It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. As a puffed-up spirit caused their strifes, Paul humbles them by convicting them of sin. The best community may have an individu... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. PUFFED UP - with your own wisdom and the eloquence of your favourite teachers, when ye ought to be 'mourning' at the scandal to religion by the incest. Paul mourned because the... [ Continue Reading ]
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, FOR I. Are YE not grieved? for I for my part have decided. AS ABSENT. So 'Aleph (') G f g. But A B C Delta, Vulgate, read 'being absent.' PRESENT... [ Continue Reading ]
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST - i:e., invested with His authority, as His earthly representative (, end). John this with 'when ye have been gathered together, and my... [ Continue Reading ]
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Besides excommunication (which the Corinthians had the power of), Paul delegates here to them his power as an inspired apostle, of inflicting corporeal disease or death i... [ Continue Reading ]
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Your glorying in your attachments and your teachers (), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly. A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP () - one bad member infects the whole churc... [ Continue Reading ]
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: OLD LEAVEN - the remnant of the "old" (Ephesians 4:22) paganish and natural corruption. The Jews used extreme care in searching their houses, and 'purging out'... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. NOT ... OLD LEAVEN - of our unconverted state. MALICE - the opposite of "sincerity," which allows no leaven of evil to be mixed up with... [ Continue Reading ]
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: I WROTE UNTO YOU IN AN LETTER - Greek, 'in THE letter:' a former one not now extant. That Paul does not refer to the present letter is clear, as no direction 'not to company with fornicators' occurs in the previous part; also the wo... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. Limitation of the prohibition, alluded to in . As in dissolute Corinth to 'company with no fornicators,' etc., would be almost to company with... [ Continue Reading ]
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. BUT NOW I HAVE WRITTEN - "now," not time; but, 'the case being so'-namely, that 't... [ Continue Reading ]
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? FOR. 'Ye might have known my meaning so; FOR,' etc. WHAT HAVE I TO DO. My concern is not with unbelievers outside, I referred to those within the Church. ALSO. Those within give me enough to do w... [ Continue Reading ]
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. GOD JUDGETH. - g, Vulgate, read 'will judge.' God is the Judge of the pagan, not we (Romans 2:12). Paul prepares the way for the censure of their going to law with saints before pagan tribunals, i... [ Continue Reading ]