1Cor 4:10-13 | JFB | STEP | 10. Irony. How much your lot (supposing it real) is to be envied, and ours to be pitied. fools-- ( ; ; compare ; ). for Christ's sake ... in Christ-- Our connection with Christ only entails on us the lowest ignominy, "ON ACCOUNT OF," or, "FOR THE SAKE OF" Him, as "fools"; yours gives you full fellowship IN Him as "wise" (that is, supposing you really are all you seem, ). we ... weak ... ye ... strong-- ( ; ). we ... despised-- ( ) because of our "weakness," and our not using worldly philosophy and rhetoric, on account of which ye Corinthians and your teachers are (seemingly) so "honorable." Contrast with "despised" the "ye (Galatians) despised not my temptation ... in my flesh" ( ).

‏ 1 Corinthians 4:10-13

10. Irony. How much your lot (supposing it real) is to be envied, and ours to be pitied.

fools--(1Co 1:21; 3:18; compare Ac 17:18; 26:24).

for Christ's sake ... in Christ--Our connection with Christ only entails on us the lowest ignominy, "ON ACCOUNT OF," or, "FOR THE SAKE OF" Him, as "fools"; yours gives you full fellowship IN Him as "wise" (that is, supposing you really are all you seem, 1Co 3:18).

we ... weak ... ye ... strong--(1Co 2:3; 2Co 13:9).

we ... despised--(2Co 10:10) because of our "weakness," and our not using worldly philosophy and rhetoric, on account of which ye Corinthians and your teachers are (seemingly) so "honorable." Contrast with "despised" the "ye (Galatians) despised not my temptation ... in my flesh" (Ga 4:14).

11. (2Co 11:23-27).

naked--that is, insufficiently clad (Ro 8:35).

buffeted--as a slave (1Pe 2:20), the reverse of the state of the Corinthians, "reigning as kings" (Ac 23:2). So Paul's master before him was "buffeted" as a slave, when about to die a slave's death (Mt 26:67).

12. working with our own hands--namely, "even unto this present hour" (1Co 4:11). This is not stated in the narrative of Paul's proceedings at Ephesus, from which city he wrote this Epistle (though it is expressly stated of him at Corinth, compare Ac 18:3, 19). But in his address to the Ephesian elders at Miletus (Ac 20:34), he says, "Ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities," &c. The undesignedness of the coincidence thus indirectly brought out is incompatible with forgery.

13. defamed, we entreat--namely, God for our defamers, as Christ enjoined (Mt 5:10, 44) [Grotius]. We reply gently [Estius].

filth--"the refuse" [Conybeare and Howson], the sweepings or rubbish thrown out after a cleaning.

of all things--not of the "World" only.