preached and its authentication. Evidently it was not a matter pressed upon him by the Corinthians themselves, but in a report brought to him verbally (15:12) he saw an opportunity to develop an important aspect of his gospel, perhaps more thoroughly than he had had occasion to do before. The passage does, however, fit more coherently into the ongoing argument and concern of 1 Corinthians than is usually recognized. For in this final section Paul, as it were, turns away from the interface between