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**Verse 2**
*With milk;* with merely the elementary principles of Christianity.

**Verse 5**
*Ministers;* servants, subordinate instruments.

**Verse 6**
It will be seen by the account in [Acts 18:24](../../../kjv/acts/18/24),[Acts 18:27](../../../kjv/acts/18/27),[Acts 18:28](../../../kjv/acts/18/28), that Apollos commenced his ministry in Corinth, after Paul had left it.

**Verse 8**
*Are one;* they have one end and aim.

**Verse 9**
*Ye are God's husbandry;* that is, although Paul and Apollos had been employed as laborers in the field, it was upon God that they had really to depend for their spiritual life and growth.

**Verse 12**
*Gold, silver,* &c. In other words, whatever materials he may incorporate in the Christian edifice, whether valuable and permanent, or destructible and worthless, the true character of his work would be revealed in a future day.

**Verse 13**
*Revealed by fire;* tried and exposed by the terrible scrutiny of the great day.

**Verse 15**
*Yet so as by fire;* with difficulty,--as one escapes from a burning building.

**Verse 18**
*Let him become a fool;* let him abandon all his dependence upon his worldly wisdom, and seek wisdom from above, with meekness and docility.

**Verse 19**
*It is written;* [Job 5:13](../../../kjv/job/5/13).

**Verse 20**
[Psalms 94:11](../../../kjv/psalms/94/11).
**Verse 21**
*Let no man glory in men.* The apostle thus bringing his train of remark to a conclusion which bears directly upon the great cause of their dissensions,--their excessive personal predilections for the various individuals who had been the instruments of bringing them the gospel.

**Verse 23**
*Ye are Christ's;* that is, ye do not belong to Paul and to Apollos, &c., as one in might suppose from your undue and inordinate interest in such human leaders; ye are Christ's.--*And Christ is God's;* you owe, therefore, no spiritual allegiance to any but to Christ and to God.

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