Ambrosiaster

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

1,043 passages across 16 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. 1 Corinthians 4:15
    Paul is telling the Corinthians that nobody else will ever love them the way he does.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  2. 1 Corinthians 4:16
    Paul wants them to be imitators of him in these things, so that just as he has endured many hardships from unbelievers for their salvation and is still doing so as long as he preaches the free gift of God’s grace day and night, so they too ought to remain in his faith and doctrine and not accept the evil teachings of false apostles.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  3. 1 Corinthians 4:18
    Some of the Corinthians were angry that Paul had not come to them, not because they wanted him to but because they were proud and imagined that Paul thought they were unworthy of a visit. In fact, Paul wanted to go but had more important things to do.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  4. 1 Corinthians 4:19
    Paul couches his promise to come in the will of God, because God knows more than man. If there was some advantage in Paul’s going to Corinth, God would make it known, and if he did not turn up, the Corinthians would know that the Lord had not wanted him to.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  5. 1 Corinthians 5:1
    This person was clearly deserving of death for his crime, but those who supported him were not innocent either.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  6. 1 Corinthians 5:2
    Paul humbles their pride, but in such a way that instead of making them angry he makes them willing to cooperate with him.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  7. 1 Corinthians 5:4
    The Corinthians were to eject this man not only by common consent among themselves but also in the power of Christ, whose deputy Paul was.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  8. 1 Corinthians 5:5
    If this man were not thrown out, the spirit of the church would not be saved on the day of judgment, because the source of the contamination was infecting them all.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  9. 1 Corinthians 5:6
    Just as the sin of one person contaminates many, if it is not dealt with once it is known, so also does the sin of the many who know what is happening and either do not turn away from it or pretend that they have not noticed it. Sin does not look like sin if it is not corrected or avoided by anybody.

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  10. 1 Corinthians 5:7
    The old leaven has a double meaning here. On the one hand, it refers to false teaching, just as Jesus warned his disciples to beware the leaven of the Pharisees. On the other hand, it also refers to the sin of fornication being dealt with here. Paul teaches that the passover is the sacrifice, and not the exodus, as some people think. The sacrifice comes first, and then it is possible to make the transition from the old life to the new. For this reason it is the cross that is the saving reality signified by the passover in the Old Testament.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  11. 1 Corinthians 5:8
    Just as a little leaven leavens the whole lump, an evil life corrupts the whole man. Therefore Paul wants us to avoid not only evil acts but all interest in sin, so that sincerity may cleanse our lives and truth may exclude all deception.

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  12. 1 Corinthians 5:9
    Paul tells us here that he has already written to the Corinthians once. Because they failed to take action then, he is now writing a second time.

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  13. 1 Corinthians 5:10
    Paul means that it would be better to die than to mix with fellow believers who sin like the fornicator in question, because death would put an end to it sooner rather than later.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  14. 1 Corinthians 5:11
    Note that none of this applies to relations with unbelievers.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  15. 1 Corinthians 5:12
    A bishop cannot do anything about unbelievers. But a brother who is caught doing such things he can bar not only from the sacraments but also from common intercourse with his fellows, so that when he is avoided he may feel ashamed and repent.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  16. 1 Corinthians 6:1
    The Corinthians were wrong in two ways. First, they were unfaithful, and second, they were expounding God’s laws with a show of respect but in reality attributing their authority to idols.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  17. 1 Corinthians 6:2
    The saints will judge this world because the unbelief of the world will be condemned by the example of their faith.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  18. 1 Corinthians 6:3
    Angels are to be judged by us in the same way as the world is to be judged.

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  19. 1 Corinthians 6:5
    Paul meant that they were so unmanageable and thoughtless that they might choose inexperienced brothers as judges. There must, he said, be some people in the church wise enough to judge such cases, and they should be allowed to do so. He said this, incidentally, because at that time there was no official leader in their church.

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  20. 1 Corinthians 6:7
    A Christian ought not to engage in litigation at all, but if the matter is too serious to be disregarded he should bring the case to the church, so as not to incur an immediate penalty and personal downfall.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

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