perspective of those who claimed to belong to Paul, Apollos, Cephas (see Peter) and, more generally, to Christ (1 Cor 1:12) have not been successful. The attempt to read this text as evidence for a pervasive conflict within the early church between Peter, representing the Jewish Christians, and Paul, representing the Gentiles, as first championed by F. C. Baur, has also failed (see Paul and His Interpreters). What can be said with confidence is that the root of the problem was the Corinthian addiction
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