not at all clear why the Corinthians would have questions to raise (except perhaps purely theoretical ones). Third, the central chapter of the three under scrutiny emphasizes love so strongly that it is not hard to believe that the Corinthian church was singularly lacking in this commodity, again doubtless owing to factionalism. Third, the dominant focus of these chapters is the conduct of the church as it is assembled together. That is equally true, of course, of chapter 11; but the observation