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Originally Posted by Evangelical
But Wallace is an expert so what he writes is according to his expert knowledge. If he thought there were multiple churches per city he would not have said that.
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Matthew Henry is a well respected theologian and I quoted him. He agrees with me that the same ones who were sectarian in chapter 3 were those who were being sanctified, that he addressed the letter to in chapter 1 as "the church in Corinth".
The point of Paul is not that the sectarian Christians need a better name. Since a better name doesn't make them the genuine church, neither does a sectarian name change the fact that they are sanctified in Christ Jesus, redeemed by His blood to be saints, with all those who call on His name.
The only thing that having a better name gets you is envy, strife, and reveals that you are babe in Christ and walking as men.