Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

1 Corinthians 14:33

οὐ γάρ ἐστιν�. Literally, for God is not (a God) of unsettlement. Cf. James 3:16. Also Luke 21:9, where ἀκαταστασία is rendered commotion. As in the natural, so in the moral and spiritual world, God is a God of order. The forces of nature operate by laws which are implicitly obeyed. If it be otherwise in the moral and spiritual world, God is not the author of the confusion, but man, who has opposed himself to His Will.

ὡς ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις τῶν ἁγίων. It is a question whether these words belong to what goes before or what follows. If to what goes before, it would seem as though a hint was intended that these disorders were peculiar to the Corinthian Church. If to what follows, it is a repetition of the argument in ch. 1 Corinthians 7:17; 1 Corinthians 11:16, and it would then appear that the Apostle had especial reason to fear insubordination on the question of the position of woman in the Christian assembly, and that he therefore fortifies his own authority by an appeal to the universal custom of the Church of Christ. The analogy of 1 Corinthians 11:16 is strongly in favour of the punctuation in the text.

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