1 Corinthians 14

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1 Corinthians 14:31-34 in Papyrus 123 from the 4th century.
Book First Epistle to the Corinthians
Category Pauline epistles
Christian Bible part New Testament
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1 Corinthians 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. In this chapter, Paul writes about the gift of prophesying and about speaking in tongues. Biblical scholar F. Dale Bruner states that "edification becomes the theme of this chapter: in Paul's thought, the ultimate criterion for a gift of the Spirit is this: Does it upbuild the church?" [1]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. The chapter is divided into 40 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Verse 2

Verse 21

Verse 29

Verses 34–35

Verses 34–35 are believed by some scholars to have been interpolated into the text by a later scribe: [8]

As in all the churches of the saints, women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 14:34–35, New Revised Standard Version [9]

Verses 34–35 are included in all extant manuscripts. Part of the reason for suspecting that this passage is an interpolation is that in several manuscripts in the Western tradition, it is placed at the end of chapter 14 instead of at its canonical location. This kind of variability is generally considered by textual critics to be a sign that a note, initially placed in the margins of the document, has been copied into the body of the text by a scribe. [10] As E. Earle Ellis and Daniel B. Wallace note, however, a marginal note may well have been written by Paul himself. The loss of marginal arrows or other directional devices could explain why the scribe of the Western Vorlage placed it at the end of the chapter. The absence of an asterisk or obelisk in the margin – a common way of indicating doubt of authenticity of any manuscript – is, they argue, a strong argument that Paul wrote the passage and intended it in its traditional place. [8] The passage has also been taken to contradict 11:5, where women are described as praying and prophesying in church. [10] Alternatively, some scholars have argued that the passage is Paul's quotation of his Corinthian opponents, whom he has refuted by means of a negative rhetorical query directed toward the congregation in verse 36 following canonical order. [11] Advocates of this quotation/refutation hypothesis explain the Western interpolation of the verses out of sequence (at the end of the chapter) as part of a scribal effort to shelter and defend these sentiments from the admonishment of Paul within the canonical verse order. [12]

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References

  1. Bruner, F. D., A Theology of the Holy Spirit, quoted in Buls, H. H. 1 Corinthians 1:12–20: Speak to be Understood, accessed 9 April 2017
  2. 1 Corinthians 14:2 KJV
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:2 NKJV
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "1 Corinthians 14:2 - Commentary & Verse Meaning - Bible". Bible Study Tools. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  5. Vid. Gloss. in Talmud Bab. Beracot, fol. 3. 1. & in Yoma, fol. 20. 2.
  6. Isaiah 28:11,12
  7. Pulpit Commentary on 1 Corinthians 14, accessed 10 April 2017
  8. 1 2 Daniel B. Wallace: The Textual Problem of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 Bible.org, June 26th 2004.
  9. 1 Corinthians 14:34–35
  10. 1 2 John Barton; John Muddiman, eds. (2001). The Oxford Bible Commentary . New York: Oxford University Press. p.  1130. ISBN   978-0-19-875500-5.
  11. Wilson, Joseph AP (2022). "Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist within the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35". Religions . 13 (5): 432. doi: 10.3390/rel13050432 .
  12. Odell-Scott, D.W. "Editorial dilemma: the interpolation of 1 Cor 14:34–35 in the western manuscripts of D, G and 88." Web: 23 Mar 2018.

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