1 Corinthians — Chapter 1
These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 5
5. In al knowledge.) Faith commeth by hearing rather then reading. Obserue that the Apostles neuer wrote their letters but to such as were conuerted to Christes faith before. For men can not lightly learne the Christian religion by reading Scriptures, but by hearing and by the presence of their Teachers, which may instruct them at large and particularly of euery Apostle, as clerely and breefely by letters they could not doe. Neither doth now any man learne his faith first but by hearing of his parents and Maisters. For if we should when we come to yeares of discretion, be set to picke our faith out of the Scriptures, there would be a mad worke and many faiths among vs.
Verse 30
30. Who is made.) Christ is made our iustice, because he is the Authour of the iustice in vs. He meaneth not, as our Aduersaries captiously take it, that we haue no iustice, sapience, nor sanctity of our owne, other then Christes imputed to vs: but the sense is, that he is made the Authour, giuer, and meritorious cause of al these vertues in vs. For so the Apostle interpreteth himself plainly in the 6. Chapter following, when he writeth thus: You be washed, you be iustified, you be sanctified in the same of our Lord IESVS CHRIST and in the Spirit of our God.