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Verse 1 Corinthians 16:4. _AND IF IT BE MEET_, c.] If it be a business
that requires my attendance, and it be judged proper for me to go to
Jerusalem, I will take those persons for my companions. On t...
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AND IF IT BE MEET ... - If it be judged desirable and best. If my
presence can further the object; or will satisfy you better; or will
be deemed necessary to guide and aid those who may be sent, I wil...
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2. EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. Concerning Collections. (1 Corinthians 16:1)_
2. Ministry. (1 Corinthians 16:5)
3. Greetings. (1 Corinthians 16:19
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1 CORINTHIANS 16. VARIOUS BUSINESS AND PERSONAL MATTERS. SALUTATION.
First (1 Corinthians 16:1) he gives instructions as to the collection
for the poor Christians at Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8 f.*, Ro...
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PRACTICAL PLANS (1 Corinthians 16:1-12)...
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With regard to the collection for the people of Christ, do you too
follow the instructions which I gave to the Churches of Galatia. Every
first day of the week each of you must put by and save up what...
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IF. App-118....
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_they shall go with me_ Under no circumstances would St Paul take
charge of the money himself. It was, moreover, fitting that members of
the Corinthian Church should have the pleasure, as well as the...
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ΤΟΥ͂ ΚἈΜῈ ΠΟΡΕΎΕΣΘΑΙ. See Mr Carr’s note on
Matthew 2:13. Not only would St Paul avoid all possibility of
accusation, but it was fitting that those who had collected the money
should have the satisfac...
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1 Corinthians 16:1-24. SUNDRY PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS. CONCLUSION...
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_THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1-4:_ A terrible
famine was taking place in Judea. (Acts 11:27-30) Many of the
Christians there found themselves in deep poverty. This situation
last...
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ΆΞΙΟΝ (G514) достойное, нечто равное по
весу, справедливое, правильное. Павел
хочет тоже отправиться в путь, если
обстоятельства потребуют этого
(Grosheide).
Ή _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быт...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 1
Endow (1 Corinthians 16:1-9)
16 Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the
churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2On the first day of every
w...
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And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
MEET - `worth while.' If your collections be large enough to be worth
an apostle's journey (a stimulus to their liberality), I will
accompa...
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40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed
to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians,
but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
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THE COLLECTION. PERSONAL MESSAGES AND CONCLUSION
The Apostle in this chapter instructs the Corinthians to make a
collection for the poor Christians in Judæa, intimates his intention
of visiting them a...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 16
PLANS ABOUT THE MONEY FOR JERUSALEM 16:1-4
V1 Now I will write about the money for God’s people. Do what I
told the churches in Galatia...
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CHAPTER 25
THE POOR
IN closing his letter to the Corinthians, Paul, as usual, explains his
own movements, and adds a number of miscellaneous directions and
salutations. These for the most part relate...
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The Cor [2616] are to choose delegates to bear their bounty, who will
travel to Jerus. with P., if this be deemed fit. Acts 20:1-4 shows
that in the event a large number of representatives of Gentile...
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§ 57. CONCERNING THE COLLECTION. During his Third Missionary Journey
P. was collecting money for the relief of the Christian poor in
Jerusalem. Two chaps. in the middle of 2 Cor. are devoted to this
b...
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SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE
1 Corinthians 16:1
It is remarkable that the Apostle can turn from one of his sublimest
flights of sacred eloquence to deal with so ordinary a matter as the
collection. But, af...
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The last chapter of the epistle is local and personal. In the first
sentences important principles are revealed as to the true method of
Christian giving. It is to be regular and systematic rather tha...
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The Collection For the Saints
Paul next gave directions concerning what appears to be the same
collection mentioned in Romans 15:26-27. Some Jewish converts had been
responsible for teaching Gentiles....
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(2) And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
(2) The rest of the epistle is spent in writing of familiar matters,
yet so that all things are referred to his purposed mark, that is to...
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“Concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to
the Churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2. Upon the first day of the
week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he hath prospe...
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(1) Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given
order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. (2) Upon the first
day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God ha...
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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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The apostle, in his letter, had treated of the disorder that reigned
among these believers, and his spirit was to a certain degree relieved
by fulfilling this duty towards them; for, after all, they w...
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AND IF IT BE MEET THAT I GO ALSO,.... If it should be convenient for
me to go, or it should be thought proper and expedient that I should
go; or, as the Syriac version renders it, "if this work should...
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And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Ver. 4. _That I go also_] And go he did, Romans 15:25; Acts 24:17. The
very angels hold not themselves too good to serve the saints....
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_Upon the first day of the week_ So κατα μιαν σαββατων
here signifies, the Hebrews using the numeral for the ordinal numbers,
as Genesis 1:5, _The evening and the morning were one day;_ that is,
the f...
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AND IF IT BE MEET THAT I GO ALSO, THEY SHALL GO WITH ME.
That God is by no means indifferent to the manner in which the
business end of a congregation's work is carried on is seen from this
paragraph....
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CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS.
Regarding the collection for Jerusalem:...
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This last chapter forms a fourth division of the book of I
Corinthians, with its simple, practical instructions. The unity of the
body of Christ is to be expressed in genuine practical care for the
ne...
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AND IF IT BE MEET FOR ME TO GO ALSO, THEY SHALL GO WITH ME.
'if it be meet for me to go' -'and if it is fitting for me to go also'
(NASV); 'If it seems right for me to go as well' (Phi); 'he may mean...
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1-9 The good examples of other Christians and churches should rouse
us. It is good to lay up in store for good uses. Those who are rich in
this world, should be rich in good works, 1 Timothy 6:17; 1...
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To encourage them to the more free and liberal contribution, he
promiseth them himself to go along with those that carried it, if it
were thought meet. Whether Paul, according to this promise, did go...
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and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me. [Paul does
not ask to be made custodian of the offering. He directs the church to
appoint its own messengers to carry it, thus raising himse...
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1 Corinthians 16:4 But G1161 if G1437 is G5600 (G5753) fitting G514 go
G4198 (G5738) also G2504 go...
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THE FINAL QUESTION. THE COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF GOD'S NEEDY PEOPLE
(16:1-4).
Illustrating the previous verse Paul now brings them down to
practicalities. They had asked concerning the collecting of m...
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'And if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.'
And he assured them that if the situation was right and it proved
suitable, and agreeable to them, he might himself accompany them. But
t...
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_Collection for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem,_ 1-4.
The occasion of this “collection” was the “great dearth” which
a Christian prophet who came from Jerusalem to Antioch predicted would
come upon the...
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AND IF IT BE MEET FOR ME TO GO ALSO
(εαν δε αξιον η του καμε πορευεσθα). "If
the collection be worthy of the going as to me also." Condition of
third class (εαν--η) and the articular infinitive in...
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CONTENTS: Closing instructions and greetings of Paul.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Apollos, Aquila, Priscilla,
Stephanas, Fortunatus, Achaicus.
CONCLUSION: The Christian should lay by money in...
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1 Corinthians 16:1. _The collection for the saints,_ chiefly for the
poor ministers of the word. This was to be done once a week, and it is
the ancient and best way for poor people to support the gosp...
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IF IT SEEMS WORTHWHILE. Paul did go. Compare 2 Corinthians 8:23; 2
Corinthians 9:4; Acts 19:21; Acts 20:3;...
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_Now concerning the collection._
COLLECTION IN CHURCH
This is in close connection with the sublime argument about the
resurrection. There is no gulf between doctrine and duty; rather, most
intimate...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 The Collection for the
Saints and Travel Plans. Paul explains how his future ministry will
involve the Corinthians....
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CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _Now concerning the collection for the saints._ The
saints here meant were the poor Christians living at Jerusalem. Cf.
ver. 3 and Romans 15:26. For the Christians at Jerusalem, as...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 16:1. THE COLLECTION.—Very fully dealt with in 2
Corinthians 8,
9. Traceable thus; earlier, in Galatians 2:10, Paul’s original
pledge that he would “remember the poor,
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 16:1
_Directions and arrangements._
1 CORINTHIANS 16:1
NOW CONCERNING THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS. "The saints" are here
the poor Christians at Jerusalem ...
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And so he writing to them now about taking up a collection for the
saints [that are in Jerusalem], as he asked also the churches in the
area of Galatia. Now he said on the first day of the week (1
Cor...
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2 Corinthians 8:19; 2 Corinthians 8:4; Romans 15:25...
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Meet for me to go [α ξ ι ο ν τ ο υ κ α μ ε π ο ρ ε υ
ε σ θ α ι]. Lit., if it be worthy of my going, i e., if the gift
be sufficiently large to warrant an apostolic journey to Jerusalem.
This is better...
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THE POSTLUDE
1 Corinthians 16:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Final words are always listened to eagerly among friends. That is the
reason we are calling the study for today, a postlude, because they
are the...
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They shall go with me — To remove any possible suspicion....