Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
With a rod (en rabdw). The so-called instrumental use of en like the Hebrew (I Samuel 17:43). The shepherd leaned on his rod, staff, walking stick. The paedagogue had his rod also.
Shall I come? (elqw). Deliberative subjunctive. Paul gives them the choice. They can have him as their spiritual father or as their paedagogue with a rod.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 4:21:
Romans 14:17
1 Corinthians 16:10
2 Corinthians 10:1
Galatians 5:22
3 John 1:10
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