Calvin on 1 Corinthians

“Those vices which prevailed at Corinth with which mercantile cities are wont to be particularly infested – luxury, pride vanity, effeminacy, insatiable covetousness, and ambition; so they had found their way even into the Church itself, so that the discipline was greatly relaxed.  Nay more, purity of doctrine had already begun to decline, so that the main article of religion – the resurrection of the dead – was called in question.  Yet amidst this great corruption in every department, they were satisfied with themselves, equally as though every thing had been on the best possible footing.  Such are Satan’s usual artifices.  If he cannot prevent the progress of doctrine, he creeps forward secretly to make an attack upon it: if he cannot by direct falsehoods suppress it, so as to prevent it from coming forth to light, he digs secret mines for its overthrow; and in time, if he cannot alienate men’s minds from it, he leads them by little and little to deviate from it.”