Geneva Bible Notes (1560)1 Corinthians 1

^{1 !} He praiseth the great graces of God shewed towarde them.

^{2 b} Made holie by the fre mercie & calling of God.

^{2 c} Which is to acknowledge him to be verie God, to worship him, and seke vnto him for helpe.

^{2 a} Whome God hathe separate from the rest of the worlde, purified, and giuen to his Sonne, that he might be in them, and they in him.

^{4 d} For all the benefites which ye haue receiued by the Gospel.

^{5 e} As membres of the same bodie which communicate with their head.

^{5 f} He commendeth those giftes in them, whose abuse after he doeth reproue, as eloquence, philosophie, and their knowledge of Gods worde.

^{8 g} For there is no condemnation to them that are grafted in Christ Jesus.

^{10 !} Exhorting them to concorde, and humilitie.

^{10 h} Disagreing in wordes ingendreth dissention of minde, whereof procedeth repugnancie of judgement, which is the mother of schisme and heresie.

^{11 i} Which was a vertuous woman & zealous of Gods glorie and soght the quietnes of the Church.

^{13 k} Read the annotacion, {Act. 3:16}

^{14 l} This Gaius was Pauls hoste, in whose house also the Church was at Corinthus, {Rom. 16, 23}:there was yet another so called, which was of Derbe & followed Paul, {Act 20,4}

^{17 n} As rhetoricke or arte oratorie.

^{17 o} When men shulde attribute that vnto eloquence, which onely belonged to the power of God.

^{17 m} That is, chiefly & peculiarly.

^{19 !} He beateth downe all pride, and wisdome which is not grounded on God.

^{20 q} He that is so subtil in discussing questions? & herein Paul reprocheth euen the best learned, as thogh not one of them colde perceiue by his owne wisdome this mysterie of Christ reueiled in the Gospel.

^{20 p} That is, the interpreter of the Law.

^{25 r} He speaketh in the persone of the wicked, who contrarie to their conscience rather attribute these things to God then acknowledge their owne follie & weakenes.

^{26 !} Shewing whome God hathe chosen to confounde in the wisdome of the worlde.

^{26 s} According as the worlde termeth wise men.

^{28 t} Which are in mans judgement almost nothing, but taken for abjects & castwaies.

^{28 u} Estemed & in reputacion.

^{29 x} Thus he calleth man in contempt & to beate downe his arrogancie.