Commentary

on the

First Epistle

of St. Paul

to the

Corinthians

Translated from the French by

Rev. A. Cusin, M.A.

VOLUME II (Chapter 9 through End)

Classic Commentary Library

F. Godet, th.d.

Zondervan Publishing House

grand rapids, michigan

1957

This 1957 edition of F. L. Godet’s Commentary is reprinted complete and unabridged from the 1886 edition published by T. & T. Clark.

Contents of Vol. II

BODY OF THE EPISTLE—continued

VI. The Use of Meats offered to Idols—continued

VII. The Demeanour of Women in Public Worship (chap. 11:2–16)

VIII. Disorders in the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper (chap. 11:17–34)

IX. On Spiritual Gifts (chaps. 12–14)

I. General Survey of the Domain of Spiritual Gifts (chap. 12)

1. The Limits of the Christian Pneumatical Domain (vers. 1–3)

2. The Unity of Spiritual Forces in their Diversity (vers. 4–13a)

3. The Diversity of Gifts in the Unity of the Body (vers. 13b–30)

II. The Way par excellence (chap. 13)

III. Practical Rules for the Exercise of Gifts (chap. 14)

X. The Resurrection of the Body (chap. 15)

I. With the Fact of the Resurrection of the Body Christian Salvation rises or falls (vers. 1–34)

II. The Mode of the Resurrection of the Body (vers. 35–58)

CONCLUSION (chap. 16)

The Collection (vers. 1–4)

His Approaching Visit to Corinth (vers. 5–9)

Timothy’s Visit to Corinth.—Apollos (vers. 10–12)

Last Recommendations (vers. 13–18)

Salutations (vers. 19–24)

CONCLUSIONS

I. In regard to the Historical Result

II. In regard to Ecclesiastical Offices

III. In regard to Criticism of the Text

IV. In regard to the Epistolary Work of the Apostle

Note by the Translator

The reader will take note that the contractions used for Uncial and Cursive manuscripts respectively are Mjj. and Mnn.

It has been though better to retain these contractions, as in the French, for Majusculi and Minusculi, than to express the distinction merely to the eye by the usual MSS. and mss.

A. Cusin.

Commentary

CHAPTERS 9–16

VI

The Use of Meats offered to Idols—continued

3. The example of abnegation given by Paul (9:1–22)

It is easy, from what we have just said, to understand the link which connects the following passage with the question treated by the apostle. It is nevertheless true that the subject which he proceeds to handle receives so considerable a development, that it is difficult to resist the idea that he had special reasons for expounding it here with so many details. This supposition is confirmed by the allusions to a secret hostility against his apostleship, which occur in abundance in the first three verses of the chapter, and still more clearly by a passage in the Second Epistle, where the odious accusations of his adversaries, in regard to this disinterested conduct on the part of the apostle, are dragged to the light of day. We see, in fact, from 2 Cor. 12:11–18, that instead of admiring St. Paul’s abnegation, his enemies at Corinth turned it into a weapon against him, alleging that if he did not make his Churches maintain him, it ...