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  PAUL
  by J.R. Miller
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The First Epistle to the Corinthians was written from Ephesus in the
spring of A.D. 57. The apostle had heard that dissensions were troubling
the church at Corinth, and he wrote to them giving many exhortations and
commands. Early in the letter he stated his conception of his mission,
"Christ sent me to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the
cross of Christ should be made of none effect." As if one should prepare
a fountain of pure, fresh water by a great highway, to give drink to the
weary pilgrims who pass by—but should plant so many lovely trees and
flowers about the fountain as to hide it from the eyes of those whom it
was designed to refresh. That is the danger when men use the wisdom of
this world in preaching the gospel; the perishing ones who listen are
too often charmed by the beautiful flowers of rhetoric or poetry or
science with which the cross is ornamented, and fail to see the cross
itself!

The story is familiar of the artist who had painted his picture of the
Last Supper, and then called his friends to look at it. He had tried to
make the Master\

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