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What? Was it from you that the word of God went forth? Or did it come to you alone?
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A Rebuke Against Pride
Commentators unanimously describe this verse as a sharp, rhetorical, and even sarcastic rebuke from Paul. He confronts the Corinthian church's pride in creating their own unique and disorderly worship practices. By asking if they are the source or the sole recipients of the gospel, he powerfully reminds them they have no special authority to invent rules that contradict the practice of other churches.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What? came the word of God out from you? The meaning of this is: Is the church at Corinth the mother church? Was it first establi…
19th Century
Anglican
What?—The church at Corinth had on some of these points acted at variance with the practice of the other churches, and in a manne…
(29–33a) As for regulating prophesying in church, only a limited number—not over three—should speak, lest so much be said as to cause confusion. Th…
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16th Century
Protestant
Did the word of God come out from you? This is a somewhat sharper reproof, but nothing more than was needed for beating down the haughtine…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What? came the word of God out from you ? &c.] That you must give laws to other churches, and introduce new customs …
When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families sh…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle mentions the people to whom the use of prophecy is forbidden. He does two things in this regard: first, he shows to whom the use o…
