...easy and ready answer to that question of the Apostle; " Who made thee to differ from another? What hast thou, that thou didst not receive ? Now, if thou...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ? I Cor. iv. 7- Such a one might boldly reply, upon the scheme of our opponents, my own reflection...

...lights.' I" pou this consideration the apostle proceeds to check the Christian Pharisee thus: ' What hast thou that thou didst not receive ? Now if thou...dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?' — Whence it follows, that, though St. Panl himself glories in, and boasts of his disinterestedness,...

...hath made thee to differ? (saith Paul, 1 Cor. iv. to those who wished to set aside this equality,) and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? now,...thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou had? t not received it ?" Thus, while God reigns in us through Christ, all things are his and nothing...

...let him glory " in the Lord, for who maketh thee to " differ from another, and what hast thou " which thou didst not receive ? now if " thou didst receive it, why dost thou " glory ? if any man would be wise in " this world, let him learn to esteem him-' " self a fool that he may...

...makcth thee to differ," (or excel,) that there should be any occasion of being puffed up; for "what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? Now if thou didst receive, why dost thou glory, as if thou didst not receive," ver. 7. He goes on ironically to reprove the boastful...

...mankind are a manifestation of God, and not a cause for pride, saying: For who maketh thee to differ from another! and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?...why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received ii? (4.7, original emphasis) Likewise, the Book of Romans asserts that "there is no difference between...

...small degree that such a man understands and knows God Himself. 'What hast thou', says the apostle, rge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in it?v" That is, why do you glory as if anything of yours were due to you? Now the man who lives rightly...

...Corinthians iv. 7 1 : 'For who maketh thee to excel? And what hast thou that thou hast not received? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?' moral indifference, people's entitlements must depend on considerations other than notions of possession...

...gospel. What fine fellows we are! But Scripture comes to us again — "For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" (1 Cor. 4:7). Paul teaches this in the context of his rebuke to those who glory in human teachers —...

...grace upon tneir souls. SECTION XV. For who maltet h íhee to differ from another ? And what hast thon, that thou didst not receive ? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not rcceioed it?—\ Cor. iv. 7. NOT man's free will, care, industry, and diligence, but efficacious grace...