ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 1 v13
HOW CHRIST BECOMES DIVIDED. AMBROSIASTER: By believing different things about Christ, the people have divided him. One person thought that Christ was a mere man, another that he was only God. One says that he was foretold by the prophets, while another denies it.
Paul starts with himself, so that nobody will think that he is disparaging the status of others. If Christ died for us, how can we attribute his grace and blessing to men, thereby doing him a grave injustice? COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.12
THE QUESTION RHETORICAL. CHRYSOSTOM: Whenever Paul uses rhetorical questions, as he does here, he implies that the whole argument is absurd. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 3.5.13
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