The cross was the ground of κοινωνία Χριστοῦ (ο, x. 16); baptism, signalising personal union with Him by faith, its attestation (Rom. vi. 3); to this P. ap- peals asking, 4 eis τὸ ὄνομα Παύλου ἐβαπτίσθητε; His converts will remember how Chvist’s name was then sealed upon them, and Paul’s ignored. What was true of his practice, he tacitly assumes for the other chiefs. The readers had been baptised as Christians, not Pauline, Apollonian, or Petrine Christians. Paul’s horror at the thought of baptising in his name shows how truly Christ’s was to: him “the name above every name’ (Phil. ii. 9; cf. 2 Cor. iv. 5).
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u vil. 16; Jo. οὐκ 3 οἶδα ix. 25;
"et τινα ἄλλον ἐβάπτισα |:
17ᾳ. οὗ γὰρ ” ἀπέστειλέ µε
χὶχ. 2. Vik. ο,
Rom. x.
15; Acts
xxii 21, xxvi 17; Jo. xvii 18, xx. 21; with inf, Lk. i. το, iv. 18, etc.
17b. Οὐκ ἐν *oodia "λόγου, ἵνα μὴ 7 κενωθῇ 6 *oTatpos τοῦ
w Without obj., ix. 16, xv
2; Rom. i 15, xv. 20; 2 Cor. x. 16; Gal iv. 13; Lk. iv. 18 (Isa. Ixi. 1), ix. 6, xx. 1; Acts xiv. 7;
Nahum i. 15, etc. Ph. ii 7 only.
xX ii 1, 4, 13, xii 8; Col. ii. 23, iii 16. z Gal ν. 11, vi 12, 14; Ph. iii. 18.
y ix. 15; 2 Cor. ix. 3; Rom. iv. 14;
1 BeBarrixa replaces first εβαπτισα in D*G, and second also in D*.
29 Χριστος (for Χριστος), in BG—an instance of the faulty readings that mark,
B, or BD, in company of G. ὃ B, εναγγελισασθαι.
Vv. 14-16. In fact, P. had himself baptised very few of the Cor. Heseesa
providence in this; otherwise he might:
have seemed wishful to stamp his own name upon his converts, and some colour would have been lent to the action of the Paulinists—‘ lest any one should say that you were baptised into my name”’. For βαπτίζω eis τὸ ὄνομα, cf. Matt. xxviii. το and other parls.; also βαπτίζω εἰς, κ. 2; it corresponds to πιστεύω εἰς, and has the like pregnant force. ‘The name ’’ connotes the nature and authority of the bearer, and His relationship to those who speak of Him by it. Crispus and Gaius: both Roman names (see Introd., Pp. 733); the former a cognomen (Curly), the latter an exceedingly common pre- nomen. These two were amongst Paul's earliest converts (Acts xvili. 8, Rom. xvi. 23), the former a Synagogue- tuler. On second thoughts (“he was reminded by his amanuensis,”’ Lt.; or by Steph. himself), P. remembers that he had ‘“‘ baptised the house of Stephanas”’ (see xvi. 15, and note), the first family here won to Christ. Στεφανᾶς (perhaps short for Στεφανηφόρος), like Κηφᾶς, takes the Doric gen. in -ᾱ usual with proper names in -ᾱς, whether of native or foreign origin (see Bm., p. 29).---λοιπὸν οὐκ οἶδα εἴ τινα κ.τ.λ.: P. cannot recall any other instance of baptism by his own hands at Cor.; this was a slight matter, which left no clear mark in his memory. λοιπόν (more regularly, τὸ λοιπόν), “for the rest”—in point of time (vii. 29), or number—a somewhat frequent idiom with Paul (cf. iv. 2). In οὐκ οἶδα et (haud scio an), the conjunc- tion is indir. interr., as in vii. 16.
Ver. 174 justifies Paul’s thanking God that he had baptised so few: “For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to evangelise”. The infs. (cf. ti. 1 f., ix. 16, xv. 11; Rom. xv. 17-21) axe epexe-
getical (of purpose); and pres., of con- tinued action (function). otx ... ἀλλά —no qualified, but an absolute denial that Baptism was the Apostle’s proper work. For the terms of Paul’s com- mission see Gal. i. 15 f., Eph. iii. 7-9, 1 Tim. ii. 7; also Acts ix. 15, and parls. Baptism was the necessary sequel of preaching, and P. did not suppose his commission narrower than that of the Twelve (Matt. xxviii. 19 f.); but baptis- ing might be performed vicariously, not so preaching. ‘To evangelise is to cast the net—the true apostolic work; to baptise is to gather the fish already caught and to put them into vessels” (Gd.). It never occurred to P. that a Christian minister’s essential function was to administer sacraments. The Ap. dwells on this matter so much as to suggest (Cv.) that he tacitly contrasts himself with some preachers who made a point of baptising their own converts, as though to vindicate a special interest in them; cf. the action of Peter (Acts x. 48), and of Jesus (John iy. τ f.).