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A Rebuke to Division
Commentators unanimously agree that Paul's thankfulness was a sharp rebuke to the Corinthians' divisive spirit. He saw it as God's providence that he had baptized so few, as this prevented people from forming factions based on who baptized them. This highlights how seriously God takes church unity and warns against creating spiritual hierarchies based on human leaders.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
18th Century
Theologian
I thank God, etc. Why Paul did not himself baptize, see 1 Corinthians 1:17.
To him it was now a subject of grateful ref…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
I thank God (ευχαριστω τω θεω). See verse 4, though uncertain if τω θεω is genuine here.
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
19th Century
Bishop
I thank God.—“I am thankful to God that it was not so.” For if he had baptized a great many, some might have said he had …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 1:11–15
19th Century
Preacher
Error: Completed but no modernized text found in DB
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
The mention of baptism leads Paul to comment that the Corinthian believers had no reason to depend on the efficacy of baptism by him as a sanctifyi…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
16th Century
Theologian
I thank my God. In these words he very sharply reproves the perversity of the Corinthians, which made it necessary for him to avoid, in a …
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 1:14
17th Century
Pastor
I thank God that I baptized none of you
The Alexandrian copy and the Syriac version read, "I thank my God"; not that…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 1:10–16
17th Century
Minister
In the great things of religion, be of one mind; and where there is not unity of belief, still let there be union of affection. Agreement in the gr…