1 Corinthians 5:1
Fornication — The original word implies criminal conversation of any kind whatever. His father's wife — While his father was alive.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fornication — The original word implies criminal conversation of any kind whatever. His father's wife — While his father was alive.... [ Continue Reading ]
Are ye puffed up? Should ye not rather have mourned — Have solemnly humbled yourselves, and at that time of solemn mourning have expelled that notorious sinner from your communion?... [ Continue Reading ]
I verily, as present in spirit — Having a full (it seems, a miraculous) view of the whole fact. Have already, as if I were actually present, judged him who hath so scandalously done this.... [ Continue Reading ]
And my spirit — Present with you. With the power of the Lord Jesus Christ — To confirm my sentence.... [ Continue Reading ]
To deliver such an one — This was the highest degree of punishment in the Christian church; and we may observe, the passing this sentence was the act of the apostle, not of the Corinthians. To Satan — Who was usually permitted, in such cases, to inflict pain or sickness on the offender. For the dest... [ Continue Reading ]
Your glorying — Either in your gifts or prosperity, at such a time as this, is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven — One sin, or one sinner. Leaveneth the whole lump — Diffuses guilt and infection through the whole congregation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Purge out therefore the old leaven — Both of sinners and of sin. That ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened — That is, that being unleavened ye may be a new lump, holy unto the Lord. For our passover is slain for us — The Jewish passover, about the time of which this epistle was wrote, 1 Corint... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore let us keep the feast — Let us feed on him by faith. Here is a plain allusion to the Lord's supper, which was instituted in the room of the passover. Not with the old leaven — Of heathenism or Judaism. Malignity is stubbornness in evil. Sincerity and truth seem to be put here for the whole... [ Continue Reading ]
I wrote to you in a former epistle — And, doubtless, both St. Paul and the other apostles wrote many things which are not extant now. Not to converse — Familiarly; not to contract any intimacy or acquaintance with them, more than is absolutely necessary.... [ Continue Reading ]
But I did not mean that you should altogether refrain from conversing with heathens, though they are guilty in some of these respects. Covetous, rapacious, idolaters — Sinners against themselves, their neighbour, God. For then ye must go out of the world — Then all civil commerce must cease. So that... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is named a brother — That is, a Christian; especially if a member of the same congregation. Rapacious — Guilty of oppression, extortion, or any open injustice. No, not to eat with him — Which is the lowest degree of familiarity.... [ Continue Reading ]
I speak of Christians only. For what have I to do to judge heathens? But ye, as well as I, judge those of your own community.... [ Continue Reading ]
Them that are without God will judge — The passing sentence on these he hath reserved to himself. And ye will take away that wicked person — This properly belongs to you.... [ Continue Reading ]