16:12 With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, 3 but it was simply not his intention to come now. 4 He will come when he has the opportunity.
1 tn Grk “are you not men,” i.e., (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence. Here Paul does not say “walking in accordance with” as in the previous verse; he actually states the Corinthians are this. However, this is almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole.
2 tn Or “And I say this because.”
3 tn Grk “with the brothers.”
4 tn Grk “it was simply not the will that he come now.”