This topic seems to have been suggested by the closing verses of the preceding chapter, about Christians having nothing to do with judging “them that are without.” ‘Yes (says the apostle), but what is this that I hear, that some of you are dragging “them that are within” before the tribunals of such... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:1. DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING A MATTER AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR, GO TO LAW BEFORE THE UNRIGHTEOUS, AND NOT BEFORE THE SAINTS? Excellently, says Bengel here, ‘by this grand word “Dare” does the apostle mark the injured majesty of the Christian name,' thus caused. Not without a special desig... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:2. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD? shall sit, after yourselves have been judged (Matthew 25:41), as Christ's assessors, in judgment on all others. This is not elsewhere expressly stated; but it is in accordance with Matthew 19:28, and is in strict analogy wit... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:3. KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? The word “angels” usually means the good ones, but here it is clearly the bad. HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE?... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:4. IF THEN YE HAVE TO JUDGE THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE, SET THEM TO JUDGE WHO ARE OF NO ACCOUNT IN THE CHURCH an ironical way of hinting that their differences were so petty that the poorest-witted among them were fit enough to deal with them. [1] [1] To view this as a question... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:5.... IS IT SO, THAT THERE IS NOT ONE WISE MAN AMONG YOU? WHO, ETC.: ‘Abounding in gifts, and boasting of your wisdom, are ye incompetent to settle your own small disputes?' The _principle_ of arbitration is here suggested; but _courts_ of arbitration are a modern invention.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:7.... WHY NOT RATHER TAKE WRONG? WHY NOT RATHER BE DEFRAUDED? like your Master, submitting to felt wrong (1 Peter 2:23; and see Matthew 5:40; Matthew 5:44; Romans 12:17; 1 Peter 2:19-20; Proverbs 20:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:9. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS (‘the wrong-doers') SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATOR, NOR IDOLATERS, whose religion was itself voluptuous, particularly at Corinth, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE given to voluptuous ease, encouraging... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:10. NOR THIEVES, ETC. 1 Corinthians 6:11. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. Not all but only “some” of his converts are thus spoken of; and when he says of them that “such” they were, he simply means to describe morally the sink of vice “he horrible pit, the miry clay” out of which they ha... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:12. ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT NOT ALL THINGS ARE EXPEDIENT. ‘In things indifferent, such as the eating of meats forbidden under the ceremonial law, the Gospel has made all things clean, and I can use my liberty without scruple; but there are some of tender conscience who are... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:13. HEATS FOR THE BELLY, AND THE BELLY FOR MEATS: BUT GOD SHALL DESTROY BOTH IT AND THEM: ‘Meats, no doubt, are indifferent, but since both they and the mortal body to which they minister are destined to perish in their corruptibility, scorn to become enslaved to them.' NOW THE BOD... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:14. AND GOD BOTH RAISED THE LORD, AND WILL RAISE UP [1] US THROUGH HIS POWER see ROMANS 8:11. As the body of Christ was endued at His resurrection with imperishable properties, and stamped with a spiritual and celestial character, so will it be with all that are His (chap. 1 Corinthi... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:15. KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? He expects this to be recognised as a first principle (see Ephesians 5:30). SHALL I THEN TAKE AWAY [1] THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? ‘alienate' them from their proper use. AND MAKE THEM, etc. [1] ἀ ρας... [ Continue Reading ]
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 unity of nature is formed by the action here referred to.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:17. BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT becomes by that union partaker of a life in common with the Lord, spiritual and imperishable.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:18. FLEE FORNICATION. Note the studiously curt and stringent language (as that in 1 Corinthians 5:13), and not for nothing is “flight” here urged. This was what Joseph did (Genesis 39:12), and what the great mediaeval schoolman Thomas Aquinas, when a youth, literally did in exactly s... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:19. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN you (see on chap. 1 Corinthians 2:11), WHICH YE HAVE FROM GOD as His gift through the risen Saviour, and whose presence in you is the presence of God Himself, by reason of their essential oneness: “Will... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Corinthians 6:20. FOR YE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE [1] “with precious blood, even Christ's,” says Peter (1 Peter 1:19). Is it so? then, as the purchased property of another, ye are at no liberty to dispose of yourselves for uses of your own. GLORIFY GOD THEREFORE IN YOUR BODY. The words of the re... [ Continue Reading ]