Exposition on 1 Corinthians 1.1–3.23
Latin text: Souter, TS 9.2 (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 1
1.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:128
Paulus. Quod nomen praeponit in epistulis, auctoritatis esse noscendiun [eat.]. Vocatus apostolus Iesu Christi. In uia ut esset apostolus Christi Iesu. Per uoluntatem dei. Uoluntate dei uocatur quisque uocatur ad fidem, [sed] sua sponte, et suo arbitrio credit[ur], sicut ait in Actibus [Apostolorum] : 'non fui incredulus caelesti uisioni.’ Et Sosthenes,
“Paul.” He puts this name first in his letters, as the one by which his authority is to be recognized. “Called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.” On the way, so that he might be an apostle of Christ Jesus. “By the will of God.” Everyone who is called to faith is called by the will of God; of his own accord and by his own choice he believes, as he says in the Acts: “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” “And Sosthenes,”
1 Cor 1:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 26:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul is called by God's will, yet believes by his own choice.
- The words after “recognized” are garbled in the digital text (“noscendiun [eat.]”); translated by sense.
- Souter brackets “sed” (“but”), the ending that would make “credit” passive, and “Apostolorum”; they are left out. Pelagius's point that faith is a matter of one's own choice is translated as written.
- Acts 26:19.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): esBet → esset; Sost\K\enes → Sosthenes.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:128; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:128–129
ecclesiae dei frater, quae est Corinthi . Frater, inquit, non apostolus, hunc autem idcirco secum scribentem inducit, quia ex ipsis doctor erat, et pro his ualde sollicitus. Sanctificatis in Christo Iesu. Per baptismum sanctis effectis. Uocatis sanctis . Ostendit qui sint ecclesia [dei], sancti scilicet et inmaculati, quia ecclesia neque maculam habet neque rugam, et ideo his scripsit qui integram athuc seruabant, non qui perdiderant sanctitatem. nam istos honorat litteris, illos auctoritate condemnat. Cum omnibus qui inuocant nomen domini nostri Iesu Christi. Proprie sacerdotum est inuocare deum, quibus dicitur: 'sic benedicetis filios Istrahel, inuocantes nomen meum super illos’; et psalmista dicit: 'et Samubel inter eos qui inuocant nomen eius,’ quern sacerdotem fuisse ilia res probat, quia et sacerdoti successit et hostias offerebat, de quo etiam secundum historiam dictum est: 'suscitabo mihi sacerdotem fidelem,’ qui, quamuis [non sit] ex genere Aaron, tamen de tribu Leui esse in Paralip[p]omenon legitur, quia ipse hunc constituit qui et ilium: ita enim Aaron elegit ut alios post ea elegendi non amiserit potestatem. In omni loco ipsorum et nostro . Quia sacerdotes et suo et apostolorum loco funguntur, propter quod etiam ' ecclesiarum apostoli nominantur.
“the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth.” “Brother,” he says, not “apostle”; he brings him in as writing with him because he was a teacher from among them and very anxious for them. “To those sanctified in Christ Jesus.” Made holy through baptism. “Called saints.” He shows who the church is: the holy and spotless, because the church has neither spot nor wrinkle; and so he wrote to those who were still keeping their holiness whole, not to those who had lost it: for he honours the one group with a letter, the others he condemns with his authority. “With all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” To call on God belongs properly to priests, to whom it is said: “So you shall bless the sons of Israel, calling my name upon them”; and the psalmist says: “and Samuel among those who call on his name.” That Samuel was a priest is proved by the fact that he both succeeded a priest and offered sacrifices; of him it was also said, according to the history: “I will raise up for myself a faithful priest.” Although he was [not] of the family of Aaron, he is read in Chronicles to be of the tribe of Levi, because the one who appointed Aaron appointed him too: for he chose Aaron in such a way that he did not lose the power of choosing others after him. “In every place, theirs and ours.” Because priests act both in their own place and in that of the apostles, for which reason they are also called “apostles of the churches.”
1 Cor 1:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 5:27 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 6:27 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ps 99:6 (98:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 2:35 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Chr 6:28 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 8:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The church is the holy; calling on God belongs properly to priests, who stand in the apostles' place.
- Souter brackets “dei” after “church”, the doubled p of “Paralippomenon”, and “non sit” (“was not”); “not” is kept in brackets because the sentence contradicts itself without it.
- Num 6:23, 27; Ps 99:6 (98:6 LXX); 1 Sam 2:35; Samuel's Levite descent in 1 Chr 6:27–28; “apostles of the churches” from 2 Cor 8:23; Eph 5:27.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; line-end hyphen; stray digit (quotation mark misread)): Sanctificaiis → Sanctificatis; macidam → maculam; dici- tur → dicitur; bostias → hostias; apostoli 5 nominantur → apostoli nominantur.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:128–129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129
Gratia uobis et pax a deo patre nostro et domino Iesu Christo . Pax gratiam seruat, quam quidam habere nolebant.
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Peace preserves grace, which certain people did not want to have.
1 Cor 1:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Peace preserves grace.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129
Gratias ago deo meo semper pro uobis in gratia dei , quae data est mihi in Christo Iesu . Primum solito [more] laudando prouocat ad profectum, et dicit se quidem gaudere de eorum scientia, sed scire illos debere quia uera sapientia 'non inflatur ’ neque dissentit.
“I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God which has been given to me in Christ Jesus.” First, as usual, he urges them on to progress by praising them, and says that he rejoices at their knowledge, but that they ought to know that true wisdom “is not puffed up” and does not quarrel.
1 Cor 1:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 13:4 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul praises the Corinthians' knowledge to spur them on, reminding them that true wisdom is humble.
- Pelagius's text reads “given to me”, not “to you”. Souter brackets “more” (“custom”); left out.
- 1 Cor 13:4.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): Gratms → Gratias; dissent it → dissentit.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129
Qu[on]ia[m] in omnibus locupletati estis in ipso . In omnibus uirtutibus [per sapientiam], quae amicos dei et prophetas constituit. In omni uerbo et in omni scientia . Id est, tarn Noui quam Ueteris Testamenti.
“Because in everything you have been enriched in him.” In all the virtues, which make men friends of God and prophets. “In all speech and in all knowledge.” That is, of the New as much as of the Old Testament.
1 Cor 1:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians are rich in virtues and in knowledge of both Testaments.
- Souter brackets “per sapientiam” (“through wisdom”); left out. The phrase echoes Wis 7:27.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 7:27 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129–130
Sicut testimonium Christi confirmatum est in uobis . Testimonium quo ait: 'omnis scriba doctus in regno caelorum similis est homini patri familias, qui profert de thesauro suo noua et uetera.’
“Just as the testimony of Christ has been confirmed in you.” The testimony in which he says: “Every scribe learned in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”
1 Cor 1:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 13:52 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's testimony is the saying about the scribe who brings out new and old.
- Matt 13:52.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:129–130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130
Ita ut nihil uobis desit , in [n]ulla gratia . Unde ait Salomon: ‘uenerunt mihi omnia bona pariter cum ilia,’ id est, cum sapientia. Expectantes reuelationem domini nostri Iesu Christi. Ille uere expectat aduentum Christi, qui in omnibus praeparatus est: reuelatio autem dicitur domini aduentus, quia modo a nobis absconditus est.
“So that you lack nothing,” in any grace. Hence Solomon says: “All good things came to me together with her,” that is, with wisdom. “Waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.” He truly waits for the coming of Christ who is prepared in all things; and the Lord's coming is called a revelation because he is now hidden from us.
1 Cor 1:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Wisdom brings every grace; he truly awaits Christ who is ready in all things.
- Wis 7:11, cited as Solomon.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 7:11 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130
Qui et confirmauit uos usque ad finem sine crimine , in die aduentus domini nostri Iesu Christi . Per doctrinam, sicut ait Dauid: ‘confirma me in uerbis tuis,5 et iterum: ‘pax multa diligentibus legem tuam, et non est illis scandalum.’
“Who has also confirmed you to the end without reproach, on the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Through teaching, as David says: “Confirm me in your words,” and again: “Great peace have those who love your law, and they have no stumbling block.”
1 Cor 1:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 119:28 (118:28 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 119:165 (118:165 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God confirms believers through teaching.
- Ps 119:28 and 119:165 (118:28, 165 LXX).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip and line-end hyphen): con- Jirmauit → confirmauit; Jinem → finem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130
Fidelis deus per quern uocati estis in sodetate[m] jilii eius domini nostri Iesu Christi . Fidelis deus qui confirmauit, quia uos in societate[m] filii sui uocauit, quam societatem Iohannes exponit dicens: ‘quoniam deus lux [est], et tenebrae in eo non sunt ullae: si dixerimus quia societatem habemus [cum eo, et] in tenebris ambulamus, mentimur,’ etPaulus ait: ‘si commortui sumus, et conuiuemus; si sustinemus, et conregnabimus.’ hie locus contra Arrianos facit, qui in hoc minorem esse filium uolunt, quo per ipsum omnia facta referuntur, cum hoc et[iam] in patrem cadat, per quern in societate[m] filii eius credentes uocati dicuntur. [Hucusque cum laude praefatio.]
“God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son our Lord Jesus Christ.” God, who confirmed you, is faithful, because he called you into the fellowship of his Son; this fellowship John explains, saying: “For God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship and walk in darkness, we lie”; and Paul says: “If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him.” This passage tells against the Arians, who hold the Son to be lesser on the ground that all things are said to have been made through him, since this applies to the Father too, through whom believers are said to be called into the fellowship of his Son.
1 Cor 1:9 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 John 1:5–6 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Tim 2:11–12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “Through whom” is said of the Father too, which refutes the Arian argument from “through him.”
- Souter brackets “est”, “cum eo, et”, “-iam”, and a closing sentence (“Up to here the preface with praise”); left out.
- 1 John 1:5–6; 2 Tim 2:11–12.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131
Obsecro autem uos, fratres . Hinc iam causam contra dissensionem adgreditur. Per nomen domini nostri Iesu Christi. In quo nomine saluati estis et signa fieri conspexistis. Vt id ipsum dicatis omnes. Ut unum sentiatis atque dicatis. Et non sint in uobis scismata . Scismata semper ex contentione nascuntur. Sitis autem perfecti in eodem sensu et in eadem sententia. Si unum sentiatis et proferatis, tunc uere poteritis esse perfecti.
“Now I beseech you, brothers.” From here he takes up his case against dissension. “By the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In which name you were saved and saw signs performed. “That you all say the same thing.” That you think and say one thing. “And that there be no schisms among you.” Schisms are always born of contention. “But that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.” If you think and speak one thing, then you will truly be able to be perfect.
1 Cor 1:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul begins his case against dissension: unity of mind makes them perfect.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131
Indicatum est enim mihi de uobis, fratres \mei\ ab his qui sunt C[h]loes, quod contentiones inter uos sint. Quaeriturquo modo apostolus crediderit aliquit de absentibus, cum scriptum sit: ‘non credes auditui uano,’ et iterum: ‘quae uiderint oculi tui loquere,’ et cetera, sed hanc gratiam habebat ut nosset absens quid in singulis ecclesiis ageretur, sicut dicit ad Colossensis: ‘Et si corpore absens sum, sed spiritu praesens, gaudens et uidens ordinem uestrum,’ et reliqua. quia ergo sciebat Corinthios ita agere ut audiebat, non credidit sine causa, quasi de absentibus, quorum conuersatione[m] in spiritu [per]probabat.
“For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by those who are of Chloe, that there are quarrels among you.” It is asked how the apostle believed something about people who were absent, when it is written: “You shall not accept an empty report,” and again: “What your eyes have seen, speak,” and so on. But he had this grace, that while absent he knew what was being done in each church, as he says to the Colossians: “For though I am absent in body, yet I am present in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order,” and the rest. Since, then, he knew that the Corinthians were acting just as he heard, he did not believe without cause, as one would about absent people; he was examining their conduct in the spirit.
1 Cor 1:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 23:1 (quotation, medium confidence) · Prov 25:7 (allusion, low confidence) · Col 2:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul believed the report because he had the gift of knowing absent churches in the spirit.
- Exod 23:1; the second saying resembles Prov 25:7–8 (LXX/Vulgate wording; identification uncertain); Col 2:5.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): [perjprobabat → [per]probabat.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131–132
Dico autem hoc , quoniam singuli ex uobis dicunt : Ego quidem sum Pauli , ego autem Apollo , ego uero Cephae. Sub nomine apostolorum pseudo-apostolos tangit, qui eos per sapientiam circumuenerant mundi, [ut] unus quisque eius se diceret esse cuius doctrinam elegisset, quia d[i]uersa docebant. si ergo ne[c] de ueris apostolis hoc dici permittit, quanto magis de falsis non licebit ! Ego autem Christi. [Pauci dicebant quod omnes debuerant profiteri.]
“Now I say this, because each of you says: I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas.” Under the names of the apostles he touches the false apostles, who had got round them by the wisdom of the world, so that each said he belonged to the one whose teaching he had chosen, because they taught different things. If, then, he does not allow this to be said even of the true apostles, how much less will it be permitted of false ones! “And I of Christ.”
1 Cor 1:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul names apostles to rebuke the factions formed around false apostles.
- Souter brackets “ut”, a letter of “diuersa” and “nec”, and a closing comment (“Few said what all ought to have professed”); left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:131–132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132
Diuisus est Christus? Diui[di]tur corpus cum membra dissentiunt. Numquit Paulus cruci fixus est pro uobis, aut in nomine Pauli baptizati estis? Potest ita dici his qui, relicto Christi exemplo, sanctos Ueteris Testamenti in solis diuitiis cupiunt imitari. numquit Abraham cruci fixus est pro uobis, aut in nomine lob baptizati' estis? et illut domini [est], ubi docemur non quaerere quid alii discipulo iubeatur, dicentis Petro: ‘quid ad te? tu me sequere.’
“Is Christ divided?” The body is divided when the members disagree. “Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Paul?” This can be said to those who abandon Christ's example and want to imitate the saints of the Old Testament in their riches alone: was Abraham crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Job? And there is the Lord's saying, where we are taught not to ask what is commanded to another disciple, when he says to Peter: “What is that to you? Follow me.”
1 Cor 1:13 (quotation, high confidence) · John 21:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's body is divided by dissension; the same argument rebukes those who copy only the riches of Old Testament saints.
- John 21:22.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Christies → Christus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132
Gratias ago deo quod neminem uestrum baptizaui nisi Crispum et Gaium ,
“I give thanks to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,”
1 Cor 1:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 1:14.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132
ne quis dicat quod in nomine meo baptizaui:
“lest anyone should say that I baptized in my name;”
1 Cor 1:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 1:15.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132
baptizaui autem et Stephanae domum; ceterum nescio si quern [alium] [ uestrum ] baptizaui . Quod ita contigit ut [illos] paucos uestrum baptizarem, [ne quis me putaret in meo nomine baptizasse 4 nisi Crispum et Gaium/] qui se non dicunt in meo nomine baptizatos[, et 4 Stephanae domum/ id est, to tarn domum].
“and I baptized also the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not know whether I baptized anyone.” It happened in such a way that I baptized few of you, who do not say they were baptized in my name.
1 Cor 1:16 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul baptized few, and none claim to be baptized in his name.
- Souter brackets “alium”, “uestrum”, “illos”, and two longer phrases repeating the lemma (“lest anyone should think I baptized in my name, except Crispus and Gaius” and “and the household of Stephanas, that is, the whole household”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray line number): et 1 5 Stephanae → et Stephanae; nesdo → nescio.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132–133
Non enim misit me Christus baptizare, sed euangelizare. Non usurpauit minora facere, qui poterat [officia] implere maiora ; sicut hodie episcopus et suum, si uoluerit, et diaconi poterit implere ministerium. Non in sapientia uerbi . In qua uos gloriamini. Ut non euacuetur crux Christi. Euacuant enim uim crucis, qui aures declamation[is delecta£ion]e permulcent.
“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel.” He who could fulfil greater duties did not claim the lesser for himself; just as today a bishop can, if he wishes, fulfil both his own ministry and that of a deacon. “Not in wisdom of speech.” In which you glory. “Lest the cross of Christ be emptied.” For they empty the power of the cross who soothe the ears with declamation.
1 Cor 1:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul left baptizing to others; rhetorical display empties the cross of its power.
- Souter brackets “officia” and part of “declamatione” (“the delight of declamation”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Euaeuant → Euacuant.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:132–133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:133
Uerbum enim crucis pereuntibus quidem stul[ti]tia est. Praedicatio crucis non intellegentibus uirtutem dei stultitia uidetur dei filium dicere crucifixum: fideles autem [spiritu] intellegunt dei [esse] uirtutem, qua mors uicta est et diabolus superatus est. His autem qui salui fiunt, [id est nobis,] uirtus dei est. Fides enim eorum eos saluos facit.
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.” To those who do not understand the power of God, the preaching of the cross seems foolishness, to say that the Son of God was crucified; but the faithful understand it to be the power of God, by which death was conquered and the devil overcome. “But to those who are being saved it is the power of God.” For their faith saves them.
1 Cor 1:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The cross, foolish to unbelievers, is to the faithful God's power over death and the devil.
- Souter brackets “spiritu”, “esse”, and “id est nobis” in the lemma; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:133–134
Scriptum est enim: Perdam sapientiam sapientium. Hoc in aduentu saluatoris adserit adimpletum: id est, ad nihilum redigam. Etintellectum prudentium reprobabo. Eligendo piscatores, artem retoricam et philosophicam reprobauit. quaeritur plane unde sit haec sapientia quam reprobat deus: scriptum est enim quod omnis sapientia a domino deo sit, id est, de bona natura ducit exordium, hoc enim habet sensus humanus, ut quocumque eum tetenderis, consequatur et paulatim meditando proficiat. inde est quod multi inlitterati poemata componunt tam exquisita, quae uiri eruditissimi admirentur. hunc ergo sensum, quern deus ad se ex creaturis cognoscendum et suam uoluntatem inquirendam dederat, illi ad inquirenda superflua et curiosa uerterunt. similiter et [de] diuitiis ac fortitudine et de omnibus quibus male utimur possumus aestimare.
“For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.” He asserts that this was fulfilled at the Saviour's coming: that is, “I will bring to nothing.” “And the understanding of the prudent I will reject.” By choosing fishermen he rejected the art of rhetoric and philosophy. It is plainly asked where this wisdom comes from which God rejects; for it is written that all wisdom is from the Lord God, that is, it takes its beginning from a good nature. For human sense has this property, that wherever you direct it, it attains its object and advances little by little through meditation; hence many unlettered people compose poems so exquisite that the most learned men admire them. This sense, then, which God had given for knowing him from created things and for searching out his will, they turned to searching out superfluous and curious things. We can judge similarly about riches and strength and all the things that we misuse.
1 Cor 1:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 29:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 1:20 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Worldly wisdom is a good natural gift misdirected to vain ends.
- Isa 29:14; “all wisdom is from the Lord God” is Sir 1:1. The appeal to “a good nature” is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line-end hyphen; split word): Per dam → Perdam; uolun- tatem → uoluntatem.
Extrabiblical texts: Sir 1:1 (Sirach [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:133–134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134
JJbi sapiens? ubi scriba? Id est, doctor. TJbi conquisitor huius saeculi? Qui adquirit sapientiam saecularem, uel [qui] cum aliis de rebus obscuris inquirit. Nonne stultam fecit deus sapientiam huius mundi?
“Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe?” That is, the teacher. “Where is the debater of this age?” He who acquires worldly wisdom, or inquires with others into obscure matters. “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
1 Cor 1:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The scribe is the teacher; the debater seeks worldly wisdom.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134
nam quia in dei sapientia[m\ non cognouit [hie] mundus per sapientiam deum. Factura mundi dei sapientia est fabricata, in qua per sapientiam naturalem, quae ad hoc data et creata fuerat, debuit cognosci ipse qui fecerat, sed quoniam non agnouerunt homines, alia illis medicina succurritur. Placuit deo per stultitiam praedicationis saluos facere credentes. Non quo uere stultitia sit praedicatio crucis, sed quia aput illos ita haberetur.
“For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom.” The fabric of the world was made by the wisdom of God; in it, through natural wisdom, which had been given and created for this purpose, its maker ought to have been known; but since people did not recognize him, another remedy is brought to their help. “It pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.” Not that the preaching of the cross is truly foolishness, but because it was so regarded among them.
1 Cor 1:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Natural wisdom should have known the Creator from creation; when it failed, God sent preaching as a remedy.
- Souter brackets “hic” (“this”) in the lemma; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): facer e → facere.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.22Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134
Quoniam ludaei signa petunt . Iudaei ex consuetudine prophetarum signa petunt, quae etiam uidentes credere noluerunt. Et Greci sapientiam quaerunt. Artis dialecticae et humanae sapientiae rationem.
“For the Jews ask for signs.” The Jews, from the custom of the prophets, ask for signs, which even when they saw them they would not believe. “And the Greeks seek wisdom.” The reasoning of the art of dialectic and of human wisdom.
1 Cor 1:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Jews seek signs, Greeks the reasoning of philosophy.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.23Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134–135
Nos autem praedicamus Christum cruci fixum. Multum suam doctrinam ab illorum sensu discrepare demonstrat. ludaeis quidem scandalum. Scandalizantur si audiant Christum a se cruci fixum. Siue: Scandalum illis est audire Christum mori potuisse, quern illi quasi inmortalem expectant, inde est quod dicebant : 4 nos audiuimus ex lege quia Christus manet in aeternum,’ non intellegentes quia primum ilium ‘pati oportebat et sic in suam gloriam introire.5 Gentibus autem stultitiam. [Secundum mundanam sapientiam stultitia uide[re]tur deum credere cruci fixum.]
“But we preach Christ crucified.” He shows that his teaching differs greatly from their way of thinking. “To the Jews a stumbling block.” They are scandalized if they hear that Christ was crucified by them. Or: It is a stumbling block for them to hear that Christ could die, whom they await as immortal; hence they said: “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever,” not understanding that he first “had to suffer and so enter into his glory.” “And to the Gentiles foolishness.”
1 Cor 1:23 (quotation, high confidence) · John 12:34 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 24:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: A crucified Christ offends Jews who expect an undying Messiah.
- Souter brackets a closing comment (“By worldly wisdom it seemed foolishness to believe a crucified God”); left out. The remark about the Jews is translated as written.
- John 12:34; Luke 24:26.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:134–135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.24Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135
Ipsis uero [ uocatis ] Iudaeis atque Graecis Christum dei uirtutem et dei sapientiam. Ipsi Iudaei et gentes, cum crediderint, intellegunt uirtutem dei esse, quae deuicta morte hominem reuocauit ad uitam, et sapientiam, quae nos a dominatione diaboli liberauit, quod ante per incredulitatem intellegere non ualebant.
“But to those very Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” Jews and Gentiles themselves, once they have believed, understand that he is the power of God, which conquered death and called man back to life, and the wisdom which freed us from the devil's domination; this they could not understand before, through unbelief.
1 Cor 1:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Believers of both peoples see Christ as God's power over death and his wisdom.
- Souter brackets “uocatis” (“called”) in the lemma; left out.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.25Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135
Quia quod stultum est dei sapientius est hominibus . Quod stultum putatur dei, omnem humanam sapientiam antecedit, quia sapientia sua liberari non poterant qui per crucis mysterium sunt saluati. Et quod infirmum est dei fortius est hominibus. Mortem, quam nec gigantes euadere potuerunt, cruci fixi infirmitas superauit.
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than men.” What is thought the foolishness of God surpasses all human wisdom, because those who have been saved through the mystery of the cross could not be freed by their own wisdom. “And the weakness of God is stronger than men.” The weakness of the crucified overcame death, which not even the giants could escape.
1 Cor 1:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 6:4 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The cross saves those whom their own wisdom could not free.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): hoyninibus → hominibus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.26Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135
Uidete enim uocationem [ uestram ], fratres . Exemplum accepit ex his qui crediderant, ut ostendat quia non prodest gloriatio carn[al]is ad fidem, sed magis obest, dum superbia sapientiae et nobilitatis inflati homines, dei se sapientiae subicere noluerunt. Quia non multi sapientes secundum carnem , non multi fortes , non multi nobiles. Hoc contra illos a[g]it oblique, qui se legis peritos et fortiores apostolis et nobiliores ex sacerdotali stirpe descendere iactitabant.
“For consider the calling, brothers.” He takes an example from those who had believed, to show that boasting in the flesh does not help toward faith but rather hinders it, since men puffed up with pride in wisdom and nobility refused to submit themselves to God's wisdom. “For not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.” He acts obliquely against those who boasted that they were experts in the law, stronger than the apostles, and nobler as descended from priestly stock.
1 Cor 1:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Few wise or noble believed, because pride hindered them; Paul aims at boastful teachers.
- Souter brackets “uestram” (“your”) and letters of “carnalis”; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.27Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135
Sed quae stulta sunt mundi elegit deus, ut confundat sapientes , et infirma mundi elegit deus , ut confundat fortia,
“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,”
1 Cor 1:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 1:27.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.28Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135–136
et ignobilia [huius] mundi et contem[p]tibilia elegit deus. Quia, dum in semet ipsis non confidunt, celerius crediderunt. semper enim sapientium et diuitum et fortium gloria increpatur, sicut ait propheta: non glorietur sapiens in sua sapientia, neque fortis in fortitudine sua, neque diues in diuitiis suis \sed [et] ipse dominus quod per prophetam dixerat, in se [ad] nostrum compleui[t] exemplum. nascendo enim de matre paupere diuitias reprobauit: dum autem litteras non discit, refutat sapientiam saecularem: cum uero traditus non resistit, sed patienter sustinet crucem, in humana fortitudine [nos] prohibet gloriari. humil[i]ent se ergo deo huius modi, si uolunt et ipsi cum ceteris liberari. [Et] ea quae non sunt, ut [ea] quae sunt , destrueret . Quae non sunt sapientia fortia nobilia [elegit], ut [ea] quae sunt talia dissiparet.
“and the ignoble and contemptible things of the world God chose.” Because, not trusting in themselves, they believed more quickly. For the glory of the wise, the rich and the strong is always rebuked, as the prophet says: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the rich man in his riches.” But the Lord himself fulfilled in himself, as an example for us, what he had said through the prophet: by being born of a poor mother he rejected riches; by not learning letters he refutes worldly wisdom; and when he was handed over, he did not resist but patiently endured the cross, and so forbids us to glory in human strength. Let such people, then, humble themselves before God, if they too wish to be set free with the rest. “Things that are not, to destroy the things that are.” Things that are not wise, strong or noble, to scatter the things that are such.
1 Cor 1:28 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 9:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's poverty, lack of letters and patient death rebuke the glory of the wise, rich and strong.
- Souter brackets “huius”, “et”, “ad”, “nos”, “elegit” and “ea”; left out (“nos” is implied by the sense).
- Jer 9:23.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): hums modi → huius modi; nobiUa → nobilia.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:135–136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.29Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136
Ut non glorietur omnis caro in conspectu dei. Omnis caro, non spiritus, quia carnalis est ista gloriatio.
“So that no flesh may glory in the sight of God.” All flesh, not spirit, because this boasting is carnal.
1 Cor 1:29 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Boasting belongs to the flesh.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.30Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136
Ex ipso autem uos estis in Christo Iesu. Si ergo ex ipso estis, nolite ea quae ille reprobat admirari. Qui factus est nobis sapientia a deo et iustitia et sanctificatio . Nobis factus est, sibi semper fuit, ut scilicet nos faceret sapientes et iustos et sanctos. Et redemptio. [Redemptio] nostrae salutis.
“But from him you are in Christ Jesus.” If, then, you are from him, do not admire the things that he rejects. “Who has been made for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification.” He was made this for us; for himself he always was, so that he might make us wise and righteous and holy. “And redemption.” Of our salvation.
1 Cor 1:30 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ became wisdom and righteousness for us, to make us wise and righteous.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): Quif actus → Qui factus.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.31Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136
Ut quern ad modum scriptum est: Qui gloriatur , in domino glorietur . Non in semet ipso aut in superius conprehensis.
“So that, as it is written: Let him who glories glory in the Lord.” Not in himself, or in the things listed above.
1 Cor 1:31 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 9:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Glory belongs only in the Lord.
- Jer 9:24.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 1.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/1-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 2
2.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136–137
Et ego ueniens ad uos , fratres, ueni. Quia ostenderat non illos [debere] humanam sapientiam [et eloquentiam] admirari, suo quoque hoc exemplo confirmat, eo quod ipse non per humanam sapientiam praedicasset. Non cum eminentia sermonis aut sapientiae praedicans uobis mysterium [dei]. Nolui pomposum eloquentiae iactare sermonem in praedicatione diuina.
“And I, when I came to you, brothers, came.” Since he had shown that they ought not to admire human wisdom, he confirms this by his own example too, in that he himself had not preached through human wisdom. “Not with eminence of speech or of wisdom, preaching to you the mystery.” I did not want to flaunt pompous, eloquent speech in divine preaching.
1 Cor 2:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's own preaching avoided human eloquence.
- Souter brackets “debere”, “et eloquentiam” and “dei”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): eloquentiaeiactaresermoneminpraedicationediuina → eloquentiae iactare sermonem in praedicatione diuina.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:136–137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137
Neque enim iudicaui scire me aliquit intra uos nisi Christum Iesum. Id est, non sum gloriatus in aliquo nisi in Christo. Et hunc cruci fixum. Quod stultum aput homines esse uidetur.
“For I did not judge myself to know anything among you except Christ Jesus.” That is, I have not gloried in anything except in Christ. “And him crucified.” Which seems foolish among men.
1 Cor 2:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul gloried only in Christ crucified.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137
Et ego in infirmitate [et timore ] et tremore multo fui aput uos. Neque enim alio modo deum conuenerat praedicari, non [in] iactantia neque gloria carnali.
“And I was among you in weakness and in much trembling.” For it was not fitting that God should be preached in any other way, not with boasting or carnal glory.
1 Cor 2:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God is fittingly preached in weakness.
- Souter brackets “et timore” (“and fear”) in the lemma and “in”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): tremor e → tremore.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137
Et sermo meus et praedicatio mea. [‘Non in sapientia hominum, sed in uirtute dei.’] quia dialectici erant Corinthii, noluit aput illos disputatione uti, ne hoc quoque illis noua aliqua philosophia uideretur, sed magis illis uirtutes et miracula demonstrauit. Non in persuasibilibus [ humanae ] sapientiae uerbis , sed in ostensione spiritus et uirtutis [dei\. Quia ars rhetorica habet colores persuasorios in una quaque materia.
“And my speech and my preaching.” Because the Corinthians were dialecticians, he did not want to use disputation among them, lest this too seem to them some new philosophy; instead he showed them mighty works and miracles. “Not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” For the art of rhetoric has persuasive colours for every subject.
1 Cor 2:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul used miracles, not dialectic, with the Corinthians.
- Souter brackets the rest of the lemma (“not in the wisdom of men but in the power of God”), “humanae” and “dei”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): per suasibilibus → persuasibilibus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137
Ut fides uestra non sit in sapientia hominum , sed in uirtute dei [si£]. Sapientia hominis temporalis ad breue prodest, uirtus autem dei, ut aeterna, dat sine fine profectum.
“That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” Man's wisdom, being temporal, profits for a short time; but the power of God, being eternal, gives progress without end.
1 Cor 2:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Human wisdom is brief; God's power gives endless progress.
- Souter brackets “sit”; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137–138
Sapientiam [autem] loquimur apud perfectos. Ne putetis et nos sapientiam non habere, habemus diuinam, sed uos earn tunc capere minime poteratis, quia iam credentibus aperitur. Sapientiam autem non huius saeculi neque principum huius saeculi. Siue regum, siue philosophorum qui in hoc saeculo primatum sapientiae uidentur tenere. Qui destruuntur. [Qui] cum sapientia sua per nostrum euangelium destruuntur.
“We speak wisdom among the perfect.” Do not think that we have no wisdom; we have divine wisdom, but you were then quite unable to grasp it, because it is opened to those who already believe. “But wisdom not of this age nor of the rulers of this age.” Either of kings or of philosophers, who seem to hold the first place in wisdom in this age. “Who are being destroyed.” Who are being destroyed together with their wisdom by our gospel.
1 Cor 2:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul has a divine wisdom, opened only to believers.
- Souter brackets “autem” and “Qui”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): prindpum → principum.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:137–138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138
Sed loquimur dei sapientiam in mysterio [dei]. In euangelio, quod continet natiuitatem Christi, passionem, et cetera. Quae abscondita est. [Ab incredulis.] Quam praedestinauit deus ante saecula. Siue in praes[ci]entia, siue in lege, ante tempora: ‘multi’ enim ‘prophetae cupierunt uidere et non uiderunt.’ In gloriam nostram. Qui credimus [Christo].
“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.” In the gospel, which contains Christ's birth, passion, and the rest. “Which is hidden.” “Which God predestined before the ages.” Either in foreknowledge or in the law, before the times: for “many prophets desired to see, and did not see.” “For our glory.” We who believe.
1 Cor 2:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 13:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God's hidden wisdom is the gospel, foreordained and foreshadowed.
- Souter brackets “dei”, a comment “From unbelievers” after “hidden”, and “Christo”; left out.
- Matt 13:17.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138
Quam nemo principum huius saeculi cognouit. Pilatus, Caiphas, et ceteri, quorum etiam ignorantia damnatur, quia non debuerant ignorare. Si enim cognouissent , numquam dominum maiestatis cruci Jixissent. Hoc loco ad defensionem peruersi dogmatis duae haereses abutuntur, Apollinaris scilicet et Arrii, una, ut perfectam adsumpti hominis naturam destruat, alia, ut dei uerbum adserat esse passibile[m], neque ilia intellegens maiestatis dominum etiam adsumptum hominem dictum, neque ista sciens non deitatis, sed humanitatis passibilem esse naturam.
“Which none of the rulers of this age knew.” Pilate, Caiaphas and the rest, whose ignorance too is condemned, because they ought not to have been ignorant. “For if they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of majesty.” Two heresies misuse this passage in defence of a perverse doctrine, that of Apollinaris and that of Arius: the one to destroy the complete nature of the man assumed, the other to assert that the Word of God is capable of suffering. The first does not understand that the assumed man too is called the Lord of majesty; the second does not know that it is the nature not of the Godhead but of the humanity that is capable of suffering.
1 Cor 2:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Against Apollinaris and Arius: the assumed man is called Lord of majesty, and only the humanity suffered.
- Pelagius's Christology (“the assumed man”) is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): passibilefm] → passibile[m].
Topics: Christology, Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138–139
Sed sicut scriptum est: Quod oculus non uidit , nee auris audiuit, nec in cor hominis ascendit, quae praeparauit deus diligentibus se. Memoratorum scilicet principum mens haec uidere non potuit, quia credere noluerunt. quidam sane dicunt: oculus non uidit uirginem peperisse, nec auris audiuit: ‘tunc iusti sicut sol fulgebunt: qui habet,’ inquit, ‘ aures audiendi, audiat,’ nec in cor hominis ascendit homines coheredes Christi futuros.
“But as it is written: What eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it gone up into the heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love him.” The minds of the rulers just mentioned could not see these things, because they would not believe. Some indeed say: the eye has not seen a virgin give birth; nor has the ear heard: “Then the righteous will shine like the sun; he who has ears to hear, let him hear”; nor has it gone up into the heart of man that men would be fellow heirs with Christ.
1 Cor 2:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 64:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 13:43 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:17 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Unbelieving rulers could not see God's gifts; some apply the verse to the virgin birth, the glory of the righteous and co-heirship with Christ.
- Isa 64:4 (cited loosely); Matt 13:43; Rom 8:17.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:138–139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139
Nobis autem reuelauit deus per spiritum suam. Nobis, qui per fidem meruimus spiritum dei accipere, qui eius nobis uoluntatem ostendit. Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur , etiam altitudinem dei. Etiam quae in secreto dei consilio conquiescunt.
“But to us God has revealed it through his Spirit.” To us, who through faith have been found worthy to receive the Spirit of God, who shows us his will. “For the Spirit searches all things, even the depth of God.” Even the things that rest in God's secret counsel.
1 Cor 2:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Spirit, received by faith, reveals God's will and counsel.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray digit): Etiam 5 quae → Etiam quae.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139
Quis enim hominum scit quae hominis sunty [quoniam in ipso sunty] nisi spiritus qui in ipso est ? Quae cogitationes uersentur in homine. Sic et quae in deo sunt [nemo] cognouit , nisi spiritus dei .
“For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit that is in him?” What thoughts turn over in a man. “So also [no one] knows the things that are in God, except the Spirit of God.”
1 Cor 2:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Only God's Spirit knows God's thoughts.
- Souter brackets “quoniam in ipso sunt” (left out) and “nemo” (“no one”), kept in brackets because the sentence needs it.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139
nos autem non spiritum huius mundi accepimus , sed spiritum qui ex deo est . Quicumque mundana sapit, non spiritum dei uidetur habere, sed mundi. Ut sciamus quae a deo donata sunt nobis. Ut sciamus quanta nobis a deo collata sint per Christi aduentum.
“But we have not received the spirit of this world, but the Spirit which is from God.” Whoever savours worldly things seems to have not the Spirit of God but that of the world. “That we may know the things given us by God.” That we may know how much has been bestowed on us by God through Christ's coming.
1 Cor 2:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Worldly minds have the world's spirit, not God's.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139
Quae et loquimur , [non in doctis] humanae sapientiae uerbisy sed doctis spiritu. Quae etiam uobis adnuntiamus, non a philosophis, uel [a] grammaticis, sed a dei spiritu eruditi. Spiritalibus spiritalia comparantes. Illis ea dicentes, qui possunt audire: non enim possunt nisi a sibi cognatis et similibus conprehendi.
“Which things we also speak, [not in words taught] by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit.” Which we also announce to you, instructed not by philosophers or grammarians but by the Spirit of God. “Comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” Speaking them to those who are able to hear: for they cannot be grasped except by those akin and like to them.
1 Cor 2:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul speaks what the Spirit taught him to those able to receive it.
- Souter brackets “non in doctis” and “a”; the first is kept in brackets because the sentence needs it.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word; stray digit): Quae 5 etiam → Quae etiam; com parantes → comparantes.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139–140
Animalis autem homo non percipit ea quae sunt spiritus dei. Qui spiritum dei non habet, animalis est, qui[a] animalium ritu uersatur, qui putat nihil esse post mortem, et ideo, ut animal, uentri se libidinique committit, ut aeterna morte periturus. Stultitia enim illi[s] est , et non potest scire , qu[on]ia[m ] spiritaliter diiudicatur . Stultitia [enim] illi uidetur primo deus natus et passus a mortuis [re]surrexisse, secundo contemnere propria bona, alteram praebere maxillam, et cetera his similia Christi mandata.
“But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God.” He who does not have the Spirit of God is “natural” (animalis), because he lives in the manner of animals; he thinks there is nothing after death, and so, like an animal, gives himself to his belly and lust, to perish by eternal death. “For it is foolishness to him, and he cannot know it, because it is judged spiritually.” It seems foolishness to him, first, that God was born, suffered, and rose from the dead; second, to despise one's own goods, to offer the other cheek, and the other commands of Christ like these.
1 Cor 2:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:39 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The “natural” man lives like an animal and finds Christ's birth, passion and commands foolish.
- Pelagius plays on animalis (“natural”, literally “of the soul”) and animal.
- Souter brackets “enim” and some letters; left out. Matt 5:39.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray line number): Qui 20 spiritum → Qui spiritum; spirited iter → spiritaliter.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:139–140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140
Spiritalis autem \di]iudicat omnia: ipse autem a nemine [ di]iudicatur . Iudicat uana esse in quibus carnales homines delectantur, et ipse ita [se] agit ut a nemine iudicetur. Siue: Omnia spiritalis discernit et intellegit, et sensus illius ab homine non intellegitur animali.
“But the spiritual man judges all things, and he himself is judged by no one.” He judges vain the things in which carnal people delight, and he himself acts so that he is judged by no one. Or: The spiritual man discerns and understands all things, and his mind is not understood by the natural man.
1 Cor 2:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The spiritual man discerns all and gives no ground for judgment.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): liana → uana.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140
Quis enim cognouit sensum domini , qui instruat eum? Sensum domini, qui est in uiris spiritalibus, sine spiritu dei nemo cognouit. Nos autem sensum domini habemus. Qui spiritum sanctum accepimus.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?” No one without the Spirit of God has known the mind of the Lord, which is in spiritual men. “But we have the mind of the Lord.” We who have received the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 2:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 40:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Lord's mind is known through the Holy Spirit.
- Isa 40:13.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 2.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/2-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 3
3.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140
Et ego , fratres , non potui uobis loqui quasi spiritalibus, sed quasi carnalibus. Modo timens ne putent hoc solum habere sensum domini, quod ipsi ut paruoli audierant, “non,” inquit, “in me sensus domini defecit, sed uobis uirtus defuit audiendi.” Quasi paruolis in Christo. Non [in] aetate [carnali], sed in Christo.
“And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to carnal.” Now, fearing that they would think the mind of the Lord consisted only in what they had heard as little children, he says: “The mind of the Lord did not fail in me; rather, you lacked the strength to hear.” “As to little children in Christ.” Not in age, but in Christ.
1 Cor 3:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The fault lay in the Corinthians' capacity, not in Paul's teaching.
- Souter brackets “in” and “carnali” (“bodily”); left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140–141
Lac uobis potum dedi , non escam: nondum enim poteratis. sed nec adhuc potestis. Hoc et beatus [Petrus] ait: ‘deponentes igitur omnem malitiam et simulationem, tamquam modo geniti infantes rationa[bi]le et sine dolo lac concupiscite, ut in eo crescatis in salute[m]., Si ergo adhuc illi paruuli sunt qui omnem malitiam abiecerunt, [et] quia nondum sunt in uirtute perfecti, quid de illis censendum est quibus omnis malitia dominatur? Adhuc enim estis carnales.
“I gave you milk to drink, not solid food: for you were not yet able. And even now you are not able.” Blessed [Peter] too says this: “Putting away therefore all malice and pretence, like newborn infants desire the rational and guileless milk, that by it you may grow to salvation.” If, then, those are still little children who have cast away all malice, because they are not yet perfect in virtue, what is to be thought of those whom every malice rules? “For you are still carnal.”
1 Cor 3:2 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 2:1–2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Even those free of malice are still infants; much more those ruled by it.
- Souter brackets “Petrus” (kept in brackets for sense) and “et”.
- 1 Pet 2:1–2.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Atliuc → Adhuc.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:140–141; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141
nam cum si[n]t inter uos aemulationes et contentiones et dissensiones , nonne carnales estis? Ecce de quibus uitiis carnales iudicantur, quae non proprie per carnem fiunt, sed de carnali sensu [talia] descendunt! Et secundum hominem ambulatis? Qui nihil amplius habet quam ceteri homines, secundum hominem dicitur ambulare[, id est, qui solum diligit diligentem et cetera]; sed in hoc loco ob defensionem hominum singulorum homines [qid] appellantur.
“For since there are among you jealousy, strife and dissensions, are you not carnal?” See for what vices people are judged carnal: vices which are not done properly through the flesh, but come down from a carnal mind! “And do you not walk according to man?” He who has nothing more than other men is said to walk according to man; but in this place they are called “men” because of their defence of individual men.
1 Cor 3:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Strife makes people carnal, though it comes from the mind, not the flesh.
- Souter brackets “talia” and the clause “that is, who loves only the one who loves him, and so on”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): hunt → fiunt.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141
Cum enim dicat quis: ‘ Ego [ quidem ] sum Pauli alius autem: ‘[Et] ego Apollo,’ nonne homines estis? Uult nos plus esse quam homines. Quid igitur est Apollo? quid [est] uero Paulus? ministri eius cui cre[di]distis. Si nos nihil sumus, quos ministros ipse constituit, quanto magis illi qui in carnalibus gloriantur! Et uni cuique , sicut dominus dedit.
“For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not men?” He wants us to be more than men. [v. 5] “What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Ministers of him in whom you believed.” If we are nothing, whom he himself appointed ministers, how much less those who glory in carnal things! “And to each as the Lord gave.”
1 Cor 3:4–5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul and Apollos are only ministers; much less should men glory in carnal things.
- The numeral of verse 5 was unreadable; the verse begins at [v. 5].
- Souter brackets “quidem”, “Et” and “est”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray digit): Apollo? 6 quid → Apollo? quid.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141–142
ego plantaui , Apollo [in]rigauit, [sed] deus incrementum dedit. Hoc ipsum non ex nobis, sed dei donum est, ut per manus meas signa fierent, quae uos excitarent ad fidem, et Apollo sua uos doctrina firmaret; quia, sicut planta sine aqua, sic fides sine doctrina marcescit. si ergo et plantatio et fons dei est, quid nobis adscribitis, quasi aliquit nostra uirtute fecerimus?
“I planted, Apollos watered, God gave the increase.” This very thing is not from us but is the gift of God: that signs were done by my hands which roused you to faith, and that Apollos strengthened you by his teaching; for as a plant withers without water, so does faith without teaching. If, then, both the planting and the spring are God's, why do you ascribe anything to us, as if we had done anything by our own power?
1 Cor 3:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's signs and Apollos's teaching were both God's gift.
- Souter brackets “in-” and “sed”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (running head and page number): et PELAGI EXPOSmO [ill 7- Apollo → et Apollo.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:141–142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142
Itaque neque qui plantat est aliquit , neque qui \in]rigat, sed qui dat incrementum deus.
“So neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”
1 Cor 3:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 3:7.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142
qui autem plantat et qui [in]rigat unum sunt: unus quisque autem suam mercedem accipiet secundum suum laborem. Nisi enim deus incrementum dederit, sine causa laboramus. nos mercennarii sumus in alieno agro, alienis utimur ferramentis: nihil habemus proprium nisi mercedem nostri laboris. [‘propriam mercedem accipiet secundum suum laborem.’ Contra Iouinianum, qui unam omnium in regno dei putat esse mercedem.]
“But he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labour.” For unless God gives the increase, we labour in vain. We are hired labourers in another's field and use another's tools: we have nothing of our own except the wages of our labour.
1 Cor 3:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 127:1 (126:1 LXX) (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Ministers are hired hands; only their wages are their own.
- Souter brackets a closing comment (“‘will receive his own reward according to his own labour’: against Jovinian, who thinks there is one reward for all in God's kingdom”); left out.
- Echo of Ps 127:1 (126:1 LXX).
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142
Dei [enim] sumus adiutores : dei [agri] cultura est[is], dei aedijicatio est[is\ Non in potentia, sed in uerbo adiuuamus [uirtutem] coli dei agrum [et extrui templum [dei]. dei agri cultura. Non nostra.]
“For we are God's helpers: it is God's cultivation, God's building.” We help, not by power but by the word, so that God's field may be cultivated.
1 Cor 3:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Teachers help God's field by the word.
- Souter brackets “enim”, “agri”, the endings that make “est” into “estis” (“you are”), “uirtutem”, and the rest of the comment (“and the temple of God built. God's cultivation: not ours”); left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142
Secundum gratiam dei , quae data est mihi. Non secundum meam uirtutem. [Siue:] Ponendi fundamenti gratiam accepi, ut ibi praedicarem ubi Christus non fuerat nominatus. Ut sapiens architectus fundamentum posui . Non potest imperitus architectus ponere fundamentum. Alter super aedificat. Alius doctor instruit supra fidem quam ego fundaui. Unus quisque autem uideat quo modo super aedificet. Sollicitus quam fortia et recta parietum latera consurgant.
“According to the grace of God which was given to me.” Not according to my own power. I received the grace of laying the foundation, so as to preach where Christ had not been named. “Like a wise master builder I laid the foundation.” An unskilled builder cannot lay a foundation. “Another builds on it.” Another teacher builds on the faith which I founded. “But let each one see how he builds on it.” Anxious how strong and straight the sides of the walls rise.
1 Cor 3:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 15:20 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul laid the foundation by grace; other teachers must build carefully.
- Souter brackets “Siue” (“Or”); left out.
- Rom 15:20.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): aedijic at → aedificat.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143
Fundamentum autem aliut nemo potest ponere praeter id quod positum est, quod est Christus [/esws]. Non est alius Christus quem possit uobis aliquis praedicare, praeter Iesum cui fide firmissima credidistis; hoc solum agitur, ne per doctorum neglegentiam obnoxii esse incipiatis gehennae.
“For no one can lay another foundation than that which has been laid, which is Christ.” There is no other Christ whom anyone could preach to you except Jesus, in whom you have believed with the firmest faith; the only concern is that you not begin to be liable to Gehenna through the negligence of teachers.
1 Cor 3:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ is the only foundation; careless teachers endanger the hearers.
- Souter brackets “Iesus” in the lemma; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143
Si quis autem superaedifica[ueri\t supra fundamentum istud. Huius artis est qui supra aedificat, licet minor in opere sit, cuius ille est qui posuit fundamentum. non ergo unus quisque homo super fidem suam aedificat, sed quilibet doctor, quia nec parietes per se aliquando possunt erigi, nisi fuerint ab operatore constructi. Aurum [et] argentum , lapides praetiosos, ligna,faenum , stipulam. In ecclesia tria genera sunt bonorum: est bonum, [et] melius et optimum, quod autem primo aurum posuit, ut sermo melius texeretur. Siue: Ad fortitudinem, non ad speciem comparauit. quia argentum fortius est auro, ideo meliori ponitur loco, tria sunt e contrario genera malorum: [est] malum, peius, [et] pessimum, quae lignis faeno et stipulae comparantur.
“Now if anyone builds on this foundation.” He who builds on top belongs to the same craft as the one who laid the foundation, though he be lesser in the work. So it is not each man who builds on his own faith, but any teacher, because walls can never be raised by themselves unless they are put up by a workman. “Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw.” In the church there are three kinds of good: good, better and best; he put gold first so that the sentence might be better woven. Or: He compared them with regard to strength, not appearance; since silver is stronger than gold, it is put in the better place. On the other side there are three kinds of evil: bad, worse and worst, which are compared to wood, hay and straw.
1 Cor 3:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Teachers build on the faith; the materials stand for degrees of good and evil.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): pnmo → primo.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143–144
Qui fecerit hoc opus manifestus erit: dies enim domini manifestabit , qu[on]ia[m] in igne reuelabitur, et unius cuiusque quale opus sit ignis probabit . Aurum et argentum non solum non arde[bu]nt, sed per ignem splendidiora radiabunt: ligna uero et cetera cremabuntur. Siue: Examinationem iudicii igni uoluit comparare, iuxta consuetudinem scripturarum.
“Each one's work will become manifest; for the day of the Lord will show it, because it will be revealed in fire, and the fire will test what sort each one's work is.” Gold and silver will not only not burn, but will shine more brightly through the fire; but wood and the rest will be burned up. Or: He wanted to compare the examination at the judgment to fire, according to the custom of the Scriptures.
1 Cor 3:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The fire of judgment will test each teacher's work.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; line-end hyphen): manifestahit → manifestabit; splendi- diora → splendidiora.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:143–144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144
Si cuius[que\ opus manserit quod super aedificau[er]it, mercedem accipiet:
“If anyone's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward;”
1 Cor 3:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 3:14.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144
si cuius opus arserity iacturam patietur . Si quis neglegenter aut uerbo docuerit aut exemplo, perdet laborem suum, quia opus aridum infirmumque perfecit. Ipse autem saluus erit. In propria iustitia. Sic tamen quasi per ignem . Quod si ille non nisi per ignem saluus erit, qui iustus ex proprio est, quia neglegenter aedificauit [discipulos, quid de illis fiet, qui nec sermone aedificant] et insuper scandalizant exemplo? [et quod dixit ‘ quasi,’ habet ueritatem, sicut ibi: ‘quasi unigeniti a patre.’]
“if anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss.” If anyone teaches carelessly, by word or by example, he will lose his labour, because he produced dry and weak work. “But he himself will be saved.” In his own righteousness. “Yet so as through fire.” But if he who is righteous in his own right will be saved only through fire because he built carelessly, [what will become of those who do not build up their disciples even by word,] and besides give offence by their example?
1 Cor 3:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: A careless teacher is saved only as through fire; worse awaits those who scandalize.
- Souter brackets “discipulos” and the clause in brackets (kept for sense), and a closing comment on “as” (“‘as’ expresses truth, as in ‘as of the only-begotten of the Father’”), left out.
- “Righteous in his own right” (iustus ex proprio) is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): patieiur → patietur.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144
Nescitis quia templum dei estis? Nescitis cuius sitis templum? Et spiritus dei habitat in uobis? Siue in singulis, siue in uniuersa ecclesia.
“Do you not know that you are God's temple?” Do you not know whose temple you are? “And that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Either in individuals or in the whole church.
1 Cor 3:16 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God's Spirit dwells in each believer and in the church.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144
Si quis [autem] templum dei ;uiolauerit, disperdet eum deus: templum enim dei sanctum est, quod estis uos. Siue: Suum corpus peccando. Siue : Ecclesiam ad prauam doctrinam seducendo, uel certe exemplo proprio destruendo. solent hunc locum Nouatiani opponere ad paenitentiam [excludendam]; quibus respondendum est: utquid illis hoc ipsum scribitur, si iam spem ueniae non habebant?
“If anyone violates the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which you are.” Either: his own body, by sinning. Or: the church, by leading it astray into wrong teaching, or at least by destroying it through his own example. The Novatianists are accustomed to cite this passage against repentance; they must be answered: why is this very thing written to these people, if they no longer had any hope of pardon?
1 Cor 3:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Violating God's temple is sin or misleading the church; the verse does not exclude repentance.
- Souter brackets “autem” and “excludendam” (“to exclude”); left out. The Novatianists denied readmission to those who sinned gravely after baptism.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray mark): propriof → proprio; paSSnitentiam → paenitentiam.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Souter's Latin (1926; our OCR of the VU Amsterdam scan); no public-domain English exists, so the translation was re-read against the Latin.
3.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144–145
Nemo se seducat. Propria uel aliena adulatione deceptus. Si quis uidetur sapiens esse inter uos in hoc saeculo , stultus fiat , ut sit sapiens. Hie proprie mundi increpat sapientes, quibus humana prudentia non permittebat sentire diuina. Aliter : Si quis [se] ad reddendam uicem iniuriae, si eadem fecerit, putet esse sapientem, stultus fiat: in hoc enim saeculo stultus est qui euangelica uoluerit implere praecepta: qui enim percutienti alteram praebet maxillam, uoluntate stultus est, non natura.
“Let no one deceive himself.” Deceived by his own flattery or another's. “If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” Here he properly rebukes the wise of the world, whose human prudence did not let them perceive divine things. Otherwise: if anyone thinks himself wise in paying back an injury by doing the same, let him become a fool: for in this age he is a fool who is willing to fulfil the commands of the gospel; he who offers the other cheek to the one who strikes him is a fool by will, not by nature.
1 Cor 3:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:39 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The gospel's command not to retaliate looks foolish to the world.
- Matt 5:39.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:144–145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145
Sapientia enim huius mundi stultitia est aput deum . Nihil stultius quam ut uelit se, qui non potest, uindicare, et [qui] deo suam non reseruat iniuriam, et ita de contumelia uindictam aput deum perdi[di]t et de patientia mercedem. Scriptum est enim: Adprehendam sapientes in astutia eorum. Ad effugiendam manum dei nulla sufiragatur astutia.
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” Nothing is more foolish than for a man who cannot do it to want to avenge himself, instead of reserving his injury for God; and so with God he loses both vengeance for the insult and the reward for patience. “For it is written: I will catch the wise in their craftiness.” No craftiness avails to escape the hand of God.
1 Cor 3:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Job 5:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 12:19 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Self-vengeance forfeits both God's vengeance and the reward of patience.
- Job 5:13; Rom 12:19.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145
Et iterum: Dominus nouit cogitationes sapientium quam uan[a]e sunt. Nihil utilitatis conferunt ad salutem.
“And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.” They contribute nothing useful to salvation.
1 Cor 3:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 94:11 (93:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Worldly thoughts do not help toward salvation.
- Ps 94:11 (93:11 LXX).
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145
Itaque nemo glorietur in homine. In falsis scilicet apostolis [et] humana tantum sapientibus, cum neque in nobis quidem, sed in eo cuius et ipsi sumus- sit gloriandum. Omnia enim uestra sunt ,
“So let no one glory in man.” That is, in the false apostles and those wise only in a human way, since one must glory not even in us, but in him whose we ourselves are. “For all things are yours,”
1 Cor 3:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Glory belongs to God, not to teachers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): homie → homine; sapientibs → sapientibus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.22Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145
[siue Paulus ] siue Apollo siue Cephas. Nos uestri [ministri] sumus, uos autem [pleba' solius] Christi. Siue mundus siue uita siue mors, siue praesentia siue futura: omnia [ enim\ uestra sunt,
“or Apollos, or Cephas.” We are yours, but you are Christ's. “Whether the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are yours,”
1 Cor 3:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Teachers belong to the church, and the church to Christ.
- Souter brackets “siue Paulus” (“whether Paul”), “ministri”, “plebs solius” and “enim”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Apolb → Apollo; praesenpia → praesentia.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145–146
uos autem Christi'. Omnia creata sunt propter sanctos qui, cum nihil habeant, possident cuncta. si autem uolumus , possumus haec ad libertatem referre arbitrii, ut quod uelint elegant, siue mortem siue uitam. Christus autem dei. Sic est Christus dei, sicut alibi ‘deus’ dicitur ‘Christi,’ et hoc si de diuinitate uelis intellegi. ceterum hie de adsumpti hominis forma tractatur, secundum quam et dicitur unctus.
“and you are Christ's.” All things were created for the sake of the saints, who, though they have nothing, possess all things. But if we wish, we can refer these words to freedom of choice: that they may choose what they will, whether death or life. “And Christ is God's.” Christ is God's in the way that elsewhere God is said to be Christ's, and this if you wish it understood of the divinity; but here the subject is the form of the man assumed, according to which he is also called the anointed one.
1 Cor 3:23 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 6:10 (allusion, high confidence) · Deut 30:19 (allusion, low confidence) · Eph 1:17 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: All things serve the saints, who may choose life or death; “Christ is God's” refers to his humanity.
- The reading of the verse in terms of free choice is Pelagius's own and is translated as written.
- 2 Cor 6:10; Deut 30:19. “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Eph 1:17) is probably the passage meant.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word; words run together): adlibertatemreferre → ad libertatem referre; ‘dens’ → ‘deus’; ho minis → hominis.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 3.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:145–146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/3-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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