a brotherhood meeting. It is addressed to Timothy as a pastor, not to the men as members of the Church.—1 Cor. 3:9a is farfetched when a Christian congregation is addressed as “laborers together with God.” These laborers in St. Paul’s word are the apostles and pastors. The congregation is “God’s husbandry and God’s building,” as the second half of the verse shows. Many more flagrant cases might be catalogued. 5. Texts that are opposites to the case or occasion always tend to jar the feelings of the