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1 Corinthians 3:5

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Who then is Paul? and who is Apollos?.... The apostle's name being used, and he a party concerned, could speak the more freely upon this head, and ask what they thought of himself, and other preachers, whether they were more than men?

what authority and power they had, whether they looked upon them as the authors of a new religion, or the founders of a new sect, that were to go by their names?

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