“That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;”
For in him you have been enriched in every way — in all your speaking and in all your knowledge — the Corinthians are 'enriched' (eploutisthēte) in logos (speech/word) and gnōsis (knowledge). These twin gifts—eloquence and intellectual understanding—were precisely the currency of Corinthian pride. Paul acknowledges the gifts but will argue they have been misused to build human factions rather than God's temple.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:5
That which he exhorts others to do, saying, “ Philippians 4:6 Let your requests with thanksgiving be made known unto God,” the same also he used to do himself: teaching us to begin always from these words, and before all things to give thanks unto God. For nothing is so acceptable to God as that men should be thankful, both for themselves and for others: wherefore also he prefaces almost every Epistle with this. But the occasion for his doing so is even more urgent here than…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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