Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians by the Holy Apostle Paul

My God.

Out of great love, he assimilates God, common to all.

For you, for the grace of God.

By this he also teaches the Corinthians to always have grateful feelings for God, and not for their own works, for he says: I thank for the grace of God, and not for the sake of your works.

Given unto you in Christ Jesus.

That is, through Christ Jesus, and not through so-and-so. Why then do you pay attention to people?

For in Him (εν αύτω) you have been enriched in all things.

The expression in Him is again used instead of: "through Him (δι' αυτού)". And so, when you have riches, and the riches of God, both in all things, and through the Only-begotten Himself, how then do you, who are ungrateful, appoint people to teach yourselves?

With every word and every knowledge.

There is also a word without reason, when, for example, someone speaks empty, without any thought. There is also reason without words, when one thinks about lofty things, but does not find words to express them. But you have both the word and the divine mind, so that you can both think and speak.

For (καθώς) the testimony of Christ has been confirmed in you.

The word for stands instead of "through which" (δι' ων). Through the word, he says, and the understanding with which you have been enriched, testimony has been established in you, that is, the preaching of Christ; for you have received this preaching not by outward wisdom, but by the signs and gifts which you have been vouchsafed.

So you are not lacking in any talent.

If they had no lack of gifts, then how does he call them carnal (Chapter 3, v. 1)? To this we will say: not all were spiritual, and not all were carnal; therefore, everything that he speaks of now speaks to the spiritual, and what follows he speaks to the carnal. Or, perhaps, in the beginning they received all kinds of gifts, but afterwards they became negligent and began to live according to the flesh [4].