...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,...why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it ?" Thus, while God reigns in us through Christ, all things are his and nothing ours, so that no one...

...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...

...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...

...memory. Nonetheless, it is a gift of God's caritas that he can thus meet himself, for, as Paul said: "Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?"4 To look at himself in his own memory without being grateful to God would be narcissism —...

...contrast, hold to a pure gospel. What fine fellows we are! But Scripture comes to us again — "For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast...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...

...think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" 1 Cor. 4:6. 7. When it is true of every man that he has nothing, absolutely nothing, even to his existence,...