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‘Ten commandments or a hundred lawyers?’ The trial of Socrates was over 400 years before Paul wrote to the Corinthians, and it was at Athens, not Corinth, but there were 500 jurors. Dio Chrysostom wrote of ‘lawyers innumerable twisting judgments’ in Corinth.
In dealing with what to do with the man guilty of incest, Paul says that Christ is our Passover lamb (note Exodus 12).
4:21. I can remember as a boy in the church when the church organist took off with some woman. Nobody knew quite what to do, and eventually nothing much was done.
4:15. Paul is writing hypothetically as the founder of the church. Note 3 John 4. That is the Christian perspective.
Ps.138:6. ‘Nothing is more self-deceitful than pride,’ writes John MacArthur.
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We live in an age where there is a mania for surveys and evaluations.
Paul has been wrestling with the Corinthians who have become divided over human teachers and wisdom.
Salvation is by free grace, a gift – Eph.2:8-9. But there is still a judgment by works – Matt.16:27. Calvin says that these verses from 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 apply to ‘ministers alone’, but there are wider principles too.
Beware the cult of personality.
John’s Gospel records seven signs that point to Jesus’ authority.
