The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide: I Corinthians
Translated by Thomas Wimberley Mossman
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The opening
CHAPTER I
I After his salutation and thanksgiving, lo he exhorteth them to unity, and 12 reproveth their dissensions, lii God destroy et it the wisdotn of the ‘wise, 21 by tJie foolishness of preaching, and 26 calleth not the wise, tnighty, and noble, butT.”], 28 the foolish, weak, and men of 710 account.
PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Soslhenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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About this edition
- The words
- Thomas Wimberley Mossman's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 15 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
- The series half-title (“VOLUME SEVEN / THE GREAT COMMENTARY / OF / CORNELIUS A LAPIDE”) (5 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- Closing line “END OF VOL. I.”
- The printer's imprint (Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.)
- A speck read as “«” and the scanning library's spine label (“BS 493”, “vol.7”) (4 blocks)
- Printer's signature mark (20 blocks)