{"id":17492,"date":"2023-06-05T01:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T01:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2023-06-05T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T06:45:57","slug":"1-corinthians-chapter-3-verse-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/06\/1-corinthians-chapter-3-verse-4\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians: Chapter 3, Verse 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u201c<\/b><b>For while one saith, I am of Paul<\/b><b>, etc.]\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This shows what their envying and strife, and divisions were about, and from whence they sprung; and which serve, to strengthen the proof, and support the charge of carnality brought against them; for when one sort made a party for Paul, and set up him as their minister above all others; and said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201canother, I am of Apollos<\/b><b>,\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preferring him for his eloquence above Paul, or any other preacher, as appears from (1 Corinthians 1:12) there was a third sort for Cephas, whom they cried up as superior to the other two, or any other man; and a fourth were for Christ, and despised all ministers whatever:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201care ye not carnal<\/b><b>?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All this was a demonstration of it: they could never clear themselves from it, they must be convicted in their own consciences of it; to which the apostle appeals: the Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, \u201care ye not men?\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"17492\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor while one saith, I am of Paul, etc.]\u201d<br \/>\nThis shows what their envying and strife, and divisions were about, and from whence they sprung; and which serve, to strengthen the proof, and support the charge of carnality brought against them; for when one sort made a party for Paul, and set up him as their minister above all others; and said<br \/>\n\u201canother, I am of Apollos,\u201d<br \/>\nPreferring him for his eloquence above Paul, or any other preacher, as appears from (1 Corinthians 1:12) there was a third sort for Cephas, whom they cried up as superior to the other two, or any other man; and a fourth were for Christ, and despised all ministers whatever:<br \/>\n\u201care ye not carnal?\u201d<br \/>\nAll this was a demonstration of it: they could never clear themselves from it, they must be convicted in their own consciences of it; to which the apostle appeals: the Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, \u201care ye not men?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[1222],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-gill-3-commentary-on-first-corinthians","tag-backsliding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17493,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/17493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}