be divided, but united. This union was to be both in mind and in judgment (vovs and yvw/xry). The former term may refer either to the intellect or feelings. The latter in the New Testament always means judgment or opinion. When the words are united, the former is most naturally understood of feeling, a sense in which the word mind is often used by us. The unity which Paul desired was a union in faith and love. Considering the relation in which Christians stand to each oth- er as the members of Christ, dissensions among them are as in- consistent with their character, as conflict between the mem- bers of the human body.
11. Tor it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them (which are of the house) of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
This verse contains the reason of the foregoing exhortation. He urges them to union because he had heard they were di- vided. JBy those of Chloe^ whether the persons referred to were the children or domestics of Chloe is left undetermined. Chloe was a Christian woman well known to the Corinthians ; whether a member of the church in Corinth whose people had come to Ephesus where Paul was ; or an Ephesian whose family had been to Corinth, and learned the state of things there, is a matter of conjecture. All Paul wished was to as- sure the Corinthians that he had sufficient evidence of the ex- istence of contentions among them. This word (IpiScs) strifes, wranglings, explains the nature of the schisms referred to in the preceding verse. These strifes, as appears from what fol- lows, were about their religious teachers.
12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ.
This explains the nature of these contentions. In almost all the apostolic churches there were contentions between the Jewish and Gentile converts. As Paul was the apostle of the Gentiles, and Peter of the Jews, Gal. 2, 8, it is probable that the converts from among the Gentiles claimed Paul as their leader, and the Jewish converts appealed to the authority of Peter. It is plain from the contents of this and of the follow- ing epistle, that these contentions were fomented by false