Author: glen

2 COR. i. 24. "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy." THIS Epistle much taken up with the subject of his own…

1 COR. xvii. 9. "Now we know in part." ST. PAUL is placing knowledge in contrast with love. He implies that knowledge belongs to the present in its essence; love…

1 COR. xvi. 13. "Be strong." THIS whole verse has in it the ring of the battle-field. These words of Paul are in themselves "half-battles," and send the Christian soldier…

1 COR. xv. 46. "That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual." THE method of God's working is upward progress.…

1 COR. xv. 20. "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." THESE words are the conclusion of an argument, not a…

1 COR. xv. 3, 4. "I de- livered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and…

1 COR. xii. 12. "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the mem- bers of that one body, being many, are one body: so also…

1 COR. xii. 7. "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." I. IN the gift of the Divine Spirit we have the selected,…

1 COR. xii. 1. "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant." THE original is "spiritual things," and it is the want of appreciation of spiritual things…