Day 6 - Friday - 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 - Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. - Logos

 3:5–9

In 3:5–9, Paul uses an agricultural image in dealing with the preoccupation of the Corinthians with specific leaders. Hays and Williams have detected an echo here of Isa. 5:1–7, a prominent text in early Jewish interpretation of Scripture. Overlapping features include the planting as the people of God, God’s role as the chief worker and owner of the vineyard/field, the relative unimportance of human workers and their role as mediators, and the notion of inappropriate fruit. In particular, like 1 Cor. 3:5–9, Isa. 5:2 mixes building and planting metaphors (cf. Jer. 18:9; 24:6; Ezek. 36:9–10).

 Ciampa, Roy E., and Brian S. Rosner. “1 Corinthians.” Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI;  Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic;  Apollos, 2007. 703. Print.