Paul preached Christ in all his positions, but he especially dwelt upon him as the crucified one. The apostle first preached his great Master’s person— Jesus Christ.

There was no equivocation about Paul when he spoke of Jesus of Nazareth. He held him up as a real man… There was no hesitation about his Godhead either… And as to his crucifixion he put it in the front and made it the main point.

He did not say, ‘Well, we will leave the matter of his death for a time,’ but he gloried in the crucified Redeemer, the dead and buried Christ, the sin-bearing Christ, the Christ made a curse for us, as it is written, ‘Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.’

This was the subject to which he confined himself at Corinth: beyond this he would not stir an inch. —Charles Spurgeon