Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 1:14-16

In fact, P. had himself baptised very few of the Cor [181] He sees a providence in this; otherwise he might have seemed wishful to stamp his own name upon his converts, and some colour would have been lent to the action of the Paulinists “lest any one should say that you were baptised into my name”. For βαπτίζω εἰς τὸ ὄνομα, cf. Matthew 28:19 and other parls.; also βαπτίζω εἰς, 1 Corinthians 10:2; it corresponds to πιστεύω εἰς, and has the like pregnant force. “The name” connotes the nature and authority of the bearer, and His relationship to those who speak of Him by it. Crispus and Gaius: both Roman names (see Introd., p [182] 733); the former a cognomen (Curly), the latter an exceedingly common prænomen. These two were amongst Paul's earliest converts (Acts 18:8; Romans 16:23), the former a Synagogue-ruler. On second thoughts (“he was reminded by his amanuensis,” Lt [183]; or by Steph. himself), P. remembers that he had “baptised the house of Stephanas” (see 1 Corinthians 16:15, and note), the first family here won to Christ. Στεφανᾶς (perhaps short for Στεφανηφόρος), like Κηφᾶς, takes the Doric gen [184] in - ᾶ usual with proper names in - ᾶς, whether of native or foreign origin (see Bm [185], p. 20). λοιπὸν οὐκ οἶδα εἴ τινα κ. τ. λ.: P. cannot recall any other instance of baptism by his own hands at Cor [186]; this was a slight matter, which left no clear mark in his memory, λοιπόν (more regularly, τὸ λοιπόν), “for the rest” in point of time (1 Corinthians 7:29), or number a somewhat frequent idiom with Paul (cf. 1 Corinthians 4:2). In οὐκ οἶδα εἰ (haud scio an), the conjunction is indir [187] interr [188], as in 1 Corinthians 7:16.

[181] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[182]. Paul.

[183] J. B. Lightfoot's (posthumous) Notes on Epp. of St. Paul (1895).

[184] genitive case.

[185] A. Buttmann's Grammar of the N.T. Greek (Eng. Trans., 1873).

[186] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[187]ndir. indirect.

[188]nterr. interrogative.

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