Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
Is Christ divided? - into various parts, so that He hath sharers in His power, and so some of you call yourselves after Him; others after this and that leader? Surely not (Theodoret). But since the Greek particle, requiring the negative answer, does not occur in this clause, as it does in the next, I prefer (as Vulgate), 'Christ
(i:e., the body of Christ: cf. Romans 16:7) is divided' by your divisions. 'To glory in Christ's name amid discords is to rend Him in pieces. Then only doth He reign in us when He is to us the bond of sacred unity' (Calvin). The unity of His body is not to be cut in pieces, as if all did not belong to Him, the One Head.
Was Paul crucified for you? The Greek interrogation х mee (G3361);] implies that a negative answer is expected: 'Was it Paul (surely you will not say so) that was crucified for you?' In the former question the majesty of "CHRIST," the Anointed One of God, implies the impossibility of His being "divided." In the latter, 'Paul's' insignificance implies the impossibility of his being the head of redemption - "crucified for" them, and giving his name to the redeemed. This, which is true of Paul, the founder of the church of Corinth, holds equally good of Cephas and Apollos, who had not such a claim as Paul there.
Crucified ... baptized. The cross claims us for Christ as redeemed by Him, baptism as dedicated to Him.
In the name - rather х eis (G1519) to (G3588) onoma (G3686)], 'into the name' (Galatians 3:27), implying the incorporation involved in the idea of baptism.