Transition from the defence of his mode of preaching to the subject of their divisions, vs. 1-5. The trae relation of ministers to the church as ser- vants, and not party leaders, vs. 7-23.
Heproof of the Corinthians for their dissensions about their religious teachers. Vs. 1-23.
The apostle resumes the subject of the contentions in the church of Corinth. He passes to that subject from the de- fence of his mode of preaching by a natural association. One of the objections against him was, that his preaching was too simple. He answers, he could not make it otherwise, because they were mere babes in Christ. The proof of their being in this infantile or carnal state was that strifes and divisions exist- ed among them ; one saying, I am of Paul ; and another, I am of Apollos, vs. 1-4.
As their dissensions had reference to their religious teach- ers, the apostle endeavours to coirect the evil by presenting