"What will you? It was left desolate until B.C.46, when Julius Caesar refounded it as a Roman colony. This letter continues to be timely for the church today, both to instruct and to inspire. A few miles away, at the shrine of Poseidon, were held the athletic Isthmian games, and still by the sea-shore there grow the pine trees, such as furnished the quickly withering wreaths which were given to the victors in the race.The Church of Corinth was founded by St. Paul on his second missionary journey, during his first visit to Europe.
They were puffed up with eloquence and philosophic speculation, and forgot that there is no "sweetness and light" comparable to the Gospel.This Epistle was written from Ephesus in the spring of A.D.55. The genuineness of 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans is admitted by almost every modern critic, Christian or not Christian. Danger of thinking that we stand.
This landmark commentary, originally published in 1987, has been lauded as the best study available of Paul's theologically rich first letter to the Corinthians. (vii, 25-40.) "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of "Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction" (x, 11). But the married must not separate. As matters were too pressing to wait for the arrival of Timothy, St. Paul at once wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians and sent it by Titus about This is generally regarded as the greatest of the writings of St. Paul by reason of the magnificence and beauty of its style and the variety and importance of its contents. The note at the end of the Epistle to the effect that it was written "from Philippi," though ancient, is incorrect, and is due to a misunderstanding of xvi.5.When St. Paul left Corinth in April, A.D.52, to go to Jerusalem, Apollos came to take his place, and preached with much success (Acts xviii.27). Must say I read every word of the whole book.
. The grave disorders that existed in this assembly were the immediate occasion for the Epistle being written; it is therefore a corrective epistle. It was written to replace the 1953 New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT) volume on 1 Corinthians written by F.W. Charity the greatest gift (xiii.). In the name of "For what have I to do to judge them that are without . We seem to see the men and women who composed it -- their eagerness for religious novelties, their debased surroundings, their anarchic divisions, their frail sense of moral responsibility. (iv, 21). Christ is supreme over all (i.10-iv.21).Incest. St. Paul's example in not claiming one's own rights (ix.). The historical and internal evidence that they were written by St. Paul is so overwhelmingly strong that their authenticity has been frankly admitted by every distinguished writer of the most advanced critical schools. All spiritual {138} increase comes from God.
Alford and others infer from the words of II Cor., xii, 20, 21; xiii, 1, "Behold this is the St. Paul, hearing of this state of things, sent Timothy together with Erastus (probably the "treasurer of the city" of Corinth - Rom., xvi, 23) round by Macedonia, to put things in order. The possession of two good harbours, and its position on the quickest route from Rome to the East, caused a rapid revival of Corinthian wealth and Corinthian manners. 'Clement to Corinthians') is a letter addressed to the Christians in the city of Corinth. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue.
. They were ready to form cliques and quarrel in the name of Christ, and they still showed the same quarrelsome mood in the time of St. Clement. With a high, strong citadel at its back, it lay between the Saronic Gulf and the Ionian Sea, with ports at Lechaion and Cenchrea. There is nothing in the New Testament equal to this Epistle in its power of bringing us close to the difficulties of the Church in an ancient city. The First Epistle to the Corinthians (The New International Greek Testament Commentary) He says, "Take up the Epistle of the blessed Paul the apostle. St. Paul mentions a previous warning not to associate with immoral Christians (v.).Going to law with a Christian in the pagan courts is rebuked. It deals first with the report which St. Paul had received about the Corinthian Church (i.-vi. This is rebuked on the ground that all the apostles, etc., are working for one end, and all their power is God's. and AD 140, most likely around 96. The Romans called the whole of Greece the province of Achaia, and constituted Corinth the capital of it. In the time of St. Paul the descendants of the original Roman colonists probably formed a small aristocracy among the mass of Greek dwellers at Corinth, and some settlements of various nationalities, including one of Jews, were living there.
Under present circumstances, the apostle would prefer others to be unencumbered as he is (vii.