The love which he means is the Christ power, for no mere human love could reach the altitude of the 13th of 1st Corinthians.

"Charity,well, I suppose that is the same as love,at least it is so in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians.

I Corinthians, xv.

All this he recited to the Corinthians, who very well knew that he had never so much as seen a view of this battle painted on a wall; neither did he know anything of arms, or military machines, the method of disposing troops, or even the proper names of them.

Yet Paul with difficulty escaped from Ephesus and departed again for Greece, not however until he had written his extraordinary Epistles to the Corinthians, who had sadly departed from his teachings both in morals and doctrine, either through ignorance, or in consequence of the depravity which they had but imperfectly conquered.

In the churches women rose to give their opinions without being veiled, as if they were Greek courtesans; the Agapae, or love-feasts, had degenerated into luxurious banquets; and unchastity, the peculiar vice of the Corinthians, went unrebuked.

If so, it is very possible that the Gospel was not yet published, or barely published, when Clement of Rome wrote his Epistle to the Corinthians.

They were alert, agile little dogs, excellent for work in the country; but the extravagant Corinthians of the timethe young gamesters who patronised the prize-ring and the cock-pitdesired to have a dog who should do something more than kill rats, or unearth the fox, or bolt the otter: which accomplishments afforded no amusement to the Town.

See 1 Corinthians ix.

"Hebrews, Chapter ix., and Verse 22: 'And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.' Also, and more especially, first Corinthians, Chapter v., Verse 5: 'To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.'

THE ROCK OF AGES (Ninth Sunday after Trinity.) 1 Corinthians x. 4.

St. Paul has been speaking to the Corinthians about the Holy Communion.

In this text, St. Paul is warning the Corinthians about it.

We are like those Corinthians who came to the Lord's supper not to be made good men, but to exalt their own spiritual self-conceit; and so only ate and drank their own damnation, not discerning the Lord's body, that it was a holy body, a body of righteousness and goodness.

[GREEK: EN TOYTO NIKA] (Good Friday, 1860.) 1 Corinthians i. 23-25.

And we find that the Corinthians, even after they were converted and baptised Christians, were puzzled about this same matter.

So the Lord sent to those Corinthians the very sort of proof which they wanted, by the hand of the learned apostle, St. Paul.

Referring to the former letter which he had sent to the Corinthians, and in which he had sharply rebuked them for their wrong-doing, he says, "Though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it, though I did regret"a simple, human touch we can all understand.

When St. Paul writes to the Corinthians, "I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures," he is the spokesman of every Christian preacher and teacher, of the missionary of the twentieth century no less than of the first.

"With the implied idea of St. Paul's being then absent from the Corinthians."Kirkham's Elocution, p. 123.

Nor is this letter to the Corinthians peculiar in singling out love as the summum bonum.

ERDMAN, CHARLES R. The First epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; an exposition.

The Second epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; an exposition.

Scott, Foresman & Co. (PWH); 29Oct71; R515604. OCKENGA, HAROLD J. The comfort of God; preaching in Second Corinthians.

St. Paul has an expression in the 13th chapter of the first of the Corinthians, which, according to the outward letter, seems much to the dispraise of this faith, and to the praise of love; these are his words, "Now abideth faith, hope and love, even these three; but the chiefest of these is love."