Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 1:1
The Divisions in the Church Brought to Light
SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 1: Greetings to the Church. Thanksgiving for
the Grace of God. An Exhortation to Unity. Schisms Rebuked. The Sin
of Honoring Human Leaders Instead of Christ. The Preaching of the
Cross the Power of God to Salvation. Not the Worldly Wise and Proud,
but the Humble and Lowly. Converted.
Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ. Some of the
Judaizing teachers, who had visited the church at Corinth after the
departure of Paul, in order to lessen his authority, had asserted that
he was not an apostle, divinely called like the Twelve. Hence, at the
beginning, he asserts his apostleship, and refers to his divine call.
See 1 Corinthians 9:1 2Co 12:12.
Sosthenes, [our] brother. A Sosthenes, who was then the chief
ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, is named in Acts 18:17. The
Sosthenes whom Paul associated with himself in the letter must have
been well known to, and influential among, the Corinthians, and was
probably the former chief ruler, who had been converted. Apollos,
Priscilla and Aquila, all well known to the church, were at Ephesus
with Paul (1 Corinthians 16:12), but Sosthenes is chosen to appear with
him in the salutation.
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