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. Ver. 1. _As is not so much as named_] To wit, without detestation. The apostle seems to allude to Antiochus Soter, who married h... [ 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. Ver. 2. _And ye are puffed up_] And yet ye are puffed up (so Piscator reads it), viz. with your spiritual gifts, and your brave teachers; whereas you have more cause to be cast do... [ 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, Ver. 3. _Have judged already, &c._] _q.d._ I by mine apostolic authority do excommunicate him. And yet how fiercely doth learned Erastus contend with... [ 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, Ver. 4. _With the power of our Lord_] Promised,Matthew 18:18,20. This makes it to be a heavy case to be rightly excommunicated. Indeed it may happen that Jonah shall be cast... [ 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. Ver. 5. _To deliver such an one to Satan_] That he may learn not to blaspheme, that is, not to cause others to blaspheme or speak evil of the good way of God, for his flagi... [ Continue Reading ]
Your glorying _is_ not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Ver. 6. _Your glorying is not good_] It is the height of wickedness to glory in wickedness, as Lamech, Genesis 4:23,24, and Alexander Pheraeus, who consecrated the javelin wherewith he had slain Polyphron. Prota... [ 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: Ver. 7. _As ye are unleavened_] viz. In part sanctified. Every new man is two men. Many a one that is merry in company hath a shrew at home; so have the best their... [ 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. Ver. 8. _Let us keep the feast_] The benefits we receive by Christ should crown the calendar of our lives with continual festivals; yea, ma... [ Continue Reading ]
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Ver. 9. _Not to company with fornicators_] Dion Chrysostom saith, that Corinth was the most luxurious and lascivious city in the world, πολιν επαφροδιτατην. Strabo saith, that Venus had a most stately temple there, that was kept by mor... [ 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. Ver. 10. _Yet not altogether, &c._] Here he lets them know that in that former epistle (not extant now) he meant not that they should wholly s... [ 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. Ver. 11. _Not to keep company_] Gr. συναναμιγνυσθαι, not to be mingled with them. The... [ Continue Reading ]
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? Ver. 12. _Them also that are without_] These come not under the verge of Church censures,Revelation 22:15 .... [ Continue Reading ]
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Ver. 13. _Therefore put away_] Gr. εξαρειτε, Ye will put away, _q.d._ I hope ye will, though hitherto ye have not. Soft words and hard arguments do soonest prevail, especially when we reprove or admo... [ Continue Reading ]