Completed by Simon Browne. Corinth was a principal city of Greece, in that particular division of it which was called Achaia. It was situated on the isthmus (or neck of land) that joined Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece, on the southern side, and had two ports adjoining, one at the bottom of the…

We have here the apostle’s preface to his whole epistle, in which we may take notice, I. Of the inscription, in which, according to the custom of writing letters then, the name of the person by whom it was written and the persons to whom it was written are both inserted. 1.

Here the apostle enters on his subject. I. He extorts them to unity and brotherly love, and reproves them for their divisions. He had received an account from some that wished them well of some unhappy differences among them.

Here the apostle gives an account of his ministry among them. He thanks God he had baptized but a few among them, Crispus, who had been a ruler of a synagogue at Corinth , Gaius, and the household of Stephanas, besides whom, he says, he did not remember that he had baptized any.

We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words , the enticing words of man’s wisdom , the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have…