...; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers : for in Christ Jesus have I begotten you through the gospel." When a minister of the gospel, after labouring for several...

...Epistle to that church : " I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you; for though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who...

...often, in his epistles to the Corinthians, applied to himself: vid. 2 Cor. xii. 10. TEXT. TEXT. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this c.^use have I sent unto you Timotlleus,...

...perfect strangers to. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but, as my beloved sons, I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 18 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. Observe here, 1. The holy ingenuity of the apostle,...

...some to be as spiritual fathers unto others, Paul tells the Corinthians, that he was their father, " 9 risen. — Come see the place where the Lord lay. 1 Cor. 4:15. But alas! such fathers are but ministerial fathers, and therefore Paul seems to correct...

...of a minister of Christ are, in the phraseology of the New Testament, his spiritual children — " Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." On such grounds as these, the comprehensive principle of interpretation may, to a considerable extent,...

...expected and asserted by the minister .of Christ, in the prosecution of his trust. "For though," says he, "ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have...Christ Jesus I HAVE BEGOTTEN you through the gospel. "3 In treating, therefore, on the subject of ministerial effi-crency, a«d In .confidently asserting,...

...are bom again, by the ministry of this Word, and the seals of it, as 1 Cor. iv. 15, " For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel." As also, Gal. iv. 19. But all those have their vigour and efficacy in this great work from the Father...

...God, [which is] your reasonable service. Rom. xii. 1. For though ye have ten thousand instructors iu Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers ; for, in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 1 Cor. iv. 15,. 16. Brethren, be followers together...

...corner-stone : and when he says to these same Corinthians *, with reference to his own labours among them, Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers, he adds, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through 1 Eph. ii. 20. ' 1 Cor. iv. 15. the Compel....