For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
Ver. 3. First of all] Christ is to be preached with the first, as being the prora et puppis of man's happiness, John 16:14. It is the office of the Holy Ghost to take of Christ's excellencies, and hold them out to the world. What then should ministers, the mouth of the Holy Ghost, do rather?