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4. o vy),1 are ye not) For the Spirit does not endure party- spirit among men.
5. T/c ; who ?) He returns to what he began with. — bidxovoi, ministers) a lowly expression and on that account appropriate here. — hi uv, by whom), not in wdiom. Pelagius correctly ob- serves on this passage, If we, whom He himself has constituted ministers, are nothing, how much more those, who glory in carnal things ? — zxdarui, to every man) i.e. every man as well as they. — 6 Kupiog, the Lord) The correlative is, hidzovot, ministers. — shuxsv, has given) in various ways and degrees ; see the following verse.
6. ’ 'Etpvrsvffa, — eworusw, I planted — he watered) Acts xviii. 1, xix. 1. Afterwards with the same view, he speaks of the founda- tion and what is reared upon it ; of a father, and instructors [ch. iv. 15]. — r}v%avev, gave the increase) ver. 10, at the beginning; Acts xviii. 27, at the end.
7. 'O (pvrzvuv, 6 nor/^wv) lie that planteth, he that wateretli, as such ; or the very act of planting and watering . — 6 uv^dvwv, [God] who gives the increase) viz. : seriv is ri, something ; and therefore, because He alone is some thing,. He is all things [all in all]. Without this increase, the grain from the first moment of sowing would be like a pebble ; from the increase, when given, belief instantly springs up, ver. 5.
8. ''Ey) one ; neither of them is so much as anything. As one star in the heavens shines high above another ; but the un- scientific man does not perceive the difference in the height ; so the Apostle Paul shone far above Apollos ; but the Corin- thians did not understand this, and Paul in this passage does not instruct them much on that point ; he merely asserts the eminent superiority of Christ. — 7 hiov — 7 hiov, his oivn — his own) an appropriate repetition, and an antithesis to one. — pmdh, re- ward) something beyond salvation, ver. 14, 15. The faithful steward will receive praise, the diligent workman a reward. — xoVov, labour) not merely according to the work [done, but accord- ing to each man’s labour].
9. ©sou, of God) This wrord is solemnly repeated immediately after,2 and is emphatically put at the beginning thrice ; as in
1 'Orotv yotp, for when ) See how important a matter may be, which seems to he of no consequence. — V. g.
2 By the figure anaphora, i.e., the frequent repetition of words in the
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