Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He proceeds to show by his own example how offences are to be avoided, and he says that he had refused to accept payment, or the maintenance due to a preacher of the Gospel, both to gain greater merit and for the sake of edification.
ii. He then (ver7) proves by six arguments (summarised on the notes to ver12) that this maintenance is due to himself and other preachers of the Gospel.
iii. He shows (ver, 20) that for the same reason he had become all things to all men, that the Corinthians might learn how each one must care for his own edification and the salvation of his neighbour.
iv. He urges them (ver24) to that same edification, pointing out that our life is a race and trial of virtue, and in them we must run and strive after better things, and after the prize, buy abstinence and bodily mortification.
