"I" and "We" in 1 and 2 Corinthians.

1878 5 Remark the singular beauty and fitness, as to feelings, of the way in which the apostle passes from "I" to "we" in 2 Corinthians ii. 14, and more variously in chapter 7, where he passes from one to another: so in chapter 8, and the chapters which follow, as chapter ix., save verse 11. See how he turns in chapter x. 2, and the mixture in verse 8. The apostle is one. Paul is "I;" and his heart made him so with the Corinthians. See much of the "I" (as it were foolishly). Chapter xi. 21 brings in "we," but is generally "I;" chapter xii., "I," save verse 19. The same interchange in chapter xiii. as in chapter viii. Chapter iii. is all "we," chapters i. and ii. being naturally varied. Save Paul and his children, chapters vi. 3; iii., iv., 5, vi., is all the ministerial "we." But the natural appropriateness is striking. See the change in 1 Corinthians ii. 6 as characteristic. So chapter i. 23: so chapter ii. 12, 13. See the change in chapter iv. 1, 2, 3. See verse 9, changing in verse 14. In chapters 5, vi., vii. we turn to "I." In chapter ix. we return to the apostolic "we;" in verse 15 to Paul again, and to the end, save chapter xv. 15: only he has mentioned the apostles.