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Alan F. Johnson’s deft analysis of 1 Corinthians features an introduction that explores the social, cultural and historical background of the city and its people. Rounding out the introduction, Johnson discusses the letter’s occasion and date, authorship and purpose, and major theological themes. His passage-by-passage commentary follows, seeking to explain what the letter of 1 Corinthians means...

totally to effect the saving purposes of Christ’s gospel. The exact sense of the words that I might share in its blessings is debatable. Literally the Greek is “that I might be a partner of it.” But does Paul mean a partner in the blessings of the gospel (NIV, NRSV), a partner in the work of the gospel or a partner in the nature of the gospel, “to instantiate what the gospel is and how it operates” (Thiselton 2000:707)? I think that this latter is the correct sense. The gospel is to be proclaimed
Pages 149–150
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