The Letters to the Corinthians (Biblia.com)

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Corinth was not only one of the most flourishing commercial centers of the ancient world, but also a symbol of vile debauchery. "In this hotbed of vice," writes William Barclay, "some of the greatest work of Paul was done." The apostle wrote to the church there, partly to bolster its resistance of sin and corruption, but equally to chide and give counsel about the contentions that were tearing it...

rebuke, is not charity at all—it is pride; and pride is always cruel, for it knows no love. (6) Some may give their bodies to be burned. Possibly, Paul’s thoughts are going back to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the burning ﬁery furnace (Daniel 3). It is perhaps more likely that he is thinking of a famous monument in Athens called ‘the Indian’s Tomb’. There, an Indian had burned himself in public on a funeral pyre and had arranged to have engraved on the monument the boastful inscription: ‘Zarmano-chegas,

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