1 CORINTHIANS 4:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.”
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you — the accusation: arrogance (physiōo, puffed up) has filled some Corinthians because Paul's physical presence is delayed. Absence is misread as weakness or irrelevance. Yet Paul's coming ('I am coming to you') will test whether arrogant boasting was justified.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 4:18
“Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming unto you.” For there he glances both at them and at certain others, casting down their highmindedness: since the love of preeminence is in fault, when men abuse the absence of their teacher for their own self-will. For when he addresses himself unto the people, observe how he does it by way of appeal to their sense of shame; when unto the originators of the mischief, his manner is more vehement. Thus unto the former he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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