 | New Church gen. confer - 1855
...says he could not address them as spiritual men, but as carnal, even as mere babes in Christ : — " For ye are yet carnal ; for whereas there is among you envying and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men ?* For while one saith I am of Paul, and another, I am... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815
...compliance and condescension in this respect. •' And I, brethren," says St. Paul to the Corinthians, " could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ Jesus. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it," 1 Cor.... | |
 | John Hume Spry - 1817 - 465 pagina’s
...was reserved for those who had ears to hear and hearts to receive the treasures of heavenly wisdom. " I, brethren, could not speak unto you " as unto spiritual,...neither yet now are ye able. For ye are " yet carnal." By telling them then that they " are carnal," may we not conceive him to mean, that they had but imperfectly... | |
 | John Hume Spry - 1817 - 465 pagina’s
...was reserved for those who had ears to hear and hearts to receive the treasures of heavenly wisdom. " I, brethren, could not speak unto you " as unto spiritual,...neither yet now are ye able. For ye are " yet carnal." By telling them then that they " are carnal," may we not conceive him to mean, that they had but imperfectly... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1786
...wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." He likewise speaks ironically of their pretensions to wisdom : iv. 10, " We are fools for Christ's... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817
...connection plainly shews mean the same, as spiritual men and natural men, in the foregoing verses ; And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto SPIRITUAL, but as unto CARNAL; ie as in a great measure unsanctified*. Now therefore, if by natural and carnal, in these texts, be... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1818 - 239 pagina’s
...this very Epistle from which our text is taken, Saint Paul, addressing the Corinthians, says ; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." The Corinthian converts, then, had not advanced beyond the first principles of the oracles of God :... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1818
...they not being able to digeft fuch as were more tough and S ERM. difficult : / have, faith St. Paul, fed you with milk, and not *• with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it— -for ye, cor.iii. ?. are yet carnal ; and, Ye, faith the Apoftle to the Hebrews, Heb. vn are fuch as... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 323 pagina’s
...be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."— 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so convincing,... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 323 pagina’s
...be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."—1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so... | |
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And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able. 
