The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the CorinthiansDods, Marcus
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The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians
Dods, Marcus
Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Commentaries
The folly of partisanship and sectarianism is finally exhibited in the
words "Let no man glory in men. For all things are yours, whether
Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas." The man who held to Paul and would learn
nothing from Apollos or Peter was defrauding himself of his rights. It
has been the weakness of Christians in all ages, and never more than
in our own, to see good in only one aspect of truth and listen to no
form of teaching but one. The Broad Churchman despises the
traditionalist; the Evangelical gathers up his skirts at the approach
of a Broad Churchman. Calvinist and Arminian stand at daggers drawn.
Each limits himself to his own fortress, which he thinks he can
defend, and starves himself on siege rations while the fields wave
white with grain outside. The eye is constructed to sweep round a wide
range of vision; but men put on blinkers, and decline even to look at
anything which does not lie directly in the line of sight. We know
that to confine ourselves to one form of food induces poverty of blood
and disease, and yet we fancy a healthy spiritual life can be
maintained only by confining ourselves to one form of doctrine and one
way of looking at universal truth. To the Evangelical who shrinks with
horror from liberal teaching, and to the advanced thinker who turns
with contempt from the Evangelical, Paul would say, Ye do yourselves a
wrong by listening to one form of the truth only; every teacher who
declares what he himself lives on has something to teach you; to
despise or neglect any form of Christian teaching is so far to
impoverish yourselves. "All things are yours," not this teacher or
that, in whom you glory, but all teachers of Christ.
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