For when one says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apol′los,” are you not merely men?
ὅταν γὰρ λέγῃ τις· ἐγὼ μέν εἰμι Παύλου, ἕτερος δέ· ἐγὼ Ἀπολλῶ, οὐκ ἄνθρωποί ἐστε;
But here he strikes at those in subjection, in the words,
For when one says, I am Paul, and I of Apollos, are you not carnal?
And he points out that this, so far from helping them at all or causing them to acquire any thing, had even become an obstacle to their profiting in the greater things. For this it was which brought forth jealousy, and jealousy had made them carnal; and the having become carnal left them not at liberty to hear truths of the sublimer sort.