Verse 14
14. I thank God For the unexpected good result of our actions, we may thank not our own wisdom, but God’s. Some might have thought his omission to baptize a guilty neglect; others may have felt the not being baptized by him a slight; he sees in it a complete condemnation of their making him their master.
Baptized none of you A remarkable fact that of so many converts of Paul, so few were baptized by him. A remarkable object of thanks. Baptism, solemn as is its import, being, nevertheless, more a performance of the hand than of brain or soul, is subordinate to preaching and government. At Corinth the rite was at first, doubtless, performed by Timothy and Silas, Paul’s attendants, and afterwards by elders and deacons ordained. Note, Acts 10:48.
But Crispus Note Acts 18:8. The notability of Crispus, the chief ruler, being converted by Paul, induced his being baptized by him.
Gaius At whose house probably he wrote the Epistle to the Romans. See our introduction to Romans, vol. iii, p. 286.
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