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One of the most exciting of Paul’s letters, 1 Corinthians offers a vantage point from which modern readers can reflect on diverseness in Christian Churches today. In First Corinthians, Raymond Collins explores that vantage point as well as the challenge Paul posed to the people of his time—and continues to pose in ours—to allow the gospel message to engage them in their daily lives. Paul...

19, 31). From the rhetorical point of view Paul has divided the question. Verse 18 serves as a rhetorical partitio, which takes up the themes of wisdom and power from v. 17. Wisdom is the focus of vv. 18–25 with their nine uses of soph- (wise) and five uses of mōr- (foolish). Power is the focus of vv. 26–31 with their commentary on the social situation of the Corinthians. Ethnicity serves as the social framework of the first unit, social division as the background of the second. Ethnicity and social
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