Exposition on 1 Corinthians 9.1–10.33
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 9
9.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174
Non sum apostolus ? non sum liber? Numquid non [sum]? suam illis replicat formam, quod etiam licita contempserit, ne alii eius infirm[ar]entur exemplo. Nonne [ Christum ] lesum dominum nostrum uidi? Sicut [et] alii. Non[ne ] opus meum uos estis in domino?
“Am I not an apostle? Am I not free?” He sets before them his own pattern: that he disdained even lawful things lest others be weakened by his example. “Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?” As others did. “Are you not my work in the Lord?”
1 Cor 9:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's own renunciation of lawful things is their example.
- Souter brackets “sum” in a repeated question “Am I not?”, “Christum”, “et”, letters of “infirmentur” and of “Nonne”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line-end hyphen; words run together): sumapostolus → sum apostolus; infirm- [ar]entur → infirm[ar]entur.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174
[et] si aliis non sum apostolus , [at] tamen uobis sum . Ad quos non sum directus a domino, id est, ad Iudaeos. Nam signaculum apostolatus mei uos estis in domino . Indicium apostolatus mei est, quod per me domino credidistis, signis et uirtutibus prouocati.
“If I am not an apostle to others, yet I am to you.” To whom I was not sent by the Lord, that is, to the Jews. “For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.” The proof of my apostleship is that through me you believed in the Lord, roused by signs and mighty works.
1 Cor 9:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians' faith proves Paul's apostleship.
- Souter brackets “et” and “at”; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174–175
Mea defensio apud eos qui me interrogant, haec est. Inde apostolus esse defendor.
“My defence to those who question me is this.” From this I am defended as an apostle.
1 Cor 9:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Their conversion is Paul's defence.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line-end hyphen): interro- gant → interrogant.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:174–175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
Numquid non habemus potestatem manducandi et bibendi? Habemus potestatem a domino concessam de uestro [sumptu] uiuendi sine nostro labore.
“Do we not have the right to eat and drink?” We have the right, granted by the Lord, to live from what is yours without our own labour.
1 Cor 9:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Apostles have the right to be supported.
- Souter brackets “sumptu” (“at your expense”); left out.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
Numquid non habemus potestatem mulieres circumducendi? Non dixit ‘mulieres ducendi,’ ne de uxoribus dicere putaretur, sed ‘circumducendi,’ inquit, per prouincias, quae necessaria de suis facultatibus ministrarent. Sicut et ceteri apostoli et fratres domini et Cephas ?
“Do we not have the right to lead women about?” He did not say “to take women,” lest he be thought to speak of wives, but “to lead about,” he says, through the provinces, women who would minister necessities from their own means. “As do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?”
1 Cor 9:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The women who travelled with apostles served them from their own means; they were not wives.
- Pelagius's reading that the verse does not refer to wives is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): etfratres → et fratres.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
aut ego solus et Barnabas non habemus potestatem [hoc] operandi? Non illos condemnat, sed suum dat exemplum: illi enim fidelioribus praedicabant, et apud Iudaeos antiqua haec erat consuetudo, ut necessaria doctoribus a discipulis praeberentur, quod gentes adhuc rudes poterat scandalizare.
“Or do only Barnabas and I not have the right to refrain from working?” He does not condemn them, but gives his own example: for they preached to people of greater faith, and among the Jews this was an old custom, that necessities were provided for teachers by their disciples, which could scandalize Gentiles who were still new to the faith.
1 Cor 9:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul works to avoid scandalizing new Gentile converts, without condemning apostles who accept support.
- The digital text reads “potestatem [hoc] operandi” (“the right to do [this] working”), with “hoc” bracketed by Souter; the Vulgate has “non operandi” (“of not working”), and the comment requires that sense, so it is translated so.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
Quis militat suis stipendiis aliquando? Aliis etiam exemplis probat sibi debitum hoc fuisse. ‘suis,5 [hoc est,] et non publicis, uel eorum pro quibus militat. Quis plantat uineam , et fructum eius non edit? quis pascit gregem [ ouium ], et de lacte gregis non manducat? Per comparationem uineae et gregis populum uult intellegi, sicut ibi: ‘uineam de Aegypto transtulisti,’ et iterum: ‘dabo uobis pastores secundum cor meum, et pascent uos cum disciplina.’
“Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense?” He proves by other examples too that this was owed to him. “His own,” that is, not out of public funds or those of the people for whom he fights. “Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?” By the comparison of the vineyard and the flock he wants the people to be understood, as in the passage: “You brought a vineyard out of Egypt,” and again: “I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they will feed you with discipline.”
1 Cor 9:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 80:8 (79:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 3:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Soldier, vinedresser and shepherd show that teachers are owed support; vineyard and flock mean the people.
- Souter brackets “hoc est” and “ouium”; left out.
- Ps 80:8 (79:9 LXX); Jer 3:15.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
Numquid secundum hominem loquor, an et lex hoc [non] dicit? Id est, numquid proprio tantum sensu loquor?
“Do I say this according to man, or does [not] the law also say this?” That is, do I speak only from my own sense?
1 Cor 9:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul appeals to the law, not just his own view.
- Souter brackets “non”, kept in brackets for sense.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175
Scriptum est enim [in lege Moysi]: Non alligabis os boui trituranti. numquid de bubus cura est deo ?
“For it is written: You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Is God concerned about oxen?”
1 Cor 9:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 25:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 9:9.
- Souter brackets “in lege Moysi” (“in the law of Moses”); left out. Deut 25:4.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): Scripturn → Scriptum; cur a est → cura est.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175–176
an propter nos utique [haec] dicit? Quo modo ergo de passeribus ei cura est? et ad Ionam de Niniue[n] dicitur: ‘in qua sunt homines et pecora multa’? sed de ipsis propter hominem, cui creata sunt, cura est ; nam deficiente homine et ista deficiunt ; non tamen proprie dei curam merentur. Nam propter nos scripta sunt, quoniam in spe qui arat debet arare, et qui triturat debet spei suae fructum percipere. Debet fructum sui laboris sperare, et qui triturat debet de ipsa area manducare.
“Or does he say it entirely for our sake?” How then does he care for sparrows? And to Jonah it is said of Nineveh: “in which there are men and many cattle”? But he cares for them for the sake of man, for whom they were created; for when man fails, they fail too; yet they do not properly merit God's care. “For it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes ought to receive the fruit of his hope.” He ought to hope for the fruit of his labour, and he who threshes ought to eat from that very threshing floor.
1 Cor 9:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 10:29 (allusion, high confidence) · Jonah 4:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God cares for animals for man's sake; the law about the ox speaks of teachers.
- Souter brackets “haec” and a letter of “Niniue”; left out.
- Matt 10:29; Jonah 4:11.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175–176; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175–176
[ Si ] nos uobis spiritalia seminauimus, [non\ magnum est, si nos uestra carnalia metamus ? Si uobis spiritalia et diuina seminauimus, numquid grauaremus uos, si a uobis quae carni opus sunt uellemus accipere?
“If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?” If we have sown spiritual and divine things among you, would we be burdening you if we wished to receive from you what the flesh needs?
1 Cor 9:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Those who give spiritual things may fairly receive material support.
- Souter brackets “Si” and “non”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): etdiuina → et diuina.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:175–176; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:176
Si alii potestati[s ] uestrae participes sunt, non potius nos ? sed non usi sumus hoc potestate. Si alii a uobis acceperunt quibus minime debebatur, pseudo-apostoli scilicet, quos nihil uobis certum est contulisse, quanto magis nos accipere poteramus, si uobis esse utile sentiremus ! Sed omnia sustinemus, ne[c\ quod offendiculum demus euangelio Christi. Hoc est, [et] famem [et] sitim et nuditatem libentissime toleramus, ne per nos aduersariis occasione accepta deuorantibus offendatis, aut ne [cui] praedicatio nostra in aliquo reprehensibilis uideatur, auaritiae suspicione maculata.
“If others share in authority over you, do not we rather? But we have not used this authority.” If others received from you, to whom it was not owed at all, that is, the false apostles, who certainly gave you nothing, how much more could we have received, if we had judged it useful to you! “But we endure all things, lest we put any hindrance in the way of the gospel of Christ.” That is, we most gladly endure hunger, thirst and nakedness, so that you may not stumble through us, when adversaries seize the occasion and devour you, or so that our preaching may not seem blameworthy in anything, stained by a suspicion of greed.
1 Cor 9:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul forgoes support so that his preaching may not be suspected of greed.
- Souter brackets letters of “potestatis” and “nec”, and “et”, “cui”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): partidpes → participes.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:176; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:176–177
Nescitis quoniam qui in sacrariis operantur, quae de sacrariis sunt edunt? qui altario deseruiunt, de altario participantur? Aput Iudaeos secundum consuetudinem Ueteris Testamenti et iam hoc exemplo eadem repetendo confirmat.
“Do you not know that those who work in the sanctuaries eat what comes from the sanctuaries, and those who serve the altar share in the altar?” Among the Jews, according to the custom of the Old Testament; and now by this example he confirms the same point by repeating it.
1 Cor 9:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The temple priesthood shows that ministers are fed by their service.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Nesdtis → Nescitis; partidpantur → participantur.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:176–177; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177
Ita [ et] dominus ordinauit his qui euangelium adnuntiant de euangelio uiuere . Dicens: ‘dignus est operarius mercede sua.5
“So the Lord ordained for those who proclaim the gospel to live by the gospel.” Saying: “The labourer is worthy of his wages.”
1 Cor 9:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 10:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Lord ordained support for preachers.
- Souter brackets “et”; left out. Luke 10:7.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177
Ego autem nihil [h~\orum usus sum . non scripsi autem haec , ut ita fiant in me. Non haec idcirco scribo, ut uel modo fiat quod ante factum non est; sed uobis exemplum praebeo, tarn proprii quam alieni causa discriminis, saltim ab inlicitis abstinere, cum uideatis me aliorum causa salutis debita non minus quam inlicita contempsisse. Bonum est enim mihi magis mori: gloriam [autem] meam nemo euacuabit . Etiam si fame morerer, propositum meum, de quo ante deum glorior, numquam potero immutare.
“But I have used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it may be done so in my case.” I do not write this so that what was not done before may be done now; but I offer you an example, for the sake of the danger to yourselves as much as to others, that you should at least abstain from unlawful things, when you see that for the sake of others' salvation I have disdained what was owed me no less than what was unlawful. “For it is better for me to die than that anyone should make my glory void.” Even if I were to die of hunger, I could never change my purpose, of which I glory before God.
1 Cor 9:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul refuses support even to the point of death, as an example of renouncing for others' sake.
- Souter brackets “autem” and a letter of “horum”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together): itafiant → ita fiant; euacuahit → euacuabit.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177
Nam si euangelizem, non est mihi gloria : necessitas enim mihi incumbit. ‘Cum omnia feceritis praecepta,’ debita uo[bi]s dicite persoluisse: non enim aliquid amplius fecistis unde gloriari possitis. Uae enim mihi est , si non euangelizauero. Damnationem habeo.
“For if I preach the gospel, I have no glory: for necessity is laid upon me.” “When you have done all the commands,” say that you have paid what you owed: for you have done nothing more of which you could glory. “For woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.” I incur condemnation.
1 Cor 9:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 17:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Preaching is Paul's duty and gives no ground for glory.
- Luke 17:10, cited loosely.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177–178
Si enim uolens hoc ago , mercedem habeo: si autem inuitus , dispensatio mihi credita est. Tunc magis uidebitur uoluntarium, si amore eius licita contemnantur.
“For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, a stewardship has been entrusted to me.” It will seem more truly voluntary if lawful things are disdained for love of him.
1 Cor 9:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Renouncing lawful things shows a willing service.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177–178; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177–178
Quae est enim mea merces ut euangelium praedicans sine sumptu efficiam euangelium, ut non abutar potestate mea in euangelio? Quasi interrogat unde maiorem possit habere mercedem, et ipse respondit: ‘si gratis adnuntiem nec acceptam exerceam potestatem.’
“What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.” He asks, as it were, how he can have a greater reward, and he himself answers: “If I proclaim it freely and do not exercise the authority I received.”
1 Cor 9:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's greater reward is to preach without pay.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line-end hyphen): adnun- tiem → adnuntiem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:177–178; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178
Nam cum liber essem ex omnibus , omnium me seruum feci[t], ut plures lucri facerem. Cum possim uti libertate mea et de ceteris non ita curare, omnibus tamen compassus sum, ut eos facerem saluos.
“For though I was free from all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might win more.” Though I could use my freedom and not concern myself so with others, I have nevertheless shared the feelings of all, so as to make them saved.
1 Cor 9:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul serves all to save them.
- Souter brackets a letter making “feci” into “fecit”; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178
Et factus sum ludaeis tamquam ludaeus , ut ludaeos lucrarer. Quando se purificauit in templo, quod tempore gratiae sciebat esse superfluum. His qui sub lege sunt , quasi sub lege essem. Ostendit quo modo fuerit cum ipsis et ipse ludaeus. potest et ita intellegi quod Samaritanos dixerit esse sub lege, qui[a] legem tantum Moysi uidentur accipere. Cum ipse non sim sub lege , ut eos qui sub lege sunt lucri faciam. Non est sub lege uetere, quae peccatoribus data esse perscribitur.
“And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews.” When he purified himself in the temple, which he knew to be superfluous in the time of grace. “To those who are under the law, as if I were under the law.” He shows how, when he was with them, he too was a Jew. It can also be understood that he said the Samaritans were under the law, because they appear to accept only the law of Moses. “Though I myself am not under the law, that I might win those who are under the law.” He is not under the old law, which is described as given to sinners.
1 Cor 9:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 21:26 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Tim 1:9 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul kept Jewish rites to win Jews, though the old law no longer bound him.
- Acts 21:26; 1 Tim 1:9.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): f actus → factus.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178–179
[flYs] qui sine lege sunt , tamquam sine lege sim [, ut lucri faciam eos qui sine lege sunt]. Sine lege litterae et a gentibus in primis solam fidem quaerebat, quasi non haberet praecepta legis Christi, quae illos obseruare doceret. Siue: In eo quo illos ad fidei credulitatem non tarn legalibus doctrinis quam rationabilibus argumentis prouocabat, sicut [Athenis fecisse perhibetur, philosophos et paganos per philosophiam et ararum titulos exhortando,] dum dicit: ‘circuiui aras uestras,’ et ‘ut quidam uestrum dixerunt,’ [et cetera]. Cum sine lege dei non sim, sed sub lege sim Christi. Contra Arrianos et Fotinianos, quod deus sit Christus. etiam hoc notandum quod nouum testamentum lex appelletur.
“To those who are without the law, as though I were without the law.” Without the law of the letter; and from the Gentiles at first he sought faith alone, as if he had no precepts of the law of Christ to teach them to keep. Or: in that he roused them to belief not so much by teachings of the law as by rational arguments, as when he says: “I went round your altars,” and “as some of you have said.” “Though I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ.” Against the Arians and Photinians, that Christ is God. This too should be noted, that the New Testament is called a law.
1 Cor 9:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul won Gentiles by faith and reason; “the law of God… of Christ” shows Christ is God.
- Souter brackets the opening word of the lemma, its last clause (“that I might win those who are without the law”), the words “at Athens he is said to have done this, exhorting philosophers and pagans through philosophy and the inscriptions on altars”, and “et cetera”; left out.
- Acts 17:23, 28. The Photinians followed Photinus of Sirmium, who taught that Christ was a mere man.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): iSdei → fidei; Ccircuiui → ‘circuiui.
Topics: Christology, Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:178–179; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.22Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179
Factus sum infirmis infirmus, ut infirmos lucri faciam. Propter infirmos holera manducaui, cum possem securus carnibus uesci promiscuis. Omnia omnibus factus sum , ut omnes saluos faciam. ‘Non [aliquid mihi, nec] quaerens quod mihi utile est, sed quod multis.’ [item] Aliter: In his quae superius memorauimus, non, ut quidam male existimant, ilium etiam inlicitis consensisse.
“To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak.” For the sake of the weak I ate vegetables, though I could safely eat any kind of meat. “I became all things to all, that I might save all.” “Not seeking what is profitable to me, but to many.” Otherwise: in the things we mentioned above, it does not mean, as some wrongly suppose, that he consented even to unlawful things.
1 Cor 9:22 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 10:33 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul accommodated the weak, but never to the point of doing wrong.
- Souter brackets “aliquid mihi, nec” and “item”; left out. 1 Cor 10:33.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): Foetus sum infir mis → Factus sum infirmis; lucri f adorn → lucri faciam; omni bus foetus → omnibus factus; saluos f adorn → saluos faciam.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.23Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179
Omnia autem facio propter euangelium, ut particeps eius efficiar. Ut in eo partem merear habere cum sanctis.
“And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker of it.” That I may be worthy to have a share in it with the saints.
1 Cor 9:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul seeks a share in the gospel with the saints.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): fado propter → facio propter; dus ejfidar → eius efficiar.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.24Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179
Nescitis quoniam [hi] qui in stadio currunt, omnes quidem currunt , sed unus accipit brabium ? [ego autem dico uobis ;] sic currite, ut [omnes] conprehendatis . Hie stadii cursum iustitiae uel fidei comparauit, quia, quo modo illic, cum omnes intra stadium currant, non nisi qui bene cucurrerit dignus praemio iudicatur, ita et hie, quamuis intra fidei metas cuncti credentes contineantur, soli tamen qui iuste uixerint praemium caeleste percipient.
“Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” Here he compared the race in the stadium to righteousness or to faith: just as there, though all run within the stadium, only he who has run well is judged worthy of the prize, so here too, though all believers are held within the bounds of faith, only those who have lived righteously will receive the heavenly prize.
1 Cor 9:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: All believers run, but only those who live righteously win the prize.
- Souter brackets “hi”, “ego autem dico uobis” (“but I say to you”) and “omnes”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): Nesdtis → Nescitis; cur runt → currunt; cur rite → currite.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.25Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179–180
Omnis autem qui in agone contendit, ab omnibus se abstinet. Ab omnibus escis quae cursum eorum impedire consue[ue]runt. [Et illi quidem ut corruptibilem coronam aedpiant, nos autem incorruptam.]
“But everyone who competes in the games abstains from all things.” From all foods that usually hinder their running.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Cor 9:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Athletes abstain from foods that would slow them.
- Souter brackets the rest of the verse (“they to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (running head and page number): nos autem PELAQl EXPOSITIO [ix 26incorruptam → nos autem incorruptam.
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:179–180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.26Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180
ego igitur sic curro, non ut in incertum, sic certo , non ut aera caedens. Non in uanum curro uel fingo certamen.
“So I run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one beating the air.” I do not run in vain or feign a contest.
1 Cor 9:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul's contest is real.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): curroy → curro,.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.27Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180
Sed castigo corpus meum et seruituti subicio. Per abstinentiam et adflictionem atque labores, sicut alibi ait: ‘in ieiuniis multis et uigiliis, in fame et siti, in frigore et nuditate, [et] in laboribus, in carceribus, in plagis, in seditionibus/ et cetera, sicut [et] ad Hebraeos prophetas et alios sanctos passos multa talia memorauit. Ne forte , cum aliis praedicauerim , ipse reprobus efficiar. Non faciendo quod dico.
“But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection.” Through abstinence, affliction and labours, as he says elsewhere: “In much fasting and watching, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, in labours, in prisons, in beatings, in tumults,” and so on; just as in Hebrews he recalled that the prophets and other saints suffered many such things. “Lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should be found reprobate.” By not doing what I say.
1 Cor 9:27 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 6:5 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 11:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:36–38 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul disciplines his body by fasting and hardship, lest he fail to practise what he preaches.
- Souter brackets “et” twice; left out.
- A conflation of 2 Cor 6:5 and 11:27; Heb 11:36–38.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): abbi ait → alibi ait; nnditate → nuditate; ediciar → efficiar.
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 9.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/9-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 10
10.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180
Nolo enim uos ignorare, fratres, quoniam patres nostri omnes sub nube fuerunt et omnes mare transierunt . Ne quis confidens in eo solo quo[d] baptizatus est, aut in esca spiritali uel potu, putet sibi deum parcere, si peccauerit, tale patrum proponit exemplum, quo ostendat tunc ista merito profutura, si praecepta seruentur.
“For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.” Lest anyone, trusting only in having been baptized, or in spiritual food or drink, think that God will spare him if he sins, he sets forth this example of the fathers, to show that these things will rightly profit only if the commands are kept.
1 Cor 10:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Baptism and the sacraments profit only those who keep the commands.
- Souter brackets a letter of “quod”; no change in sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; words run together): Noh enim → Nolo enim; m eo soio → in eo solo; sipeccauerit → si peccauerit; time ista → tunc ista; praeuepra → praecepta.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180
Et omnes in Moysen baptizati sunt. In Moysen, qui Christi typum gerebat. In nube et in mari. Quia et nubes proprium umorem portat.
“And all were baptized into Moses.” Into Moses, who bore the type of Christ. “In the cloud and in the sea.” Because the cloud too carries its own moisture.
1 Cor 10:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Moses is a type of Christ; the cloud, like the sea, holds water.
- The comment is badly garbled in the digital text and is read as “quia et nubes proprium umorem portat”.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips): m omnes m Moysen → Et omnes in Moysen; tju uuues propnum → et nubes proprium.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180
Et omnes eandem escam spiritalem manducauerunt . Manna figura corporis Christi fuit.
“And all ate the same spiritual food.” The manna was a figure of the body of Christ.
1 Cor 10:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The manna prefigured Christ's body.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips): spimuLvnt manduco.up.runt → spiritalem manducauerunt.
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180–181
Et omnes eundem potum spiritalem biberunt : bibebant autem de spiritali consequenti eos petra : petra autem erat Christus. Quia Christus erat postmodum secuturus, cuius figuram tunc petra gerebat, idcirco pulchre dixit : ‘ consequenti [eos] petra.’ Sed non in pluribus eorum bene placitum est deo: nam prostrati sunt in deserto. Ita ergo et uobis erit, si eos uolueritis peccando imitari.
“And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.” Because Christ was to follow afterwards, whose figure the rock then bore, he said beautifully: “the rock that followed.” [v. 5] “But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.” So it will be with you too, if you choose to imitate them by sinning.
1 Cor 10:4–5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The rock prefigured Christ; the fathers' fall warns sinners now.
- The numeral of verse 5 was unreadable; the verse begins at [v. 5].
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; page reference, stray numeral and OCR slip): m wanes eundem poium → Et omnes eundem potum; x 7l [eos] petra. 6 Sea non → [eos] petra.’ Sed non; pladtum → placitum.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:180–181; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:181
Haec autem in figura[m] facta sunt nostri, ut non simus concupiscentes malorum , sicut et illi concupierunt. Ipsis uere facta sunt, quae in figura erant nostra, ut timeamus talia gerere, ne talia incurramus. omnia enim quae in populo Istrahel illo tempore facta sunt in figura, nunc in nobis in ueritate celebrantur. sicut enim illi per Moysen ex Aegypto liberati sunt, sic nos per quemlibet sacerdotem uel doctorem de saeculo liberamur. deinde Christiani facti ducimur per deserta, ut per exercit[i]um contemptus mundi et abstinentiae in obliuionem nobis eant Aegypti uoluptates, ita ut nesciamus ad saeculum repedare. cum uero baptismi mare transimus, tunc nobis diabolus cum suo exercitu tamquam Farao demergitur. deinde manna cibamur et potum accipimus de Christi latere [e]manantem. claritas quoque scientiae tamquam columna ignis in nocte saeculi demonstratur, et in tribulationis aestu diuinae consolationis nube protegimur. post quae omnia si peccauerimus, ista nobis sola suffragari non poterunt, sicut et ad Hebraeos dicitur: ‘irritam quis faciens legem Moysi duobus et tribus testibus sine ulla miseratione punitur: quanto magis putatis deteriora mereri supplicia, qui filium dei conculcauerit,’ et cetera !
“Now these things happened as a figure of us, that we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.” They truly happened to them, but they were figures for us, so that we may fear to do such things, lest we incur such things. For all that was done in figure among the people of Israel at that time is now celebrated in truth among us. As they were freed from Egypt through Moses, so we are freed from the world through some priest or teacher. Then, having become Christians, we are led through deserts, so that through the exercise of contempt for the world and of abstinence the pleasures of Egypt may pass into forgetfulness, and we may not know how to go back to the world. And when we pass through the sea of baptism, the devil with his army is drowned for us like Pharaoh. Then we are fed with manna and receive drink flowing from Christ's side. The brightness of knowledge too is shown like a pillar of fire in the night of the world, and in the heat of tribulation we are protected by the cloud of divine consolation. After all this, if we sin, these things alone will not be able to help us, as is also said to the Hebrews: “Anyone who sets aside the law of Moses is punished without any mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses: how much worse punishments do you think he will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God,” and so on!
1 Cor 10:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 10:28–29 (quotation, high confidence) · John 19:34 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The exodus is fulfilled in the Christian life, but its gifts do not save one who sins.
- Heb 10:28–29; John 19:34.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nostri9 → nostri,; liberaur → liberamur; saejculum → saeculum; igDis → ignis.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:181; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:181–182
Neque id[ol]olatr[a]e efficiamur , sicut aliqui ex ipsis , quem ad modum scriptum est: Sedit populus manducare et bibere, et surrexerunt ludere . In idol[i]o recumbentium usque adeo negotium adgrauauit, ut illos idololatras fuisse definiat.
“Nor become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” He weighs the case of those who recline in an idol's temple so heavily that he defines them as idolaters.
1 Cor 10:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 32:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Eating in idol temples is idolatry.
- Exod 32:6.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:181–182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182
Neque fornicemur , sicut quidam ex ipsis fornicati sunt et ceciderunt una die uiginti tria milia [ hominum .] Notandum quod non soli idol[ol]atr[a]e perire dicantur.
“Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.” Note that not only idolaters are said to perish.
1 Cor 10:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 25:9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Sexual immorality too brought death on Israel.
- Souter brackets “hominum”; left out. Num 25:1–9.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182
Neque temptemus Christum , sicut quidam eorum . Et hie Christus deus ostenditur, quia deum dixisse legimus: ‘temptauerunt me [hoc] decies.’ Temptauerunt et a serpentibus perierunt. Dicentes: ‘numquid potest deus parare mensam in deserto? ’
“Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them did.” Here too Christ is shown to be God, because we read that God said: “They have tempted me ten times.” “And were destroyed by serpents.” Saying: “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?”
1 Cor 10:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 14:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 21:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 78:19 (77:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Tempting Christ in the wilderness shows that Christ is God.
- Souter brackets “hoc”; left out. Num 14:22; 21:6; Ps 78:19 (77:19 LXX).
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182
Neque murmuraueritis , sicut quidam ex ipsis murmurauerunt. In tribulationibus propter Christum. Et perierunt ab exterminatore:
“Nor murmur, as some of them murmured,” In tribulations for Christ's sake. “and were destroyed by the destroyer.”
1 Cor 10:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Do not murmur in tribulation.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): exterminator e → exterminatore.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182
haec autem omnia in figura contingebant illis, scripta sunt autem ad correptionem nostram. Omnia quae illis contigerunt, secundum facta quidem sua receperunt, sed tamen ideo scripta sunt, ne nos putemus impune peccare. si enim adhuc paruolis et rudibus non pepercit, quanto magis nobis, qui legem perfectionis accepimus, non parcet, si talia fecerimus ! In quos finis saeculorum deuenit. In quos tota temporum perfectio decucurrit.
“Now all these things happened to them as a figure, but they were written for our correction.” All that happened to them they received according to their own deeds, but it was written so that we should not think we can sin with impunity. For if he did not spare those who were still little children and untaught, how much less will he spare us, who have received the law of perfection, if we do such things! “Upon whom the end of the ages has come.” Upon whom the whole fulfilment of the times has run down.
1 Cor 10:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Israel's punishments warn Christians, who have the law of perfection.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): jigura → figura.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182
Itaque qui existimat se stare, uideat ne cadat. Uideat ne per hoc ipsum cadat quod se stare firmiter gloriatur. Siue: Uideat ne fallatur.
“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” Let him see that he does not fall by this very thing, that he boasts that he stands firmly. Or: let him see that he is not deceived.
1 Cor 10:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Boasting of standing leads to falling.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182–183
Temptatio uos non adprehendit nisi humana. Non uobis uenit extrinsecus ista temptatio, quam uobis sponte generatis, ad quod[etiam si] tormentis cogi minime deberetis. hoc ideo dicit, quia spontanea uoluntate immolata idolis manducabant. Fidelis autem deus est qui non patietur uos temptari. Qui se pollicitus est sui nominis causa in tribulationibus adfuturum, ut ibi: ‘ multae tribulationes iustorum,’ et cetera. Super id quod potestis, sed faciet cum temptatione etiam prouentum , ut possitis sustinere. Non ampliorem uobis tribulationem uenire patietur quam sustinere possitis.
“No temptation has seized you except what is human.” This temptation does not come to you from outside; you produce it of your own accord, a thing to which you ought not to be driven even by torture. He says this because they ate things sacrificed to idols of their own free will. “But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted” He who promised that he would be present in tribulations for the sake of his name, as there: “Many are the tribulations of the righteous,” and so on. “beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way out, that you may be able to endure it.” He will not allow a tribulation greater than you can endure to come upon you.
1 Cor 10:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 34:19 (33:20 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Corinthians' temptation is self-made; God limits trials to what can be borne.
- Souter brackets “etiam si” (“even if”); left out. Ps 34:19 (33:20 LXX).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): sedfaciet → sed faciet.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:182–183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183
Propter quod , karissimi mihi, fugite ab idolorum cultura:
“Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from the worship of idols:”
1 Cor 10:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 10:14.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.15Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183
ut prudentes [ loquor ]. Propter omnia quae superius conprehendi. Uos iudicate quod dico ,
“as to prudent people.” Because of all that I have set out above. “Judge for yourselves what I say:”
1 Cor 10:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul appeals to their judgment.
- Souter brackets “loquor” (“I speak”); left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183
calicem benedictionis quem benediximus . Ideo primum calicem nominauit ut posset de pane latius disputare. Nonne communicatio sanguinis Christi est? Sicut ipse saluator ait: ‘qui manducat carnem meam et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet et ego in eo.’ [Et] panis quem frangimus , nonne participatio corporis domini est? Ita et panis idololatriae daemonum participatio esse monstratur.
“The cup of blessing which we bless.” He named the cup first so that he could discuss the bread more fully. “Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?” As the Saviour himself says: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.” “And the bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of the Lord?” So too the bread of idolatry is shown to be a participation in demons.
1 Cor 10:16 (quotation, high confidence) · John 6:56 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The cup and bread are communion in Christ's blood and body; idol bread is communion with demons.
- Souter brackets “Et”; left out. John 6:56.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): calicern → calicem.
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183
Quoniam unus panis unum corpus multi sumus : nam omnes de uno pane [et de uno calice] participamur . Ita si cum idololatris de uno pane comedimus, unum cum illis corpus efficimur.
“Because there is one bread, we, though many, are one body: for we all partake of the one bread.” So if we eat of one bread with idolaters, we become one body with them.
1 Cor 10:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Eating with idolaters makes one body with them.
- Souter brackets “et de uno calice” (“and of the one cup”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): unc pane → uno pane.
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183–184
Uidete Istrahel secundum carnem. Carnalis Istrahel carnales hostias offerebat, sicut spiritalis sacrificia spiritalia offert Christo. Nonne qui edunt hostias participes sunt altaris? Sicut illi edentes hostias participes fiebant diuini altaris, ita isti similiter idolorum.
“Consider Israel according to the flesh.” Israel according to the flesh offered carnal victims, just as the spiritual Israel offers spiritual sacrifices to Christ. “Are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?” Just as they, by eating the victims, became partakers of the divine altar, so these likewise become partakers of the idols.
1 Cor 10:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Eating sacrifices makes one a partaker of the altar.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): kostias → hostias.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:183–184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184
Quid ergo dico? quod idolis immolatum est aliquid ? non quod idolum sit aliquid ,
“What then do I say? That what is sacrificed to idols is anything? Not that an idol is anything,”
1 Cor 10:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 10:19.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): eat dliquid → est aliquid; oliquid → aliquid.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184
sed quae immolant [gentes], daemoniis immolant . nolo [autem] uos socios fieri daemoniorum . Praeuenit, ne quis diceret: “ergo dicis uim aliquam habere idolum uel posse polluere?” ‘non,’ inquit, ‘idolum insensibile polluit, sed daemones, qui templis praesident ad homines deprauandos et suo seruitio mancipandos.’
“but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons. I do not want you to become companions of demons.” He forestalls anyone who might say: “Then you say that an idol has some power, or can defile?” “No,” he says, “the senseless idol does not defile, but the demons do, who preside over temples to deprave men and enslave them to their service.”
1 Cor 10:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Idols are nothing, but demons stand behind them.
- Souter brackets “gentes” and “autem”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): sodos → socios.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184
Non potestis calicem domini bibere et calicem daemoniorum: non potestis mensae domini participes esse et mensae daemoniorum. Non potestis et dei et daemonum esse participes.
“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” You cannot be partakers both of God and of demons.
1 Cor 10:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: One cannot share both the Lord's table and the demons'.
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.22Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184
An domino aemulamur? [Aemulamur.] alii codices habent: ‘ipsi me zelauerunt in non deo,’ hoc est, ad zelum prouocauerunt. Numquid fortiores illo sumus ? Qui ista non fecit: nam si scisset hinc fidem firmissimam conprobari, in hoc quoque dedisset exemplum.
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?” Other manuscripts have: “They have made me jealous with what is not God,” that is, they have provoked me to jealousy. “Are we stronger than he?” Than he who did not do these things: for if he had known that the firmest faith was proved by this, he would have given an example in this too.
1 Cor 10:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 32:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul did not eat idol food, which shows it proves no strong faith.
- Souter brackets “Aemulamur” (“we provoke”); left out. Deut 32:21.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): dedissetexemplum → dedisset exemplum.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.23Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184
[Omnia licent, sed non omnia expediunt.] Omnia quae a lege non prohibentur, Iicent, quia per se non habent peccatum, sed non semper expediunt, quia occasionem non numquam generant delinquendi. Omnia Iicent , sed non omnia aedificant.
All things that are not forbidden by the law are lawful, because in themselves they have no sin; but they are not always expedient, because they sometimes give occasion for sin. “All things are lawful, but not all things build up.”
1 Cor 10:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: What is lawful is not always expedient.
- Souter brackets the first half of the verse (“All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (words run together): [Omnialicent.sed → [Omnia licent, sed.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.24Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184–185
nemo quod suum est quaerat, sed quod alterius. Omne quod expedit licet, non omne quod licet expedit: sed nos exemplo apostoli et Christi non debemus ilia tantum considerare quae licent, sed ilia potius quae nobis expediunt et aedificant fratres, ut non quaeramus quae nobis solis temporaliter prosunt et aliis forsitan nocent.
“Let no one seek his own, but what is another's.” Everything that is expedient is lawful; not everything that is lawful is expedient. But we, following the example of the apostle and of Christ, ought to consider not only what is lawful, but rather what is expedient for us and builds up the brothers, so that we do not seek what profits only ourselves for a time and perhaps harms others.
1 Cor 10:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christians should seek what builds up others, not merely what is lawful.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): quaeraty → quaerat,; aUerius ♦ → alterius..
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:184–185; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.25Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185
Omnia quae in macello ueneunt , manducate, nihil interrogantes propter conscientiam . Si uultis manducare carnes, saltim de macello conparate; tantum ne in idol[i]o comedatis, et nolite interrogare utrum immolatae sint, ne cognoscentes uos, omnia immolata esse respondeant, et non possitis propter conscientiam manducare.
“Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking nothing for conscience' sake.” If you want to eat meat, at least buy it from the market; only do not eat in an idol's temple; and do not ask whether it has been sacrificed, lest, recognizing you, they answer that everything has been sacrificed, and you cannot eat for conscience' sake.
1 Cor 10:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Buy meat in the market without asking questions.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): in maeello → in macello; de maeello → de macello.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.26Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185
Domini est [enim] terra et plenitudo eius. Si domini sunt,, munda sunt [omnia] simpliciter utentibus.
“For the earth is the Lord's and its fullness.” If they are the Lord's, they are clean to those who use them simply.
1 Cor 10:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 24:1 (23:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: All the Lord's creatures are clean to the simple.
- Souter brackets “enim” and “omnia”; left out. Ps 24:1 (23:1 LXX).
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.27Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185
Si quis uocat uos infidelium [ad cenam] et ibitis , omne quod adponitur uobis manducate , nihil interrogantes propter conscientiam, Concessit ire, si uelint. tunc sane debet Cristianus ad infidelem ire, si nouit esse profectum, sicut saluator, qui ad hoc ibat ut aut signa faceret aut doceret, sicut a[pu]d Phariseum primo ipsum docuit non diuites pascendos esse, sed debiles; deinde simul discumbentes docuit humilitatem etiam in accubitu custodire; postremo legis peritos arguit adrogantes eo quod nec ipsi redarguerent superbiam nec alios paterentur.
“If any of the unbelievers invites you and you go, eat whatever is set before you, asking nothing for conscience' sake.” He allowed them to go if they wished. A Christian should indeed go to an unbeliever if he knows it will bring profit, as the Saviour did, who went for this purpose, either to do signs or to teach: at the Pharisee's house he first taught him that it is not the rich who should be fed but the weak; then he taught those reclining with him to keep humility even in where they recline; finally he rebuked the arrogant lawyers because they neither rebuked pride themselves nor allowed others to.
1 Cor 10:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 14:12–13 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 14:7–11 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 11:46 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christians may dine with unbelievers when it profits them, as Christ did.
- Souter brackets “ad cenam” (“to dinner”); left out. Luke 14:1–14; 11:37–52.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.28Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185–186
[Si quis autem dixerit : Hoc immolaticium est, nolite manducare propter conscientiam :]
[“But if anyone says, This has been sacrificed, do not eat it, for conscience' sake:”]
1 Cor 10:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 10:28.
- Souter brackets the whole verse as not part of Pelagius's commentary; it is shown in brackets so that the section is not empty.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:185–186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.29Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186
conscientiam autem dico non tuam , sed alterius. Ne quis putet ilia uos quasi sancta comedere. Ut quid enim libertas mea iudicatur ab infideli conscientia? Hoc est, ad quem profectum ita utor libertate mea, ut me alius reprehendat?
“I mean the conscience not your own, but the other's.” Lest anyone think you eat these things as if they were holy. “For why is my liberty judged by an unbelieving conscience?” That is, to what profit do I use my liberty in such a way that another rebukes me?
1 Cor 10:29 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Liberty should not be used where others will condemn it.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.30Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186
Si e[r]go cum gratia percipio , quid [adhuc] blasphemor pro eo quod gratias ago? Non ideo sub gratia sumus, ut sub libertatis specie occasionem demus infidelibus blasphemandi.
“If then I partake with thanks, why am I blasphemed for that for which I give thanks?” We are not under grace so that, under the appearance of liberty, we may give unbelievers an occasion to blaspheme.
1 Cor 10:30 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Grace gives no licence to cause blasphemy.
- Souter brackets “adhuc”; left out.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.31Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186
Siue ergo manducatis siue bibitis siue aliquid facitis, omnia in gloria[m] dei [ facite ]. Nihil magis agendum est Christiano quam ut in omni opere eius dei gloria praedicetur, nec aliquid faciat unde Christi doctrina possit in aliquo reprehendi.
“Whether therefore you eat or drink or do anything, do all to the glory of God.” Nothing should a Christian do more than see that God's glory is proclaimed in his every work, and do nothing by which Christ's teaching could be blamed in any way.
1 Cor 10:31 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Every act should glorify God.
- Souter brackets “facite” (“do”); left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): gloria[m] dez → gloria[m] dei.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.32Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186
Sine offensione [e]stote ludaeis et Grecis et ecclesiae dei. Quia et Iudaei tamquam de idol[ol]atribus scandalum patientes credere non audebant, et gentes in colendis idolis firmabantur, et Cristiani tali destruebantur exemplo.
“Give no offence to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God.” Because the Jews, scandalized as if by idolaters, did not dare to believe; the Gentiles were confirmed in worshipping idols; and Christians were destroyed by such an example.
1 Cor 10:32 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Eating idol food harmed Jews, Gentiles and Christians alike.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.32 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.33Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186–187
Sicut et ego omnibus per omnia placeo, non quaerens quod mihi utile est , sed quod multis, ut salui fiant. Ego me sic exhibeo, ut omnibus placeam ad [ipsorum] profectum. si quis me sine causa odisse uoluerit, ego non sum in culpa, numquid apostolus ipse se laudat? non se ad extollentiam laudat, sed suo exemplo illos prouocat ad profectum; unde et nos ad hoc solum debemus placere uelle, et ita sicut ille tantum deus nostram nouerit conscientiam, quia non hoc propter fauorem, sed propter salutem hominum faci[a]mus.
“Just as I too please all in all things, not seeking what is profitable to me but to many, that they may be saved.” I so present myself as to please all for their profit. If anyone chooses to hate me without cause, I am not at fault. Does the apostle praise himself? He does not praise himself to exalt himself, but rouses them to progress by his example; hence we too ought to wish to please for this alone, and in such a way that, as with him, God alone knows our conscience, that we do this not for favour but for the salvation of men.
1 Cor 10:33 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul pleases all for their salvation, not for favour.
- Souter brackets “ipsorum”; left out.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): saluijiant → salui fiant.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 10.33 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:186–187; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/10-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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