Excerpt from The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Vol. 1 of 2: With Critical Notes and Dissertations Yet further, it has been attempted to follow out, not only the train of argument and the construction of sentences, but the image presented by each separate word. N ever was there a truer description of any style than that which Luther gives of the style of the Apostle: The words of St. Paul are not dead words they are living creatures, and have hands and feet. Each word has, as it were, a law, a life, a force of its own. It has grown up under the shade of some ad jacent argument, or it has been tinged with the colour ing of its Hebrew original, or of some neighbouring pas sage in the version of the Seventy, or has been animated with a vigour before unknown, through the Christian and Apostolical use to which it is now for the first time applied. And it propagates itself through new sen tenoes, words, paragraphs, chapters grown out of it as out of some prolific seed of the natural world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Vol. 2 of 2: With Critical Notes and Dissertations The First Epistle had been received, and by those for whom it had been mainly intended, entirely appreciated. The lax and licentious party who, whether from misun derstanding or perverting the Apostle's teaching, had used his name as a watchword for their excesses, were levelled to the dust. Some complaints there were of the Apostle's change of purpose in not coming to them direct from Ephesus5; some cause still remained for fear lest the intercourse with the heathen should be too unrestrainedg; but on the whole, the submission of the mass of the Corinthian Church to the Apostle's direc tions was complete. They received Titus with open arms7; and in the matter of the incestuous marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Commentary on St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, Vol. 1 IN publishing this new Commentary, I do not feel altogether free from anxiety. The welcome given to its elder brothers encourages me, it is true; but the apostolic book explained in these pages is so practical in its nature, and consequently touches on so many existing religious phenomena, that it is difficult to avoid drawing certain parallels which may injure the objectivity of the work. Then the commentator's responsibility increases the more the results which he obtains are fitted to exercise a direct influence on the solution of questions which are now occupying the Church. And so I am specially constrained to ask God to avert every hurtful consequence that might flow from errors I may have committed in interpreting this important book, and to say to my readers, like the apostle himself, but in a sense slightly different from his Judge yourselves what I say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.