First of all (πρωτον μεν). There is no antithesis (δευτερον δε, secondly, or επειτα δε, in the next place) expressed. This is the …

For first of all. That is, I mention this as the first thing to be rebuked.

When ye come together in the church. This mean…

For first of all.—We look in vain for the “secondly,” which, in a perfectly systematic treatise, should follow this “firs…

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members eve…

Regarding the meal that evidently preceded the communion service, the apostle condemns the conduct of the believers as harmful and degrading to the…

His reproof of the fault previously mentioned was only a mild and gentle admonition, because the Corinthians sinned in ignorance, so it was proper …

For first of all, when you come together in the church
The place where the church met together to perform divine ser…

The apostle rebukes the disorders in their partaking of the Lord's Supper. The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, are likely to m…

After rebuking the Corinthians for their error in covering—that is, because the women came to the sacred mysteries with their heads uncovered—the A…