Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 1:4 Going about to condemn many vices, he beginneth with a true commendation of their virtues, lest he might seem after to descend to chiding being moved with malice or envy: yet so, that he referreth all to God as the author of them, and that in Christ. That the Corinthians might be more ashamed to profane and abuse the holy gifts of God.
2. 1 Corinthians 1:5 He toucheth that by name, which they most abused.
3. 1 Corinthians 1:5 Seeing that while we live here, we know but in part and prophesy in part, this word (All) must be refrained to the present state of the faithful: and by speech he meaneth not a vain kind of babbling, but the gift of holy eloquence, which the Corinthians abused.
4. 1 Corinthians 1:6 He showeth that the true use of these gifts consisteth herein that the mighty power of Christ might thereby be set forth in them, that hereafter it might evidently appear how wickedly they abused them to glory and ambition.
5. 1 Corinthians 1:6 By those excellent gifts of the holy Ghost.
6. 1 Corinthians 1:7 He saith by the way, that there is no cause why they should please themselves so much in those gifts which they had received, seeing that those were nothing in comparison of them which are to be looked for.
7. 1 Corinthians 1:7 He speaketh of the last coming of Christ.
8. 1 Corinthians 1:8 He testifieth that he hopeth well of them hereafter, that they may more patiently abide his reprehension afterward. And yet together therewithall showeth, that as well the beginning as the accomplishing of our salvation is only the work of God.
9. 1 Corinthians 1:8 He calleth them blameless, not whom man never found fault with, but with whom no man can justly find fault, that is to say, them which are in Christ Jesus, in whom there is no condemnation. See Luke 1:6.
10. 1 Corinthians 1:9 True and constant, who doth not only call us, but giveth us the gift of perseverance also.