Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 9:2

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 9:2 - 9:2

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 9:2 - 9:2

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2. ἀλλά γε. In the classics these two particles are separated by another word.

σφραγίς μου τῆς ἀποστολῆς. If any Church had less right than another to question his Apostolic authority, it was the Church of Corinth, which he had founded (ch. 1Co 4:15), and on which so many spiritual gifts had been poured forth (ch. 1Co 1:5; 1Co 1:7, ch. 14). The Corinthians at least needed no other proof of the genuineness of his mission. ‘If anyone wishes to know whether I am an Apostle, I will shew him yourselves; among whom are manifest and indubitable signs and proofs of my Apostolate; first the faith of Christ, which you have received at my preaching; then many and various gifts of the Holy Ghost.’ Estius. For σφραγίς see Joh 3:33; Joh 6:27; Rom 4:11. A seal is used as the attestation of the genuineness of any document. Thus the existence of the Corinthian Church was the attestation of the genuineness of St Paul’s Apostolic authority.