Oecumenius

In his own words on 1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  This applies to Herod and Pilate. It does not apply in the same way to the high priests and scribes, because they knew that Jesus was the Christ. They were more like the workers in the vineyard who said: "This is the heir. Let us kill him, and the vineyard will be ours.".

  PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

• 1 Corinthians 2:12

  I think that by "spirit of the world" Paul means human wisdom and learning.

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• 1 Corinthians 2:16

  The "mind of Christ" refers to the Father. Paul is saying that we have the Father of Christ in us.

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• 1 Corinthians 6:14

  Paul did not write this because of Christ's resurrection, which had already taken place, but because of ours, so that we might believe and silence our opponents.

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15

  Other sins like anger and greed come from the soul, but fornication has its roots in the flesh. Paul makes special mention of it here because it was the problem which he had to deal with at the time. Fornication is not self-evidently the worst sin of all.

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• 1 Corinthians 6:16

  A man guilty of fornication and the impurity which comes from it insults his marriage and his wife. He sins against his own body and consequently against his wife, because the two are one flesh.

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• 1 Corinthians 7:22

  Paul wants to show that slave and master are equal. We are all freedmen of Christ because he has set us free from the tyranny of Satan, and we are voluntary slaves of Christ because, having set us free, he led us into his own kingdom.

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• 1 Corinthians 7:25

  Paul is coming here to a higher wisdom, but he is hesitant to impose it directly because that might show up the inadequacy of his hearers. Therefore he sets it out as an opinion rather than as a command.

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• 1 Corinthians 7:32

  To be concerned about the things of the Lord is not anxiety but salvation. Paul has just told them that he wants them to be free of anxiety.

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• 1 Corinthians 7:37

  It is clear from this that someone who has been overcome by apparent impropriety, even if married, is not yet firmly established in the work of the Lord.

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• 1 Corinthians 10:24

  The question is not merely whether you are eating with a clear conscience. It is whether what you are doing is of benefit to your brother.

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• 1 Corinthians 11:23

  By "received" Paul means that he was taught.

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• 1 Corinthians 14:32

  If the gift is subject to the prophets, how can it not also be subject to you, so that you may keep quiet when you are meant to?

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• 1 Corinthians 15:5

  Note that he does not say "to the eleven," and neither does John (Jn 20:24), who writes that Thomas was "one of the twelve." We should probably say that either he has included Matthias with the other apostles by anticipation or else that he is still thinking of Judas, even after his betrayal and hanging.

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• 1 Corinthians 15:25

  The principalities and powers will be abolished and will be left powerless.

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• 1 Corinthians 15:27

  Paul is writing to converted Greeks, because the Greeks worshiped Zeus, who revolted against his own father in order to seize his kingdom. He was concerned lest they should imagine something similar in the case of Christ and his Father.

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• 1 Corinthians 15:28

  The things of the Son belong to God as Father, and everything which the Son can do is attributed to the Father, for he who begot him outside time is the source of the Son's power.

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• 1 Corinthians 15:44

  Christ had a spiritual body, because he had received the full presence of the Holy Spirit when the dove rested on him. So the Lord had the power of the Paraclete in his humanity in a way distinguishable from his divinity, since he was himself the Spirit.

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