Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
HE CONFIRMS HIS TEACHING AS TO NOT PUTTING A STUMBLING-BLOCK IN A BROTHER'S WAY (I Corinthians 8:13) BY HIS OWN EXAMPLE IN NOT USING HIS UNDOUBTED RIGHTS AS AN APOSTLE, SO AS TO WIN MEN TO CHRIST. (1Co. 9:1-27)
Am I not an apostle? am I not free?—The oldest manuscripts read the order thus, "Am I not free? am I not an apostle?" He alludes to I Corinthians 8:9, "this liberty of yours": If you claim it, I appeal to yourselves as the witnesses, have not I also it? "Am I not free?" If you be so, much more I. For "am I not an apostle?" so that I can claim not only Christian, but also apostolic, liberty.
have I not seen Jesus—corporeally, not in a mere vision: compare I Corinthians 15:8, where the fact of the resurrection, which he wishes to prove, could only be established by an actual bodily appearance, such as was vouchsafed to Peter and the other apostles. In Acts 9:7, Acts 9:17 the contrast between "the men with him seeing no man," and "Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way," shows that Jesus actually appeared to him in going to Damascus. His vision of Christ in the temple (Acts 22:17) was "in a trance." To be a witness of Christ's resurrection was a leading function of an apostle (Acts 1:22). The best manuscripts omit "Christ."
ye my work in the Lord—Your conversion is His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10) through my instrumentality: the "seal of mine apostleship" (I Corinthians 9:2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 9:1:
Acts 9:5
Romans 1:1
Philippians 1:15
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