN IS PAUL? AND WHO IS APOLLOS?.... The apostle's name being
used, and he a party concerned, could speak the more freely upon this
head, and ask what they thought of himself, and other preachers...
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Who then is Paul, and who _is_ Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Ver. 5. _But ministers_] Not masters, as _Magistri nostri
Parisienses._ (Praefat. in 1 S...
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_For while one saith, I am of Paul_ I am one of Paul's disciples,
admiring his sublime sentiments, and being greatly edified by his
instructive discourses: _and another, I am of Apollos_ I give the
pr...
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MINISTERS; servants of Christ engaged in one common work, and not
designed to be heads of different parties. Their object then was to
convert men, not to themselves, but to Christ....
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All ministers of Christ of equal rank:...
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WHO, THEN, IS PAUL AND WHO IS APOLLOS BUT MINISTERS BY WHOM YE
BELIEVED, EVEN AS THE LORD GAVE TO EVERY MAN?...
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But in practical experience the Corinthians were not properly
regarding, nor depending on, the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who had
been given to them. Paul could not write to them as spiritual, but a...
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WHAT THEN IS APOLLOS? AND WHAT IS PAUL? MINISTERS THROUGH WHOM YE
BELIEVED; AND EACH AS THE LORD GAVE TO HIM.
'What then is Apollos? and what is Paul?' -'In these verses Paul
begins his discussion ab...
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5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only
instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of
God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed b...
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Neither Paul, nor yet Apollos, are authors of faith to you, but only
instruments; it is the Lord that giveth to every man a power to
believe; or else that latter phrase, AS THE LORD GAVE TO EVERY MAN,...
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What [the neuter of disparagement]_ then is Apollos? and what is Paul?
Ministers_ [literally, deacons, i. e., servitors-- Acts 6:2;
Colossians 1:7; not leaders-- Luke 22:25-26] _through whom_ ["not in...
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1 Corinthians 3:5 Who G5101 then G3767 is G2076 (G5748) Paul G3972 and
G1161 who G5101 Apollos G625 but...
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‘What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministers through whom you
believed, and each one as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the increase.'
Elsewhere Paul will tell Christi...
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1 Corinthians 3:5. WHAT THEN IS APOLLOS, AND WHAT IS PAUL? MINISTERS
mere _‘_ servants.' THROUGH WHOM (as instruments) YE BELIEVED, AND
EACH AS THE LORD GAVE TO HIM....
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WHAT THEN?
(τ ουν;). He does not say τις (who), but τ (what), neuter
singular interrogative pronoun.MINISTERS
(διακονο). Not leaders of parties or sects, but merely servants
through whom ye believ...
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1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._
Their spiritual part had not grown strong, their old carnal nature
still had the pr...
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1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._
The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and
great abilities....
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CONTENTS: Hindrance of a carnal state to spiritual growth. Christian
service and its reward.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Apollos, Cephas.
CONCLUSION: Our salvation rests solely upon t...
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1 Corinthians 3:1. _Babes in Christ,_ like children at the breast,
requiring to be _fed with milk, and not with meat._ Our great tutor
here addresses the Corinthians in a superior style of eloquence,...
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AFTER ALL? Neither Paul nor Apollos were "the Lord" in matters of
religion. They were simply God's servants, working together to
proclaim the Good News. The "party spirit" of the Corinthians
contrasts...
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CHAPTER III.
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
He endeavours to put an end to the divisions among the Corinthians, by
reminding them of their mutual subjection and union in Christ and God.
I. He points out t...
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_Even as the Lord gave to every man._ God gave to each one of His
ministers powers of such kind and such extent as befitted his
ministry. Therefore they should glory in God alone, not in Paul or
Apoll...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 3:5.—Better reading “_what?_” not “_who?_”
Also “_through_.” Not, “As the Lord gave _to every man of you_
the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted _to...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1
_The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature._
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1
I… COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL. Though softened by
the word brethren, there was a cr...
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Let's turn now to I Corinthians, chapter 3.
Beginning with the fourteenth verse of chapter 2, Paul here separates
men into three classifications. Starting in chapter 2 with the natural
man, the unrege...
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1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1
Corinthians 3:7;...
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THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN
1 Corinthians 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the
unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the other, the r...
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As if the apostle had said, "Neither Paul nor Apollos were the authors
of your faith, but only ministerial helpers of it, as God is pleased
to furnish them with gifts, and to give. blessing to their m...