1 CORINTHIANS 11:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice — nor do the churches of God — Paul closes the discussion by asserting apostolic and catholic practice; this is not mere opinion but the standard across all apostolic churches, and further disputation is fruitless and divisive.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:16
“But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God.” It is then contentiousness to oppose these things, and not any exercise of reason. Notwithstanding, even thus it is a measured sort of rebuke which he adopts, to fill them the more with self-reproach; which in truth rendered his saying the more severe. “For we,” says he, “have no such custom,” so as to contend and to strive and to oppose ourselves. And he stopped not even here, but…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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