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For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
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One Father, Many Tutors
Commentators explain that Paul contrasts his role as a spiritual "father" with the "ten thousand tutors." In the Greco-Roman world, a "pedagogue" (tutor) was often a hired guide or instructor, sometimes a slave, who supervised a child. Paul asserts his unique, foundational relationship as the one who first brought them the gospel, giving him a special authority born of deep, parental love, unlike their many subsequent teachers.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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19th Century
Anglican
For.—This is the reason he has a right to address them as a father would his children. Since their conversion, they may have had m…
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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 …
16th Century
Protestant
For though you had ten thousand. He had called himself father, and now he shows that this title belongs to him uniquely and speci…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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13th Century
Catholic
After censuring the Corinthians for rashly judging and presumptuously despising the apostles, the Apostle now begins to correct them. He does this …