The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Volume 7: I Corinthians (Biblia.com)

The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Volume 7: I Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 7 of The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide provides verse-by-verse commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Lapide provides a synopsis for each chapter, and regularly cites Church Fathers, such as Theophylact, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Anselm, and more, in his in-depth commentary on this Pauline Epistle.

advance, does not envy them, but rejoices and is glad, as though it were its own advance, as Anselm says from S. Gregory; for truth here is opposed to iniquity. Therefore truth here is equity, uprightness, righteousness. The Greeks understand it otherwise: Charity does not rejoice, but grieves when it sees an enemy suffering anything wrongly or unjustly; and it rejoices in the truth if it sees his own given to him. Ver. 7.—Beareth all things. Like a beam which sustains an imposed weight, or rather,

Page 327

Buy this book at Logos.com