all belonged to the same family. ‘By the name of the Lord Jesus Christ’ reminds them of the authority of the one to whom they had professed their greatest allegiance. If their Master had sworn eternal hostility against division, how could they tolerate it? After laying down this opening barrage, Paul marches up to grapple with the problem in close hand-to-hand combat. He rips away all the camouflage so the Corinthians might see the true ugliness of division and be repulsed by it. He does this by
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