1 Corinthians 1:1-8

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

1 Corinthians 1-4. The Parties in the Corinthian Church. 1 Corinthians 1:1-1 Samuel : . The epistle is sent in the joint names of Paul and Sosthenes, who may have been the ruler of the synagogue mentioned in Acts 18:17, but the name was common. He seems to have had no share in the composition of the letter. The salutation sets before the readers the holiness of their vocation and the brotherhood of the saints, both of which their conduct repudiated. In the thanksgiving which follows, the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ: our common custom is to subscribe our name to the bottom of our letters; it seems by the apostolical Epistles, that their fashion was otherwise: he elsewhere telleth us, that it was his token in every epistle, which makes some doubt, whether that to the Hebrews was wrote by him; but others think it is there concealed, for the particular spite the Jews had to him. He had the name of Saul as well as Paul, as we read, Acts 7:58; Acts 9:1; whether he... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:2

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth; unto those in Corinth who having received the doctrine of the gospel, and owned Jesus Christ as their Saviour, were united in one ecclesiastical body for the worship of God, and communion one with another. Corinth was a famous city in Achaia, (which Achaia was joined to Greece by a neck of land betwixt the Aegean and Ionian Seas), it grew the most famous mart of all Greece. Paul came thither from Athens, Acts 18:1. Crispus, the chief ruler of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:3

This is the common salutation in all Paul’s Epistles, only in one or two mercy is also added. Grace signifies free love. Peace signifies either a reconciliation with God, or brotherly love and unity each with other: See Poole on "Romans 1:7". The apostle wisheth them spiritual blessings, and the greatest spiritual blessings, grace and peace, and that not from and with men, but from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:4

Lest his former salutation should be misapprehended by them, as signifying that he thought they were without grace, he here cleareth his meaning by blessing God for that grace which they had received: but no man hath so much grace, but he is still capable of more, and stands in need of further influences; therefore, as he here blesseth God for the grace of God, which they by Jesus Christ received; so he before prayed for grace and peace for them, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:5

In every thing; in every grace and in every good gift, (for he is manifestly speaking of spiritual things), so as this general particle must not be extended to the things of this life, but restrained either to spiritual gifts, or spiritual, sanctifying habits. Thus we read of the riches of grace, Ephesians 1:7, and of the riches of Christ, Ephesians 3:8; nor is the metaphor improper, whether we consider riches as signifying plenty or abundance, or that which accommodateth a man in this life,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:6

By which knowledge and utterance the testimony of Christ, that is, the gospel, which containeth both the testimony which Christ had given of himself, and which the apostles had given concerning Christ; (the gospel is called the testimony of God, Romans 2:1; 2 Timothy 1:8;) others understand the gifts of, the Spirit (for the Spirit is one of the witnesses upon earth, 1 John 5:8); was confirmed in you; by the miraculous operations wrought by the apostles, as some think; but the way of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:7

Not that every one of them was filled with all the gifts of the blessed Spirit; but one excelled in one gift, another excelled in another, as the apostle expounds himself, 1 Corinthians 12:7,1 Corinthians 12:8; neither doth the apostle assert them perfect in their gifts, but saith that they came behind-hand, or were defective, in no gift; but were all waiting for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to judgment, of which he mindeth them, to encourage them to go on as they had began. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:8

Which Lord Jesus Christ, ( mentioned immediately before), or which God who is faithful, ( mentioned immediately after, 1 Corinthians 1:9), shall confirm your habits of grace unto the end, approving himself the finisher of your faith, (you being not wanting in your duty and endeavour): so as either you shall not fall, or at least not totally and finally, but so as you shall rise again, and appear in the day of our Lord Jesus without blame, so as he will accept you as if you had never sinned... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 1:1-10

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 1:1. Called (to be) an apostle.—Only here and in Romans 1:1. For exact force choose between, (a) one of Christ’s “called” ones, who am also, in point of fact, an apostle; and (b) called specially to this, that I might be one of Christ’s apostles [q.d. perhaps, “Though at Corinth there are some who say that I was not so called”]. Both are true; the latter here more likely. The external call and ordination of the Church (Acts 13:1-2) coinciding with, and following... read more

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