1 Corinzi 9:3

3 Quest’è quel ch’io dico a mia difesa a coloro che mi accusano.

1 Corinzi 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:3

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this.
] These words are referred by some to the following, as if the apostle's answer lay in putting the questions he does in the next verses; but they rather seem to belong to the preceding, and the meaning to be this, that when any persons called in question his apostleship, and examined him upon that head, what he thought fit to say in answer to them, and in defence of himself, was by referring them to the famous church at Corinth, who were as particular persons, and as a church, his work in the Lord, and everyone of them as so many seals of his apostleship; he being the first preacher of the Gospel to them, the founder of them as a church, and the instrument of their conversion.

1 Corinzi 9:3 In-Context

1 NON sono io apostolo? non sono io libero? non ho io veduto il nostro Signor Gesù Cristo? non siete voi l’opera mia nel Signore?

2 Se io non sono apostolo agli altri, pur lo sono a voi; poichè voi siete il suggello del mio apostolato nel Signore.

3 Quest’è quel ch’io dico a mia difesa a coloro che mi accusano.

4 Non abbiamo noi podestà di mangiare e di bere?

5 Non abbiamo noi podestà di menare attorno una donna sorella, come ancora gli altri apostoli, e i fratelli del Signore, e Cefa?