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. A View of Religions in Three Parts ... - Page 7by Hannah Adams - 1805 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...connexion 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 imsanctified. That by carnal the apostle means corrupt and unsanctified,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Sin, Original - 1808 - 402 pages
...turns to the Corinthians, in the first words of the next chapter, connected with this, and says, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal." Referring manifestly to what he had been saying, in the immediately preceding discourse, about spiritual... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 pages
...turned unto fables*." • 3 Tim. IT. 3,4. Thirdly : The large portion of unsanctified ivisdom found even in godly men. — " The wisdom of this world," as...to " meat ;" and as leading them to build upon the gospel foundation a mixture of " wood, and hay, and stubble ;" all which shall be burnt up another... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...to the believers at Corinth, to those who were " sanctified in Christ Jesus, i Cor. i. 2, he says, " I brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ : Ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying and strife, are... | |
| John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...they had not the power of miVatles, which he intended shortly to come, and show they had not. TEXT. 1 AND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. PARAPHRASE. 1 A.ND I, brethren, found you so given up to pride and vain-glory, in affectation of learning... | |
| John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 672 pages
...yet, were not capable of higher mysteries. So our apostle useth the same similitude, 1 Cor. iii, 1,2. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...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... | |
| John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 672 pages
...yet, were not capable of higher mysteries. So our apostle useth the same similitude, 1 Cor. iii, 1,2. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...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... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregationalism - 1812 - 406 pages
...passions, it shows weakness, instead of strength and fortitude. 1 Cor. iii. at the beginning, And /, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife ', and divisions, are... | |
| Missions - 1843 - 752 pages
...Christian proTession ; which led Paul to say of the Corinthians that he could not " speak unto them as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ ; " for whereas," says he, " there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are yc not carnal,... | |
| John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...divisions have taken place amongst Christians, they have been spoken of not as spiritual, but as carnal. 1 could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal ; saith the apostle to the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 3.1. "I could not tell how to look upon you, or converse... | |
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