Observe here, 1. The persons, or the people blamed. The famous church of Corinth has fornication, nay, incest, charged upon her. Heinous sins may creep into the best and purest churches, yet doth not. church presently cease to be. true church; nor are Christians presently to separate from the commun... [ Continue Reading ]
Here note, 1. The fault charged upon the church: they did not censure this offender, therefore the apostle censures them. The tolerating of scandalous sins in particular members of churches, is. thing very displeasing to Christ, and offensive to his ministers. Note, 2. As they did not censure the o... [ Continue Reading ]
As if the apostle had said, "Although. am absent from you in body, yet in mind and consent. am present with you, and also by my discerning spirit, by which. am enabled to discern things done at. distance; and accordingly by the authority and power given me by our Lord Jesus Christ,. have already det... [ Continue Reading ]
As if the apostle had said, "You Corinthians are prone to pride yourselves, in the numbers of wise and wealthy men that are found among you; you glory that Corinth is the eye of Greece, and Greece the eye of the world; but what do you glory in this for? When you have such. scandalous person among yo... [ Continue Reading ]
Here our apostle tells them, that he had written to them in this, or some other epistle, before he was fully acquainted with their affairs, not to company with fornicators; that is, to shun all intimacy and familiarity with infidels: but he did not mean or intend that they should have no converse or... [ Continue Reading ]
As if the apostle had said, "My jurisdiction extendeth not to the heathens,. have nothing to do to judge and censure them that are without the church: but such as are within the pale of the church, your own members, who own your jurisdiction, these you have an undoubted right and power to judge, lea... [ Continue Reading ]