Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
It is a very small thing that I should be judged of you - Those who preferred Apollos or Kephas before St. Paul, would of course give their reasons for this preference; and these might, in many instances, be very unfavourable to his character as a man, a Christian, or an apostle; of this he was regardless, as he sought not his own glory, but the glory of God in the salvation of their souls.
Or of man' s judgment - ̔ ̔ , literally, or of man' s day: but ̔ signifies any day set apart by a judge or magistrate to try a man on. This is the meaning of ̔ , Psalms 37:13 : The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his Day, ̔ ̔ , his judgment is coming. Malachi 3:17 : And they shall be mine in the Day, ̔ , in the judgment, when I make up my jewels. It has the same meaning in II Peter 3:10 : But the Day, the Judgment, of the Lord will come. The word , man' s, signifies miserable, wretched, woful; so Jeremiah 17:16 : Neither have I desired, yom enosh , the day of man; but very properly translated in our version, the woful day. God' s Days, Job 24:1, certainly signify God' s Judgments. And the Day of our Lord Jesus, in this epistle, I Corinthians 1:8; I Corinthians 5:5, signifies the day in which Christ will judge the world; or rather the judgment itself.
I judge not mine own self - I leave myself entirely to God, whose I am, and whom I serve.
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