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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 1 Corinthians 14:38

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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if any man be ignorant--wilfully; not wishing to recognize these ordinances and my apostolic authority in enjoining them. let him be ignorant--I leave him to his ignorance: it will be at his own peril; I feel it a waste of words to speak anything further to convince him. An argument likely to have weight with the Corinthians, who admired "knowledge" so much.
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