For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And he says not, For fear that you do not sup together in common; for I hear that you feast in private, and not with the poor: but what was most calculated thoroughly to shake their minds, that he set down, the name of division, which was the cause of this mischief also: and so he reminded them again of that which was said in the beginning of the Epistle, and was signified by them of the house of Chloe. 1 Corinthians 1:11 And I partly believe it.
Thus, lest they should say, But what if the accusers speak falsely? he neither says, I believe it, lest he should rather make them reckless; nor again, on the other hand, I disbelieve it, lest he should seem to reprove without cause, but, I partly believe it, says he, i.e., I believe it in a small part; making them anxious and inviting them to return to correction.
