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Verse 1 Corinthians 6:16. _HE THAT IS JOINED TO A HARLOT IS ONE BODY_]
In _Sohar_ _Genes_., fol. 19, we have these remarkable words:
_Whosoever_ _connects himself with another man's wife, does in effe...
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KNOW YE NOT ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness.
It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes
at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the member...
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CHAPTER 6
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1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1).
2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy
Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8).
Instead of settling t...
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IMPURITY IS NO TRUE EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, BUT INCOMPATIBLE
WITH THE BELIEVER'S UNION WITH CHRIST. The special case of incest and
the warnings against impurity in the last section (1 Corinth...
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True, all things are allowed to me; but all things are not good for
me. All things are allowed to me, but I will not allow any thing to
get control of me. Foods were made for the stomach and the stoma...
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THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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WHAT?. Greek.
JOINED. Greek. _kollao._ See Luke 15:15.
FOR TWO, &C. The quotation is from Genesis 2:24 (Septuagint)
ONE. into (Greek. _eis_. App-104.) one. Compare Matthew 19:5, where th
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THE GUILT OF THE FORNICATOR
In this and the next two verses the main argument of the rest of the
Epistle is sketched out, though not in the order afterwards followed
by the Apostle. At present he take...
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Ἢ ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ. Not _what_? as in A.V. Rather, ‘OR do ye
not know,’ introducing a fresh consideration to that in the last
verse.
ΕἸΣ ΣΆΡΚΑ ΜΊΑΝ. No words could more plainly shew than
these and the word...
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_CHRISTIANS ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-20:_ God has
purchased Christians with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter
1:18-19) We have been bought with blood, therefore we belong t...
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ΟΎΚ (G3756) отр. вводит вопрос, на который
ожидается утвердительный ответ,
ΚΟΛΛΏΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. part. от_ ΚΟΛΛΆΩ (G2853)
объединять, собирать вместе. Dir. _med._,
соединяться. Это слово относится...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Defilers Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All
things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslave...
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Fornicators are "members of an harlot" (1 Corinthians 6:15).
JOINED - by carnal, sexual i...
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1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense
of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule
it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
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6:16 flesh. (a-24) Lit. 'to ( _ eis_ ) one flesh.' In English 'shall'
or 'shall become' is the nearest in sense. It corresponds to the
Hebrew of Genesis 2:24 . _ Eis_ is left out when he says 'one Sp...
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SAITH HE] i.e. God in Scripture (Genesis 2:24).
ONE FLESH] The words spoken first of marriage are applied here to an
unholy union. St. Paul does not place the two on the same plane, but
only points o...
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PARAPHRASE. 'It is true as you suggest that “all things are
lawful” but this is not an absolute but a relative principle. You
must not argue that the existence of appetites proves the lawfulness
of th...
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_(C) 6:1-11. CHRISTIANS AND LITIGATION_
St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about
ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by
rumours he had heard; and...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8
V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another
Christian. You may take your pro...
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WHAT? — As if some one might question and resent the strength of the
previous words, and wish them “watered down.” “Do you not know
that my strong assertion is true? It is not merely my statement; it...
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CHAPTER 10
FORNICATION
IN remonstrating with the Corinthians for their litigiousness, Paul
was forcibly reminded how imperfectly his converts understood the
moral requirements of the kingdom of God....
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justifies the strong expression πόρνης μέλη (1 Corinthians
6:15), implying that the alliance is a kind of incorporation: “Or
(if you object to my putting it in this way), do you not know that he
who c...
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1 Corinthians 6:15-17 unfold in its repulsiveness, by vivid concrete
presentment, the opposition between the two claimants for bodily
service already contrasted: the rival of Christ is ἡ πόρνη!
“Or (i...
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§ 19. THE SANCTITY OF THE BODY, The laxity of morals distinguishing
the Cor [964] Church was in some instances defended, or half-excused,
by appealing to the principle of _Christian liberty_, which P....
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KEEPING THE BODY HOLY
1 Corinthians 6:12
It is interesting to compare 1 Corinthians 6:12 with 1 Corinthians
10:23. There are four clauses in each verse, three of which are
similar,
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The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church
were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we
are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...
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Christians Are A Part of Christ's Body
Christians are free to do anything that is not sinful. The Corinthians
had misapplied their freedom to sinful activities. As God's inspired
spokesman, Paul said...
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(12) What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
body? for (i) two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
(12) A proof of the same argument: a harlot and Christ are completely
contrary, so...
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“Or know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body
[with her]; for the two, it is said, shall be one flesh. 17. And he
that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit [with Him].”
The ἤ, _or_...
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IV. IMPURITY. 6:12-20.
It has sometimes been imagined that the apostle was here resuming the
subject of chap. 5, from which he had allowed himself to be diverted
by the question of lawsuits. But we ha...
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(15) Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I
then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a
harlot? God forbid. (16) What? know ye not that he which is joined...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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16._Know ye not that he that is joined to an harlot _He brings out
more fully the greatness of the injury that is done to Christ by the
man that has intercourse with an harlot; for he becomes _one bod...
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1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful
that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be
incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...
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WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT HE WHICH IS JOINED TO AN HARLOT,.... Not in
marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean embraces, is one body
with her
FOR TWO ("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the S...
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Ver. 16. _Is one body_] By a most strict but vicious and infamous bond
(saith an interpreter...
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_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ_ Mystically
united to him, as well as your souls, if you are his true disciples,
as you profess to be. _Shall I then take the members of Christ_...
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WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT HE WHICH IS JOINED TO AN HARLOT IS ONE BODY?
FOR TWO, SAITH HE, SHALL BE ONE FLESH....
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An earnest warning against immorality:...
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In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the
Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is
singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who
had...
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OR KNOW YE NOT THAT HE THAT IS JOINED TO. HARLOT IS ONE BODY? FOR, THE
TWAIN, SAITH HE, SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
'is one body' -'the fornicative act makes one single body of the two'
(Lenski p. 263)...
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12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All
things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes.
There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which...
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The conjunction of the husband and wife, mentioned GENESIS 2:24, and
the conjunction of the fornicator and the harlot, differ not as to the
species of the act, only as to the morality of it; the forme...
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Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? [as if
in Satanic marriage] _for, The twain, saith he_ [Genesis 2:24; Matthew
19:5; Ephesians 5:31], _shall become one flesh_....
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Et quod matrimonium non dicat fomicationem, ostendit eo, quod
subiungit: "An nescitis, quod qui adhaeret meretrici, unum est corpus?
"[224]...
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1 Corinthians 6:16 Or G2228 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754
joined G2853 (G5746) harlot G4204 is
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‘Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ. Shall I
then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a
prostitute? May it not be. Or do you not know that he who is joined in...
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1 Corinthians 6:16. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT HE THAT IS JOINED TO A
HARLOT IS ONE BODY! FOR THE TWAIN, SAITH HE, SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
As the sexes, by marriage, become one natural life, an abhorred u...
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From wrong-doing in one particular the apostle is now led to speak of
wrong-doing in its widest sense, but emphatically of that form of it
already dealt with in part....
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ONE BODY
(εν σωμα). With the harlot. That union is for the harlot the
same as with the wife. The words quoted from Genesis 2:24 describing
the sexual union of husband and wife, are also quoted and e...
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CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of
the body. The body the Lord's temple.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit.
CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...
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1 Corinthians 6:1. _Dare any of you go to law before the unjust?_ He
whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour
wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause is...
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THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE BODY. Paul quotes Genesis 2:24 to prove that
the man and the prostitute become physically one in the sex act. [This
does not mean that the man and the prostitute are now marrie...
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_Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats._
CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO THE BODY
The apostle here states, perhaps in answer to a question on the
subject, that there is a limitation to Christian...
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_All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient._
THE LAWFUL AND THE EXPEDIENT
I. What is lawful for us in life? All things indifferent, _i.e._, not
evil in themselves. The Christian h...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:16 Sexual union has a
spiritual component. That means sexual activity outside marriage is a
sin against Christ (v. 1 Corinthians 6:15) and
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 Some Corinthian Christians
were engaging in sex with prostitutes. Paul reminds them that the
bodies of Christians are one with the resurrected Christ and that,...
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CHAPTER 6
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and
reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the
heathen judges, and he declares...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians 6:12. LAWFUL.—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23. To be
put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own word
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 6:1
_Litigation before heathen courts forbidden._
1 CORINTHIANS 6:1
DARE ANY OF YOU? rather, _Dare any one of you? _It is in St. Paul's
view an _audacious _defiance of
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Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother
before the pagan courts.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saint...
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Ephesians 5:31; Genesis 2:24; Genesis 34:31; Genesis 38:15; Genesis
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He that is joined [ο κ ο λ λ ω μ ε ν ο ς]. See on Luke
14:15. Compare Aeschylus : "The family has been glued [κ ε κ ο λ
λ η τ α ι] to misfortune" (" Agamemnon, " 1543). The verb is used
Genesis 2:24,...
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THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be
shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...
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Genesis 2:24....
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The sense is, "That as wedlock makes man and wife one body lawfully,
so fornication makes the man and the harlot one body sinfully; all the
difference is in the morality of the act, but the species or...