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1 Corinthians 4:16

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

Wherefore, I beseech you,.... Though he might have used the power and authority of a father, yet he chose rather to entreat and beseech them; saying,be ye followers of me; for who should children follow, but their parents?

The Vulgate Latin, adds, "as I am of Christ"; so Chrysostom in his time read it; and Beza says he found it so written in one Greek exemplar; and so it is in one of Stephens's; it seems to have crept in from 1Co 11:1.

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