Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 14:36

36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? .

These words look like a smart reflection upon divers Members of this Church of Corinth, who thought themselves wiser than all the World besides; and the Apostle might foresee, that out of the high opinion they had of themselves, they would much contemn and slight his directions. He therefore asks them, what they thought of themselves? Whether they thought themselves the only Churches in the World, or were the first that believed in Christ? so that the Gospel went out from them, and they might give Law to all Churches? There were Churches at Ierusalem, and in several other places, before there was any Church at Corinth, so as the Gospel came unto them from other Churches, and did not go out from them to other Churches.