8 But meat doth not commend | a flock, and eateth not of the milk us to God. For neither, if we eat, of the flock? shall we have the more: nor if we eat not, shall we have the less. 9 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumbling block to the weak. 8 Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things? For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the 10 For if a man see him that hath mouth of the ox that treadeth out the knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's corn. Doth God take care for oxen? temple; shall not his conscience,be- 10 Or doth he say this indeed for ing weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols? 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died? our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth should plough in hope: and he that thresheth, in hope to receive fruit. 11 If we have sown unto you 12 Now when you sin thus against spiritual things, is it a great matter the brethren, and wound their weak if we reap your carnal things? consciences, you sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. CHAP. IX. Running in race, &c. Am I not an AM not 1 free? apostle? Have not I seen CHRIST JESUS our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? 2 And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord: 3 My defence with them that do examine me is this. 4 Have not we power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to carry about a woman a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas have not we power to do this? 12 If others be partakers of this power over you; why not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place : and they that serve the altar, partake with the altar? 14 So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me; for it is good for me to die, rather than any man should make my glory void. 16 For if 1 preach the gospel: it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me: for wo is unto me if I preach not the gospel. 17 For if I do this thing willingly, 7 Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who I have a reward: but if against my planteth a vineyard, and eateth not will, a dispensation is committed of the fruit thereof! Who feedeth to me, Ver. 13. If meat scandalize. That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin. Ver. 5. A woman, c sister. Protestants have not fairly translated this text, by render ing it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had no wife, (Chap. vii. 7, 8.) and that he only speaks of such devout women as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation waited upon the preachers of the gospel, Ver. 16, It is no glory. That is, I have nothing to glory of. I CHAP. X. 18 What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver We are to fly from the service of idols. the gospel without charge, that! FOR I, would not have ye lathers abuse not my power in gospel. rant, brethren, that our 19 For whereas I was free as to were all under the cloud, and all all, I made myself the servant of passed through the sea. all: that I might gain the more. 20 And 1 became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. 21 To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law (whereas myself was not under the law) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ) that I might gain them that were without the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all. 23 And 1 do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof. 24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain... 25 And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. 26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air: 27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a cast-away. 2 And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea: 3 And did all eat the same spiritual food. 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ,) 5 But with the most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 6 Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolators, as some of them: as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. 10 Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are writ ten for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall. 13 Let no temptation take hold Ver. 27. I chastise, &c. What will our new sectaries say to this, with all their presumptuous security? Let them open their eyes now at least, and see that their faith, which excludes all fear, is not the faith of St. Paul. See chap. x. 12. Ver. 2. In Moses. Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea and they partook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here a spiritual food, because it was a figure of the true bread, which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculous.y brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock; because it was also a figure of Christ Ver. 11. The ends of the world.. That is, the last ages. Ver. 13. Or, no temptation hath taken hold of you, or come upon you as yet, but what is human, or incident to man. Ver. 13. Issue, or a way to escape. on you, but such as is human. And shambles, eat: asking no question God is faithful, who will not suffer for conscience sake. you to be tempted above that which you are able but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it. 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols. 15 I speak as to wise men : judge ye yourselves what I say. 26 The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. 27 If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake. 28 But if any man say : This has been sacrificed to idols; do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience sake. 16 The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the 29 Conscience, I say, not thy partaking of the body of the Lord? own, but the other's. For why is my 17 For we being many are one liberty judged by another man's bread, one body, all that partake of conscience? one bread. 18 Behold Israel according to the flesh are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? 19 What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? 20 But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils. 21 You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table 30 If I partake with thanksgiving; why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 81 Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do; do all to the glory of God. 32 Be without offence to the Jews and to the gentiles, and to the church of God: 33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many; that they may be saved. CHAP. XI. Women must have a covering over their heads. am of Christ. of the Lord, and of the table of devils. BE ye followers of me, as I also 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify. 24 Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's. 25 Whatsoever is sold in the 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God. Ver. 16. Which we bless. Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking of the body and blood of Christ, in the sacred mysteries, and becoming thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers, ver. 21, that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic sacrifice, and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils, by eating of the meats sacrificed to them. Ver. 17. One bread; or, as it may be rendered agreeably both to the Latin and Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who partake of that one bread. For tis by our communicating with Christ, and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of many grains of corn, closely united together. 4 Every man praying or prophe-sing you, that you come together sying with his head covered, dis-not for the better, but for the worse. graceth his head. 18 For first of all I hear that 5 But every woman praying or when you come together in the prophesying with her head not co-church, there are schisms among vered, disgraceth her head for it you, and in part I believe it. is all one as if she were shaven. 19 For there must be also here 6 For if a woman be not cover-sies: that they also, who are aped; let her be shorn. But if it be proved, may be made manifest a shame to a woman to be shorn among you. or made bald, let her cover her head. 7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. 9 For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man. 10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head because of the angels. 11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God. 13 You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God, uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church of God. 20 When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry, and another is drunk. 22 What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not! What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord JESUs, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, 24 And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye and eat: this is my body which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. 25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. 26 For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the 17 Now this I ordain: not prai-Lord, until he come. Ver. 10. A power. That is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the power of her husband; and this, as the apostle adds, because of the Angels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful Ver. 19. There must be heresies, by reason of the pride and perversity of man's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws good out of this evil, mani. festing by that occasion, who are the good and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable. Ver. 20. The Lord's supper. So the apostle here calls the charity feasts observed by the primitive Christians: and reprehends the abuses of the Corinthians, on these occasions: which were the more criminal, because these feasts were accompanied with the celebrating the eucharistic sacrifice and sacramént 27. Therefore whosoever shall 5 And there are diversities of mieat this bread, or drink the chalice nisteries, but the same Lord. of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. *** **29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. 30 Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. 31 But, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord; that we be not condemned with this world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come. CHAP. XII.' Of the diversity of spiritual gifts. No TOW concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 You know that, when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all. 7 And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit. 8 To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: 9 To another, faith in the same Spirit: to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit: 10 To another, the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches. 11 But all these things one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews, or gentiles, whether bond, or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink. 14 For the body also is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot should say, because 3 Wherefore I give you to un-I am not the hand, I am not of the derstand, that no man, speaking body: is it therefore not of the body? by the spirit of God, saith anathe- 16 And if the ear should say, bema to JESUS. And no man can say, cause I am not the eye, I am not of the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy the body: is it therefore not of the Ghost. body? 4 Now there are diversities of 17 If the whole body were the graces, but the same Spirit. eye: where would be the hearing? Ver. 27. Or drink. Here the Protestant testament is corrupted, by putting and drink (contrary to the original (vn) instead of or drink. Ver. 27, 29. Guilty of the body, &c. not discerning the body, &c. This demonstrates the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, even to the unworthy communicant who otherwise could not be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, or justly condemned for no? discerning the Lord's body. Ver. 28. Drink of the chalice. This is not said by way of command, but by way of allowance, viz. where and when it is agreeable to the practice and discipline of the church |