<p>14:36 <i>What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or came it to you alone?</i>- God's word &quot;went out&quot; from those inspired by His Spirit. They were not spiritual (3:1), and their female prophets were not really speaking God's word. God's true word had gone out to many apart from the Corinthians, and they should therefore speak in accordance with it; rather than pleading they were some special case. Paul's comment about &quot;in all churches&quot; (:33) likewise suggests that Corinth were claiming they were a special, unique case- and could therefore do as they wished. This kind of reasoning is often encountered, on an individual and church level. But Paul is saying that God's word is universal in reference and did not come to them &quot;alone&quot; as some unique revelation. He has structured his sentences to allude to how the word of God &quot;went out&quot; from Jerusalem- not Corinth. The word of God going out is used to refer to preaching in 1 Thess. 1:8.</p>