Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

Who worship Him. The invocation of His name is, by synecdoche, taken for worship in general.

These pronouns in the Vulgate are referred to place ; but in the text they

"He does not blame them for taking their name from Christ, but he com- plains that all did not do so. And I think that he added this of himself, with a view to show the weightiness of the charge, as if Christ were thus appropriated to a party, although they did not designate themselves in this manner." St. Chry- sostom.

This may be a mode of affirming that he baptized no other ; or the apostle may have been uncertain whether he baptized any other of the Corinthians. In- spiration does not necessarily impart a knowledge of all things, but it prevents error in any actual statement.

The chief object of his mission was to preach, for which his natural talents, and the extraordinary circumstances of his conversion, peculiarly qualified him. He, however, was authorized to baptize, as the facts which he states show. The Hebrews often speak as if excluding what is secondary to another object.

A manifestation of Divine power. Rom. i. 16.