{Now this I mean} (leg(9320)de touto). Explanatory use of
leg(935c). Each has his party leader. Apoll(935c) is genitive of
Apoll(9373) ( Ac 18:24 ), probably abbreviation of Apoll(936e)ius as
seen in Codex Bezae for  Ac 18:24 . See on Acts for discussion of
this "eloquent Alexandrian" (Ellicott), whose philosophical and
oratorical preaching was in contrast "with the studied plainness"
of Paul ( 1Co 2:1  2Co 10:10 ). People naturally have different
tastes about styles of preaching and that is well, but Apollos
refused to be a party to this strife and soon returned to Ephesus
and refused to go back to Corinth ( 1Co 16:12 ). C(8870)h(835c) is the
genitive of C(8870)h(8373), the Aramaic name given Simon by Jesus ( Joh
1:42 ), Petros in Greek. Except in  Ga 2:7,8  Paul calls him
Cephas. He had already taken his stand with Paul in the Jerusalem
Conference ( Ac 15:7-11  Ga 2:7-10 ). Paul had to rebuke him at
Antioch for his timidity because of the Judaizers ( Ga 2:11-14 ),
but, in spite of Baur's theory, there is no evidence of a schism
in doctrine between Paul and Peter. If  2Pe 3:15f.  be accepted
as genuine, as I do, there is proof of cordial relations between
them and  1Co 9:5  points in the same direction. But there is no
evidence that Peter himself visited Corinth. Judaizers came and
pitted Peter against Paul to the Corinthian Church on the basis
of Paul's rebuke of Peter in Antioch. These Judaizers made bitter
personal attacks on Paul in return for their defeat at the
Jerusalem Conference. So a third faction was formed by the use of
Peter's name as the really orthodox wing of the church, the
gospel of the circumcision. {And I of Christ} (eg(9320)de
Christou). Still a fourth faction in recoil from the partisan
use of Paul, Apollos, Cephas, with "a spiritually proud
utterance" (Ellicott) that assumes a relation to Christ not true
of the others. "Those who used this cry arrogated the common
watchword as their _peculium_" (Findlay). This partisan use of
the name of Christ may have been made in the name of unity
against the other three factions, but it merely added another
party to those existing. In scouting the names of the other
leaders they lowered the name and rank of Christ to their level.