For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
Ver. 4. For when one saith, &c.] So those that will needs be called Lutherans, Iurantque in verba magistri. They swear in the words of a teacher. Did not Luther play the man, when he and other Dutch divines advised Philip Landgrave of Hesse, a pious prince, to marry a second wife, that is, an adulteress, while his lawful wife was yet alive? And might he not deceive and be deceived in other things as well as in that? (Zanch. Miscel. Epist. Dedicat.)
Are ye not carnal?] Nay, will not the world think ye are mad? as the apostle speaks in a like case, 1 Corinthians 14:23. Will they not think worse. See John 17:21; John 17:23. If Christians unite not, if they fall out and wrangle, the world will think "thou never sentest me," saith our Saviour.