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].

Waiting for the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here he frightens them, reminding them of the second coming of Christ. For if Christ appears, how then do you have alien primates? It also shows that virtues are also necessary for gifts. For in that day gifts will not help him in the least who has not lived virtuously (Matt. 7:21-23), Finally, the word of the appearance expresses the idea that Christ is present even now, but hidden, and then He will appear.

Who will also establish you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

By the word he confirms that they are wavering, and by the word innocent he expresses that they are now subject to accusation. In this epistle he mentions the Lord Jesus Christ more often than in others, in order to remind the Corinthians by whom they were saved and whose name they bear. For Christians are so called from Christ, and not from the name of any person [5].

Faithful is God, by whom (δι' ου) you have been called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

That is, God is true. But if He is true, and has called us into the fellowship of His Son, that is, to glorify us with the Son in His kingdom, then it is evident that He will fulfill what He has promised. You are called, he says, and did not come of your own accord. How proud you are, as if of your own deeds? Notice here that the word by Whom directly refers to the Father.

I beseech you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.