To admonish (νουθετων). Literally, admonishing (present active participle of νουθετεω). See on 1 Thessalonians 5:12,14…

For though you have ten thousand instructors. Though you may have, or though you should have. It does not matter how many you have, for it…

For.—This is the reason he has a right to addre them as a father would his children. Since their conversion, they may have had man…

Paul’s seeming harshness in writing this to the Corinthians was not to “shame” (GK 1956) them but to warn them of the seriousness and perverseness …

For though you had ten thousand. He had called himself father, and now he shows that this title belongs to him uniquely and speci…

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ
Or "schoolmasters"; by whom he means the false teachers, whom, for argu…

In reproving sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn are likely to reform.

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After censuring the Corinthians for rashly judging and presumptuously despising the apostles, the Apostle now begins to correct them. He does this …