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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven`t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren`t you my work in the Lord?
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Paul's Apostolic Credentials
Commentators explain that Paul opens this chapter with four rhetorical questions to defend his apostleship. He asserts his freedom in Christ, his title as an apostle, his essential qualification of having seen the resurrected Lord Jesus, and the undeniable evidence of his ministry—the Corinthian believers themselves.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
1 Corinthians CHAPTER 9
The apostle had, in 1 Corinthians 8:13, mentioned his willingness to deny himself if he might be the mea…
Am I not free? (Ουκ ειμ ελευθεροσ; ). Free as a Christian from Mosaic ceremonialism (cf. 9:19) as much as any Christian and yet he…
19th Century
Anglican
Am I not an apostle?—A better rendering, following the word order in the better manuscripts, is: Am I not fre…
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Paul’s reference to the spiritual freedom we have in Christ, coupled with his claim of apostleship, leads him to expand the theme of Christian free…
16th Century
Protestant
Am I not free? He confirms by facts what he had stated immediately before—that he would rather never taste flesh during his whole life tha…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Am I not an apostle? am I not free ? &c.] The Syriac, Ethiopic, and Vulgate Latin versions, put the last clause firs…
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