Ioannis Coleti Enarratio in Primam Epistolam S. Pauli Ad Corinthios; An Exposition of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... W CHAPTER XVI. HILE travelling over various regions, and preaching Christ and His salvation to men, St. Paul kept in careful recollection his task of conveying to the needy and destitute Christians at Jerusalem, the help raised towards their maintenance by the liberality and good will of the faithful. For, partly through their wicked ill-treatment by the Jews, to whom the name of Christ was hateful, and partly through the scarcity of corn, and famine, foretold by Agabus, those disciples were suffering the extremity of want. It is probable that St. Paul never either asked anything for himself, nor accepted it, if spontaneously offered and given him; save only in case of the Macedonians, as he 2 Cor. xi. himself testifies in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. In Greece and Achaia, he declared that he would not receive anything. Not that it was unlawful for him so to do: for, 1 Cor. ix. as he writes in this First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Lord hath ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel: but that no occasion of disparagement might be afforded to the envious and malicious; and that his own work might be on all sides unimpeachable, with no occasion anywhere afforded for even the slightest scandal and offence. This integrity, and refusal to touch any recompense, St. Paul maintained also when with the Ephesians, as he himActs xx. self testifies in St. Luke. For at his last departure from 33, 34. e jjphesians, when setting out from Jerusalem, he addressed them in these words: I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. At the same time he was especially anxious that help should be given to the saints at Jer...