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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

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What follows is almost a creed; but we need not suppose that it had already been formulated. Rather, this passage supplied material for the formulating of creeds. ὃ καὶ παρέλαβον. ‘Which also I received.’ Nothing is said as to the source from which he received it, or the way in which the communication was made. It is possible that he received it from Christ by special revelation; but this is even less probable than in 11:23 (see notes there). Here there is neither ἐγώ nor ἀπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου
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