Verse 7
7. With their haughty spirit, St. Paul now expostulates. Christian modesty should inspire us, not with pride in our superiorities, but with gratitude to Him who gave them.
Maketh… differ This question refers not to that difference by which one man is an heir of heaven and another is an heir of hell; for that stupendous difference is made by God to result largely from ourselves. For if even our salvation be of God, certainly our damnation is of ourselves. It refers to those temporal advantages by which one set was proudly swelling over the other.
Didst not receive Piety does not require us to be unconscious of wealth, or talent, or power. It indeed breathes into us a sweetly humbled gratitude to God, who gives, and an earnest desire to use them with sweeter zest to his glory.
Glory Implying a self-inflation as repugnant to manly character as it is to Christian piety.
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