Of the cursive MSS., between the 9th and 15th century, there are 300 containing St. Paul's Epistles, all of them, doubtless, with these two Epistles. The proportion of this number to that of other parts of the New Testament is midway, there being 500 of the Gospels, 200 of the Acts and Catholic Epistles, and 100 of the Apocalypse.1 There are, besides, 150 Lectionaries (i. e. extract-books) of the Gospels, and 60 of the Acts and Epistles. At the close of the Second Epistle I have subjoined two Appendices: First, the apocryphal correspondence between the Corinthians and St. Paul, preserved as canonical in the Armenian Church. Secondly, a brief account of the Authorized English Version of the two canonical Epistles, with such corrections and arrangements as may serve to place the sense and structure of the Epistles in a clearer form before the English reader. 1 Tischendorf, Præf. p. lxxv. (1.) Disuse of Female Head-dress. XI. 2-15 · the Lord's Supper. XI. 16-34 (3.) The Spiritual Gifts. XII. 1-XIV. 40 - ib. (a.) Unity and Variety of the Spiritual Gifts. XII. 234 - 253 (b.) Love, the greatest of Gifts. XII. 31-XIII. 13. (c.) The Superiority of Prophesying to Speaking with (d.) Necessity of Order. XIV. 26-40 (IV.) THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. XV. 1—58 (V.) THE CONCLUSION. XVI. 1-24 274 290 312 - 330 341 INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. CORINTH, at the time of the Christian era, was very different from the city of which we read in the narratives of Thucydides and Xenophon. The supremacy which had been enjoyed at earlier periods of Greek history by Argos, Sparta, Athens, and Thebes, in turn, had, in the last stages of that eventful drama, come round to Corinth, often before the ally and rival, but never till the last years of its independent existence the superior, of the other Grecian commonwealths. When the native vigour of the other states of Greece had been broken by the general submission to Alexander and his successors1, Corinth rose at once to that eminence to which the strength of her position as the key of the Peloponnesus, and the convenience of her central situation for purposes of communication and commerce, would always have secured for her, had it not been for 1 An excellent description of the state of Corinth at this period is to be found in Leake's Morea, vol. iii. c. 28. Compare also the quotations from classical authors in Wetstein's Notes on 1 Cor. i. 1.; the Life and Epistles of St. Paul, by the Rev. W. J. Conybeare and the Rev. J. S. Howson, vol. i. part vi. ch. xii., and the article "Corinthus" in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. With Notes, and Para- (II.) THE INTERCOURSE WITH HEATHENS. IV. 21-VI. 20 - 94 (1.) The Case of Incest. IV. 21—V. 13 |